You may recall my write up of Transparensee a while ago, I liked the approach founder Steve Lavine took to “fuzzy” search of structured data. Today I spoke with Steve again and he showed me a demo of his technology working on a real estate database. It’s very much worth checking out, it’s a cool visualization of how to make the web more useful. Head here, then fill in a few of the variables – price, zip, etc. Steve suggests 60014 for the zip, I think that database (greater Chicago) is populated. Click “enhanced search.” The sliders are the cool part, as are the similar properties. This kind of technology had all kinds of applications….
