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Okay, so the idea is this: an Android app that takes a set of criteria for what sort of real estate you're looking for – price, no. bedrooms, etc. – and uses its location-awareness to alert you to real estate within your area that matches your criteria. You could even set it to tell you about open houses so if you were driving past you could pop in. But I think it'd also just be handy to know these houses existed – for example, I like to go for the odd evening walk and it'd be handy to be able to say, "Hey, there's a nice house the next block over. I'll detour to have a look."

So anyway, if realestate.com.au wants to contract me to create said app, get in touch :D

Months before the iPhone was released, the web was on fire with hype and speculation. And a lot of drooling. People were going nuts about the idea of a touch screen phone that ran a stripped down version of a real operating system, and was basically a tiny computer. Mobile phones would be forever changed, etc etc. The nickname 'JesusPhone' was coined — which should give you some idea how much hype was generated.

And now Google has released the SDK and some UI videos of its upcoming mobile operating system. And it could be as game-changing as the iPhone is. But where's the hype? The blogosphere remains pretty quiet.

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