{"id":1668,"date":"2007-07-17T07:37:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T14:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2007-07-17T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T18:22:17","slug":"for-pure-home-search-terabitz-puts-all-the-cards-on-the-table-and-all-the-icons-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1668\/for-pure-home-search-terabitz-puts-all-the-cards-on-the-table-and-all-the-icons-on-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"For pure home search, Terabitz puts all the cards on the table and all the icons on the map"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When first I read about Terabitz<\/a> this morning, I was prepared to make fun of it. It looks and “plays” like an on-line video game. Instead of a simple check-box-based user-interface on top of a map, you drag out icons for the types of searches you want to run, then build a mashed-up map like the one shown above from the results. My guess is that the intent is artificially to limit the number of things you search for at one time, but the overall effect is at least as fun as an on-line video game.<\/p>\n

From VentureBeat:<\/a><\/p>\n

Terabitz is launching a comprehensive site for home buyers wanting to organizing and map information about their prospective homes.<\/p>\n

Think of it as a cross between a personal homepage (like iGoogle or Netvibes, for example) and a real estate information site (like Trulia or Zillow).<\/p>\n

You can drag and drop housing information from menu bars into a central dashboard with a set of data displays. With one click, you can map this data using the site’s Google Maps mashup.<\/p>\n

Besides for-sale listings, there’s information like average local mortgage rates, average rental fees and other real estate information.<\/p>\n

You can also find out all sorts of good things about a place that are harder to quantify, like nearby restaurants, libraries, schools, coffee shops. Even the FBI’s crime — and specifically sex offender — database gets included.<\/p>\n

This non real estate data is what sets Terabitz, of Palo Alto, Calif. apart from sites like Zillow and Trulia, which also offer home profile pages that are limited mainly to real estate data.<\/p>\n

You can customize your own page of data widgets about your prospective home. You can also make an image of your data collection and share it with other users or email to friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More from John Cook’s Venture Blog:<\/a><\/p>\n

Yet another startup company is entering the online real estate category. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Terabitz — backed with $10 million in funding from Tudor Capital and originally conceived by 17-year-old Kamran Munshi — is attempting to create a site that will help home buyers or apartment hunters manage the process from beginning to end. Its Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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