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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Another Cool Car repair Web site

RepairPal gives you independent and unbiased repair estimates, user ratings and reviews, plus advice you can't get anywhere else. It's easy, accurate, and FREE!

Which car repair site do you like better and why?

Friday, June 6, 2008

Cool new auto research site

Driverside is a new web site that gets better the more people use it. Using it in its current form, you can research the current value of your vehicle, you can get an estimate for what a repairs to your vehicle should cost, you can find parts for you car, you can explore and research a potential new or used car purchase, and you can post an ad to sell you car. For example, our Red van is worth $3200 if we trade it in to a dealer, but it is worth $5500 if we sell it ourselves.

Good for those questions and patrons dealing with autos when the Consumer Reports is just not enough.

PolicyMap Demographic Data on Your Neighborhood

PolicyMap is a new website that offers more than 4,000 points of data about any location in the United States, including demographics, real estate markets, crime, schools, housing affordability, employment type, energy consumption, and public investments. It's powered by a new Application Programming Interface (API) from commercial mapping service PushPin.

I tried it out and its pretty neat you can retrieve the data using maps or by clickign your mouse or whatever. It would be useful if someone wanted to investigate a location if they were moving or had a school report about a particular place or area.

World Health Statistics 2008

World Health Statistics 2008 presents the most recent health statistics for WHO’s 193 Member States. This fourth edition includes 10 highlights in health statistics, as well as an expanded set of over 70 key health indicators. It includes, for the first time, trend data where the statistics are available and of acceptable quality.