All new! Now, when you go to PadMapper, mess around, leave to do other stuff, and then come back, PadMapper will be where you left it (with a few caveats, see below). This was probably the most requested feature for a long time, so I finally put the time in to implement it. Hopefully you [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Oodles of new sources
PadMapper can now claim to get content from thousands of sources, thanks to indexing of Oodle’s syndicated content. To go along with this, there’s a new filter to filter out listings of these various sites, if that’s what you wish. You may also notice now that there’s a “Source:” label on the preview bubble, to [...]
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New Filter Sliders
The venerable old circle button sliders with pop-up value bubbles that PadMapper started with were just retired, giving way to new ones with a few advantages.
Should be more IE friendly (the old range ones were hard to grab in IE7 to the point of being impossible to use, from what I’ve heard)
Easier to figure out current [...]
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PadMapper in LifeHacker’s Top 5 Apartment Search Sites
Wow… thanks LH!
Five Best Apartment Search Tools
There’s a poll on that page about which is best. If you vote for PadMapper, I’ll continue offering you this service for free. Actually, I’ll continue doing that regardless, but you should still vote.
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PadMapper hits Mashable
Yesterday, Mashable wrote a fine article covering PadMapper:
http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/padmapper/
Thanks guys!
The server has been seeing quite a bit more traffic than normal, so apologies if it feels slow to anyone (and I’d appreciate if you’d send feedback to padmapper@gmail.com if it feels slow).
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Official Launch
This marks the official launch of PadMapper.com. It’s been a long time coming, but the core experience is good enough now that it’s time to start letting the world know about PadMapper. As such, a press release went out this morning letting the press know about the launch, and there’s a 30 second TV commercial [...]
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What to bring to every NYC apartment viewing
I just found a great article about what to bring to every apartment viewing in NYC. This probably also applies to apartment viewing in other cities, but these are crucial in NYC, because the places are small, screwups are expensive, and it’s often somewhat high-pressure. Anyway, the article:
http://roxyturtle.blogspot.com/2008/10/bring-these-things-to-every-nyc.html
The short list (for explanations, check out the [...]
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New Partnership with Apartments.com
You may have noticed that a new filter appeared recently in the filters box – source. You can now hide Apartments.com listings, or Craigslist listings, if you like. Which brings me to a bigger announcement… there are now Apartments.com listings on PadMapper!
That’s the big thing I’ve been working on that I’ve alluded to in some [...]
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