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Archive for 'October 2007'

The New Global Village

We’ve upgraded the Global Village to the latest and greatest version of the underlying software. There are many, many new features to this upgrade including an entire private messaging system; updated control panels for users, moderators, and admins; attachment support; better search; and improved performance through caching.
During this upgrade, we discovered a bug in our [...]

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PropertyMaps Expands into Southern Illinois

We’ve added several thousand more properties to our Illinois real estate portfolio by expanding into the southern part of the state. We have more activity planned for Illinois and surrounding states so stay tuned…

PropertyMaps Expands into Southern Illinois

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Grab A PropertyMaps Banner!

We’ve set up a new developers section where you can grab a PropertyMaps banner. We have a ton of great banners to choose from so if you find PropertyMaps useful, show some love and put a banner on your site.

One of Our Many Banners

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PropertyMaps Expands in North Carolina with the Addition of Charlotte Area

24,000+ more properties added to the Charlotte area of North Carolina. Charlotte is the largest city in the state, so we are very pleased to enter this market. This puts at over 36,000 properties for NC. We have more areas for this state in the pipeline so if we haven’t covered your area yet, please [...]

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The Property Cloud

We are quietly announcing a new feature - “The Property Cloud”. This provides yet another way for our users to browse for real estate in our ever growing database. On the top navigation bar, click on “Property Cloud” to see it in action. I know, this is/was the hottest fad in “web 2.0″ companies when [...]

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A Couple New Minor Features Added

We’ve added a couple minor features to the site in the last week that you may not have noticed. Here is a rundown:

Global Village (top/center) - We have rebranded our “Ask an Expert Forum” to “Global Village” to give it more appealing, intimate feel.
Developer Area (bottom/left) - A new area dedicated to webmasters, developers, and [...]

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Going on Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale

32,000+ parties (err, properties) were added to the Fort Lauderdale area. I’ll have to go check out some of the listings come spring break. This addition catapults Florida to the top of the chart with the most properties. Currently we have almost 150,000 listing in Florida alone. Now on to the other states…

Going on Spring [...]

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We’ve Made it to Arizona

The first of several areas of Arizona has gone on the map. We added Tucson, with 10,000 or so properties for the area. More regions of Arizona will be online in the next couple weeks. You might also see that we have a few stragglers in other states such as Utah, New Mexico, and Montana. [...]

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East Bay, We’re Here!

Rounding out our coverage of the San Francisco area, we’ve put East Bay on the map with 17,000 properties. I have many fond memories of hanging out in Oakland with friends attending UC Berkeley. Berkeley was also were I got to experience Virtual Reality for the first time when it was the cool thing in [...]

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