The real estate slump may still be helping to drag down the economy, but real-estate sites like Trulia and Zillow seem to be holding up just fine. In fact, the number of monthly unique visitors to Trulia has more than doubled to 2.4 million over the past year, according to comScore. Zillow, in contrast, remained steady at 1.9 million U.S. uniques in July.
The strength of these real estate sites in a down market makes sense since prospective buyers (those that are left) now have more time to look around and research their dream homes. Both Trulia and Zillow do a good job of letting you slice and dice your search by any number of variables (price, location, number of bedrooms, square footage, type of home). Unfortunately, neither one offers a way to filter out homes that suck.
Both also offer market stats, and additional information about local schools and such. Zillow perhaps has a few more bells and whistles, such as its famous Zestimate, which m...
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Prototype Extension: Dynamic Script Pattern SupportFrom: ajax-blog.com
Post Date: 2006-08-22 09:02:36
Cody Swann was working on a web application that was using the Dynamic Script Pattern , which Dojo has excellent support for , but Prototype didn’t.
Cody then extended Prototype to support ScriptSrcTransport similarly to how Dojo does it.
The code below support the Simple, Polling and JSONP and JSON Callbacks described in the Dojo book.
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more Qooxdoox releases version 0.6 RC1From: ajax-blog.com
Post Date: 2006-08-22 11:47:59
Qooxdoo (pronounced “cooks-do”) has released version 0.6 RC 1 . This framework has come a long way since our first post on it over a year ago. Qooxdoo is a LGPL javascript framework with a rich set of widgets and supports namespaces, events, drag and drop, and layouts. For a quick look, check out the demos (particularily the “at-a-glance demo” ), or go straight to the download page.
Details on this release:
widgets based on the on th...
more Facebook adds blog-like notes featureFrom: ajax-blog.com
Post Date: 2006-08-22 11:34:01
A week after winning applause across the blogosphere for taking the big step of opening up its API , social networking site Facebook today launched a new feature called notes - essentially a blogging tool.
The best thing about the new notes tool may be that users can syndicate the full contents of other blogs elsewhere onto their Facebook page and individual imported entries can be commented on in Facebook. Blog posts, or notes as the company prefers they are called, can be tagged ...
more Nimbuzz releases full featured mobile communication softwareFrom: ajax-blog.com
Post Date: 2006-08-22 14:12:12
Oliver over at MobileCrunch posted exclusive coverage this morning of a new free service called Nimbuzz that he believes could really shake up the mobile world. Users can IM with MSN and GoogleTalk users in individual and group chats, send SMS around the world for ten cents, leave and retrieve messages and call anywhere in the world for the price of a local call. Users can also send quick buzzes, or single rings, to each other for notification of something important. Nimbuzz communica...
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