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Scrybe

Wow.  If Scrybe will sync with Entourage …  whoo-hooo!  Organization made simple and intuitive.  I have not seen another calendar app online or off that compares.  PaperSync – simple and useful!  I’ve signed up for the beta; I hope they pick me!

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Neighboroo

Fun with graphical display of data.  Thanks to TransparentRE.Crozet, Charlottesville, Palmyra.  29 North/Pantops area, Ruckersville, Waynesboro, StanardsvilleNote: apparently Neighboroo has not disclosed their data sources, but I did some quick checking to see how their data corresponds to some of the Census Data, and most of it is close.  Mapping is going to comprise a huge part of the next generation of real estate marketing.  This site is mighty cool.

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Local Realtor makes – good?

Via the Inman blog:Two recent disputes over domain names involve the same Virginia real estate broker, Patsy Strong (pictured). Strong first raised the ire of her former employer, Monticello Country Realtors Inc, when she refused to relinquish ownership of the domain name monticellocountryrealtors.com, which she had registered when she worked for the company. Strong then riled a competitor, Elizabeth “Betsy” Gunnels, by registering the domain names betsysellsfluvanna.com and betsysellsmonticello.com, which Gunnels said she was using on business cards and advertisements.I remember a property I was selling several years ago in Madison. The property would have had magnificent mountain views if only for the trees that were growing along the border of the property – on the neighbor’s land. One day I had occasion to meet the neighbor and we started talking about the trees. Turns out he didn’t like my clients (lucky he didn’t know me enough to like or dislike me). He had planted the trees about thirty years prior – just to be ornery. What he did wasn’t illegal, but it just wasn’t nice.

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