Congrats to Tulia (Trulia.com) , a cool company that has been on my radar screen for a long time now.
The company, focused on the real estate industry is also very into mapping, Geo visualization and geospatial technology, something that any real estate centric firm should embrace in my mind, after all, real estate is all about location and geography, plain and simple! Trulia has a fantastic web service accompanied by a terrific mobile app, and brings it all together with terrific web2.0 services.
Today the company announced it has acquired a company called Movity (see movity.com) – honestly, I wasn’t familiar with Movity prior to today and I’m unsure how I’ve missed out on them. When I read this quick "bio" descibing Movity I was moved to quickly check them out and dig up more info… check this out… The team includes Eric Wu, co-founder of RentWiki.com, Sha Hwang, design technologist from Stamen Design, Vaughn Koch, engineering manager from Expedia/Bing, and Zain Memon, a contributor to the open-source framework Django. Are you as impresed as I was?? You should be…
Details of the deal can be found on the Trulia blog (See HERE) as well as snippets on Twitter @Trulia and @Movity. To get an idea of where Trulia might be going with the technology enabled by Movity, check out WeePlaces.com and incredible service that enables foursquare users to quickly create a time-lapse animation of their check-ins and then share via facebook and Twitter… I’m sure this is just a sampling of what’s to come. Please note, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that I could also create a similar time-lapse animation using the GeoCommons.com Maker! service. My history as provided by WeePlaces is shown below
Glenn Letham’s Checkins by WeePlaces.com – Check out where I’ve been: http://www.weeplaces.com/glenn-letham/.