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Open Data and Real Estate

In our previous post “An Introduction to Open Data” we introduced the concept of the Open Data movement in all levels of government around the world. The basic idea is that governments are releasing libraries of timely, machine readable, and license-free data for public use. In this

An Introduction to Open Data

Local, state, and national governments all over the world have begun to participate in a movement known as Open Data. The idea behind Open Data is to let citizens, non-profits, and corporations have access to the public information collected or maintained by government. The number of governments

Google Profiles – Help People Find You Online

Did you know? Google now has a profile tool that lets you as a user create a basic portal page that can link to your information, websites, and media (such as photos.) This profile is not only shared across Google’s many services (if you use them) but more

Part 2 of What is Twitter Thing Anyway? Tips and Search

In part one of this series on Twitter we discussed what it is, how it is used, and ways it can help your social networking presence. Today, we’ll be quickly outlining a few tips to better interact with, and utilize Twitter. Tips: Interacting When replying or messaging

So what’s this Twitter thing anyway?

According to Wikipedia: “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered