Zenyatta has many rivals in $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic [NY Daily News]
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Zenyatta ... "one of the best female runners ever" takes on the boys. Great article.
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RPR Madness! NAR unleashes national property database with Cyberhomes | 1000Watt Consulting
[What follows is my somewhat stream of consciousness take on today's events. This post is a beast. Interested in your thoughts. And please point out where you think I've missed the mark. More will follow.]
The NAR has taken over certain technology assets of Cyberhomes from LPS (formerly known as FNRES) in order to bring its RPR (Realtors Property Resource) project, as well as its consumer-facing play, HouseLogic, to market. To do this, they have created Realtors Property Resource, LLC – a wholly owned subsidiary of the NAR.
Certain LPS executives, including Cyberhomes GM Marty Frame, will be making the transition over to NAR/RPR. Frame will serve as the President of the new entity. Dale Ross, who was co-founder of MRIS, the nation’s largest MLS, will be CEO. LPS will also provide call center support and other services as part of the deal.
The RPR database will contain parcel information on nearly 150 million properties through a data license from LPS, which (along with First American) is one of the two major sources of public property data.
This is interesting news, but let’s back up a minute for those of you who have more well rounded lives than I (my fellow online RE junkies can skip down to my take on what this deal means).
Read the rest here.
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Zenyatta Work 10/31/2009
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Zenyatta's last workout before the big Breeders' Cup race.
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The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
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If you’re a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on.
This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek
, a cute little device built by Peek
that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won’t surf the web. It won’t make phone calls. It won’t support third party apps. But it most certainly does run Twitter.
You can get it in black. Or, if you want to show a little flair, you can get in in cyan.
For some crazy reason I wanted one. A friend bought me one that I will truly love forever(ish). But the company also sent me one. And while I may or may not need one TwitterPeek, I almost certainly don’t need two TwitterPeeks.
This is where you come in.
We’re giving one of these away to a TechCrunch reader. It’s the cool one, cyan, with lifetime service that costs $200. And it’s all yours. Just retweet this post and make sure to include the short URL link – http://bit.ly/3U2Yhy
– as well as the #crunch hashtag. Please only tweet the message once, anyone tweeting repeatedly will be disqualified. Tomorrow we’ll sort through all of the tweets and pick one randomly for the win. You’ll get the TweetPeek device in the mail, and we’ll throw in a TechCrunch tshirt. Even the postage is on us. But please note that in this case only U.S. readers are eligible, because the device only works in the U.S.
By the way, if this goes well and everyone doesn’t spazz out, we’ll do a giveaway every week. Next week we’ll give away a Droid if we can talk Motorola, Verizon or Google into paying for it. If you are a company that has a cool device befitting the refined tastes of a TechCrunch reader (as defined by us) and want to supply the goods, let us know in the comments or via tips@techcrunch.
Oh. And on an unrelated note, it’s unlikely we’ll be returning this test unit, Peek. Something, err, happened to it. I mean we lost it. Actually, it never arrived.
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The anatomy of determination.
The anatomy of determination
Posted Nov 4th, 2009 at 11:09 PM and seen 147 timesPaul Graham of Y Combinator published a great explanation the most important quality of an entrepreneur: “The Anatomy of Determination.” Here’s a quote from the post.
So here in sum is how determination seems to work: it consists of willfulness balanced with discipline, aimed by ambition. And fortunately at least two of these three qualities can be cultivated. You may be able to increase your strength of will somewhat; you can definitely learn self-discipline; and almost everyone is practically malnourished when it comes to ambition.If you think you’re an entrepreneur, you owe it to yourself, yourself, your family, your employees, your imvestors, and your customers to read this.
More help for Entrepreneurs.
By Guy Kawasaki.
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Fall color hiding on a creek in Maggie Valley.
Photo taken 11/05/09 on a beautiful Maggie Valley creek.
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