Doug McCune » hotpads http://dougmccune.com/blog A blog about Adobe Flex Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:11:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Flex spotted on TV http://dougmccune.com/blog/2008/08/25/flex-spotted-on-tv/ http://dougmccune.com/blog/2008/08/25/flex-spotted-on-tv/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:06:54 +0000 Doug http://dougmccune.com/blog/2008/08/25/flex-spotted-on-tv/ I came across a video of a segment that aired on Fox Business News about HotPads.com, which is an online housing search website (rentals, sales, etc). As I was watching the clip I noticed that beautiful little preloader we’ve all come to know and love :) HotPads uses a custom map engine they developed in Flex (after porting an older Flash app).

Here’s the screenshot that caught my eye:
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You can watch the full video here:

And if you haven’t checked out hotpads before, it’s pretty dope. In addition to seeing rental listings on a map, they let you see some cool heatmaps of various things like foreclosure rates, income and age levels, etc. And it’s Flex, so show some love people.

Disclaimer or whatever: The guys who founded and run hotpads are friends of mine, I even did some work for them back a few years ago. I’ve got a little investment in the company that will one day either make me rich or hopefully at least buy me a six pack of beer.

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