Time to 'mash up'?

Don't happy with the functionality on a particular site? Why not create an improvement on top of the existing service? This is called 'mash up'. The CNET definition being 'Mash-ups' - "that let people combine information from different Web sites are reshaping the Web experience, allowing independent developers to better control and customize the information consumers can get".

A 'mash-up' is based on APIs to interact with a site and "to pull data from Web sites and to combine it with another information source to create something new".

Links in the area:
"From web page to web platform"  CNET article, 16th august 2005

Flashmaps A great site using Google Maps
Click here to find out where I live...

Winerybound.com  Contains listings of all the wineries in the U.S.
On the first page, click on the link 'view all wineries' and you will see the 'mash-up'.

Keep searching real estate blogs

Check out this link for better blogs then this one!  ;-)
The best I have found so far is Property Grunt who describe his one as "a blog by a soldier in the trenches of the Manhattan real estate war presenting information and commentary on the market."

The Digie awards

Each year the organizers behind Realcomm award the people "who are recognized for being among the most innovative individuals and organizations in the Commercial Real Estate industry".

The list
Congratulations Chris at Calvis!

Realcomm - A Swedish perspective

The last week has been extremely busy. First of the Realcomm conference and then meetings and vacation in San Francisco.

A few words on the Realcomm conference.

1. Being the best place for someone to see what is going on in the area of Real Estate Technology it surprise me how few people that are attending this show. 

2. The overall feeling about this years conference is that it is down to everyday hardwork to gain success. There is no big easy shortcuts.

3. Interesting discussions in the field of electronic Market Exchanges. However, it's my oponion that that UK is far ahead the US in this fielad.

4. Most interesting boot? I vote for Treesoft (www.treesoft.com) and their DCF module. I believe this area of solutions need a few more suppliers.

5. The gadget of the week - Verizon's handheld EV6600
Now we're talking! Perfect size, QWERTY and much more. Could we have that one with 3G and WiFi in Sweden, please...  ;-)

The question is, will this ever be avaliable on the Swedish market?

Surfing the clouds

This entry is added at 10 000 meters on a SAS flight from Stockholm to Chicago! That's inflight enternainment. Keep up the good works SAS.