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Thousands of fans packed Pioneer Square in downtown Portland at 1am last night to see and hear comedian Dave Chappelle perform. Later dubbed “Davestock” by some in the crowd, the event was a truly remarkable night. The evening unfolded something like this.

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Dave Chappelle in Portland – A Marketing Lesson For All of Us

Apture is one of the coolest plugins I’ve stumbled across in a long while. It allows you to instantly add rich, dimensional media to your blog or website by integrating text, images, video, maps, music and much more from over 50 sources; including Wikipedia, Flickr, NY Times, YouTube, Twitter and many others. In the data rich environment of the Web that we now all live in, for many of us the big challenge is finding a way to present all the great new content we have at our fingertips on a web site.

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Apture Lets You Create Rich Information Widgets

Redfin Profitable

Says CEO Glenn Kelman, via Techcrunch …the run rate is around $15 million. 2007 revenues were $5 million, 2006 revenues were $1 million. Congrats to all the folks at Redfin.

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Redfin Profitable

Google Maps Wins!

In my post New Firefox Brings Location to the Browser , I asked the following question around the new browser’s location awareness capability. So the race is on - which will be the first site to implement this feature

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Google Maps Wins!

Realogy brand Better Homes and Gardens launched its revamped web site . Lots of new content, including a revamped video section and brand new video platform (provided by Brightcove). All very cool and it looks great

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BHG Gives Great Search but Broken Results?

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything coming out of the Googleplex around its moves in the real estate space. And now, we wait no longer. On the Google LatLong blog today, Google has announced that they have rolled out vast improvements in the way that they handled real estate searches in their index

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Google Gets Serious About Real Estate Search

New Firefox Brings Location to the Browser

Location awareness is one of the killer features in the new iPhone.

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New Firefox Brings Location to the Browser

Looking for Hyperlocal Content?

Outside.in has you covered. They have just launched a new product called  Outside.in for Publishers - what they’re calling “an out-of-the-box hyperlocal news section for your website”.

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Looking for Hyperlocal Content?

WellcomeMat Brings Local Video to Your TV

6 months ago I gave up my cable TV subscription. How

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WellcomeMat Brings Local Video to Your TV

Friday Fun: Augmented Reality Nearly Here

A nice demonstration of a visual navigation app being developed by Occipital. The app searches for what you’re looking for, plots it inside geo-space and then provides you with directions and a preview of how to get there.

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Friday Fun: Augmented Reality Nearly Here

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