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Quick, what year was the U.S. Constitution adopted?Difficulty: No Google allowed.Do you remember this from high school? Or were you crafty enough to split hairs and use Bing to find the answer?If you had to hunt for the answer on anything that required a computer chip, chances are you may agree w...

As mentioned earlier this week, DotLoop partner The Goodlife Team was nominated for the 2010 Inman Innovator Award.As mentioned now, they won! The Austin, Texas-based brokerage won top honors for the Most Innovative Brokerage or Franchise. Here's what Inman had to say about them: The GoodLife Tea...

Local wins every time.Just ask Texas.Having put up with their shady practices for the last few years, fifteen homeowners have banded together to file a class-action lawsuit against Bank of America for their unfair, illegal, and highly unethical behavior throughout the current housing crash.From f...

Yesterday, CNN's Money.com announced its Top 100 Places to Live, and Nice, France was not anywhere on the list.Upon further review, it looks like this was a USA-centric compilation, so I guess the lack of a Mediterranean locale makes sense.These lists are always kind of funny, really. What makes ...

DotLoop is proud to announce that our partner The Goodlife Team out of Austin, Texas, has been selected as a finalist for one of the real estate industry's most coveted awards, the 2010 Inman Innovator Award.It's no surprise that The Goodlife Team has been nominated. As a leader within the real e...

The Internet is chock full of top-ten lists, enough to make a top ten list for that day's best top-ten lists. Today's top-ten list of mention, however, comes to us from the folks at MSNBC who dedicated their list to Technologies That Should Be Extinct (But Aren't). Interestingly, they mention Dot...

Here at DotLoop, we talk a lot about designing walkable, people-focused communities that offer amenities and connectedness with neighbors and businesses alike.We think it's important that people feel connected to their communities and that, as home-owners, they have a sense of home that reaches b...

The web, as we have all been told, is changing. And it's about time.Here at DotLoop, we're all about simplifying, so it was with great pleasure that I read about Google Chrome's meteoric rise to the number three position in the Browser Wars between Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari, M...

For a country with a 100% literacy rate, it's no surprise that Finland today became the first nation to make broadband access a legal right.As CNN reports, the legislation that goes into effect today was designed to force "telecom operators to provide a reasonably priced broadband connection wit...

You no doubt have one lurking in your office right now. This very minute. It's just sitting there, waiting to ruin your day.Waiting to ruin your deal.Oh sure, everything is fine now. It's perfectly capable now, when you don't need it. But just try and use it when it's a matter of life and death a...