Cool Sites: Swik and Redfin

The folks at SourceLabs have released Swik, the free and open database of Open Source projects that anyone can edit. It’s sort of a SourceForge/Freshmeat meets Delicious meets [enter your search engine here]. It has a wiki aspect for allow users to modify content which is an interesting perspective. I guess the mass awareness of “open-source” dictates a need for sites like Swik, CodeZoo, Freshmeat, etc.

The second, and arguably far cooler, site is Redfin. Redfin is Seattle, Bellevue and The Greater Eastside’s only aerial residential real estate search engine. It presents a pretty slick interface (ala Google Maps) and overlays MLS real estate information. Pretty slick and the concept is something I’ve been thinking about as of late.

Example search, All houses in Medina > $1 million.