Comments on: Techies converge to talk mashups

Around 300 people are expected for MashupCamp, the first gathering of developers and API providers to talk about mashups.

RentalHouses.com and Customized Google Maps

RentalHouses.com was one of the very first home rental websites of its kind to customize Google Maps for its searchers. Taking it one step further, property managers with houses for rent can also find mapping tools for rent comps, flyers, and more. Take a look at this site as well. Find houses for rent and home rentals using Google maps quickly.

[Johnny Mnemonic]

These are better

http://www.housingmaps.com/
http://www.foundcity.net/

RentalHouses.com and Google Maps

Rentalhouses.com was one of the very first to use Google maps and customize them for their searchers looking for houses for rent nationally. They also have created customized mapping tools for the property managers who have numerous home rentals. Check out this site as well.

[Johnny Mnemonic]

Thess are much better...

http://www.housingmaps.com/
http://www.foundcity.net/

[ahoppin]

Business Models

Re: "The real elephant in the room is what's the business model" -- the business model is clear in cases where a transaction results from the mashup, as it does in our on-demand merchandise business at GoodStorm: if the transaction is facilitated or improved in some way through the mashup, there is a measurable value that can be compensated. There's no reason at the end of the day that HousingMaps type mashups couldn't follow a similar compensation model. The biggest real estate brokers in New York, for example, are currently looking hard at opening "Labs" units that will pursue innovative ways to make their data and services more open and to allow third-party services and communities to add value to them. And smaller brokers in New York are looking at creating a network amongst themselves in order to realize the benefits of scale in aggregate while remaining independent.

[bigmacster]

Mashup business models reponse

Interesting re. smaller RE brokers wishing to use mashups to aggregate with others while maintaining independence - How do you see this working please? We service a small group in Australia (G'day :)