18th Thing -- Web 2.0 Tools

There are such a lot of nifty web 2.0 tools that it will consume as much time as you choose to devote to them. As a result, it took me many long minutes to settle on just one to write about. I limited my exploration to the award winners and, after dabbling with the travel sites, decided to write about Zillow. Zillow is a tool that provides a great deal of information on real estate. You can enter the address of a property and very quickly retrieve - among much other information - the estimated value of the property, the number of square feet, how much property tax was paid and - in most cases - photos of the property. I know that all of this information is public record but it is still amazing how much information can be gathered in a very short time. In addition to seeing how my house compared to others in my neighborhood I also looked at the listings for the other houses that I've lived in. Zillow is a useful - and fun - tool.