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- Is HomeTrader Our Real Estate Site Saviour?January 6
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The company behind Condo Guide magazine has just launched HomeTrader.ca, a new web site (still in beta) that becomes the latest in a long line of online efforts to try to help us find a home to buy, sell or rent in the Toronto area.In the wake of the massive failure that is Realtor.ca (280 angry comments and counting), the market is still wide open for competitive offerings. But after giving HomeTrader a bit of a spin my initial take is that its shortcomings are consistent with what's plagued so many of the other sites - a lack of comprehensive data and bad usability.
- Radar: January 6, 2009January 6
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- Morning Brew: January 6, 2009January 6
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Photo: "Light Commute In Overdrive" by sniderscion, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond):
Can't we all just get along? Toronto's executive committee of city councillors attached some notable conditions on their support of the Yonge subway into York Region. Like $2.5 billion worth of notable conditions. The move also screams turf wars since the city is pushing its own Transit City plans in what inevitably will turn into petty bickering about who gets transit money first. Get ready for it: 416 versus 905 Transit Smackdown 2009!
April Fools! Oh, right, still January. Tell that to Thomas Noftall who appeared to win $135,000 on 4 Fruit Smash scratch-off lottery tickets, only to find out that the winning combos were a printing error... and he'll get nothing. I've got an uncle who gives scratch-offs with every present he ever gives and nobody ever wins, so
- Toronto's Forgotten Landmarks: Don Mount CourtJanuary 6
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As recently as a few months back, on the Eastern side of Toronto's Don River just North of Queen street, sat Don Mount Court. I actually happened upon this then-abandoned location tangentially while scouting an infamous derelict 'gentleman's club' to the South of the massive housing complex; the TCHC (Toronto Community Housing Corp.) structure was home to some 232 households, until severe structural damage to the late 1960's building was reported. - Seen Reading on the TTCJanuary 5
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One of the more bizarre blogs created in Toronto has to be Seen Reading. It's the product of Julie Wilson's efforts to document what people are reading on the TTC. Not only does she keep a record of the name of the book, but she also guess-timates what passage the reader is reading at the time she spotted them and then infers some info about them and what feelings or emotions they might be experiencing at that moment in time.
Here's an example of a post about a woman she spotted on the Spadina streetcar reading John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent.
Now, someone has spied on Julie and it's our friends over at Dear Toronto. Just before Christmas they tagged along with her as she cruised the Bloor subway line looking for new material. Their video is embedded above.