We are happy to announce that Lance Johnson of Tracy, California won a $250 gift certificate to amazon.com in our first sweepstakes. Here is a photo of Lance and his daughter Kylee:
Lance told us that he didn’t waste any time in using his gift certificate in this holiday buying season. The sweepstakes ran between November 21st and November 30th. Over the course of that week, 275 players were automatically entered into the sweepstakes by accumulating 25,000 or more points while one person wrote in via ’snail mail’. We would like to give special shout out to the top two point earners ‘Eric’ and ‘Shapan78′ for earning 3.1 million and 2.9 million points respectively. Great work!
We have a sweepstakes going on now that will end on New Year’s Eve. The winner will receive a $250 amazon.com gift certificate. Head to Realius.com to play. Once you accrue 25,000 points, you will be automatically entered to win. We will announce the winner in January.
Are any of you wondering where Tracy, California is? Google maps are great:
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In early November, Marc Davison and Brian Boero over at 1000watt consulting published their view of the real estate 2.0 universe. From blogs to maps to brokerages, they have an excellent read on what is going on in the market. We are pleased to be included in this esteemed crowd of real estate innovators.
Happy Geography Awareness Week! Thanks to Ronald Reagan, the third week in November is Geography Awareness Week. At this point in the post, it is only fair for me to disclose that I was a geography major. Over the past few years, tools like Google Maps and Google Earth have made geographic information available and meaningful to the masses on an unprecedented scale. Everyday there are new mashups to check out. Keep your eye on Google Maps Mania to see the latest and greatest Google Maps mashups. Get involved yourself at Geocommons.com, where you can upload geographic data, make and share maps. If you have a gripe with a neighbor and you’d like get that off your chest, head over to Rotten Neighbor where you can upload rants about neighbors to their exact residences on a map. If you would like to see hyper-local news by browsing a map, check out Yourstreet.com.
We recognize the integral role that spatial and economic context plays in the valuation of real estate. When asking a player what she thinks a home is worth in our first game, we provide price points of local, recent comparable sales. We put that data in a geographic context by mapping the locations of those recent sales. Check out a screenshot from the game. Each comparable sale in the table is show as a red house on the map.
Click here try out the game in the Oakland/Berkely area of Northern California!
6:30 AM is not prime time, but thanks to the internet late sleepers can see the spot that San Francisco KRON ran on Realius and a couple other new companies covered at the Techcrunch40 conference.