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Free Neighborhood Boundary Data

Posted by eric.etkin on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 00:54

Zillow Labs recently announced free availability of their neighborhood boundary data sets. Coverage is currently available for 42 states. We have not yet had an opportunity to review the accuracy of these data sets, but thought it would be helpful to share these with our members.

http://www.zillow.com/labs/NeighborhoodBoundaries.htm

Here is the information published by Zillow.com

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Retail Chain Locator Tools

Posted by eric.etkin on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 04:18

Today I decided to follow up on a previous topic and see how retail LBS implementations stack up to one-another. In my quest for a Blu Ray player, I decided to browse at the public websites of several large retail chains and see what each of their respective websites could offer to a consumer seeking a specific product. The sites that i selected were circuitcity.com, walmart.com, and target.com.