On September 14th, we ran a post about the search engine PeopleFinders entitled, PeopleFinders offers free Sex Offenders search. It was a very serious application of a Real Estate type search to determine if an offender lived near you or a friend. rottenNeighbor takes a slightly skewed look at people in your -or my- neighborhood.
I just put in my zip code, 22931, and you can see Charlottesville at the bottom of the map. Click on the closest pin to your house. Of course you can report (or be reported!) a rotten neighbor, too.
rottenNeighbor is the first real estate search engine of its kind that helps you find bad neighbors before you move so you don’t regret the purchase of your new house, home, condo or apartment.

Their goal is to be an assistant when you are looking to move into a new neighborhood. They hope that you will be able to find your dream home in your dream neighborhood by using their information provided by other users.

It doesn’t matter if you are moving down the street or all the way across the country, when you are going to make one of the biggest decisions in your life they want to help you make a choice you won’t regret later when you might discover a bad neighbor living right next door.

“Here’s blood in your eye?” Sounds gross, doesn’t it? But that’s exactly what happened to me last month. A clot formed, and then burst, in my right eye, leaving me partially blind – permanently.
(Kaila calls me “Winky” now, isn’t that cute?)

So when Iri from iMedix called me today, I decided to test it with my new medical condition CRVO.

What is iMedix?

iMedix is a free website that helps you find and share health information.

At iMedix, you are not alone, coping with fear and confusion regarding your medical condition. Whether you’re looking for symptoms, diseases, treatments, or simply general health information, you will be searching together with many other people. Members of the iMedix community assist each other by sharing their experiences and ranking medical content in order to make health information personal, organized and accessible to any individual. Here are the people that were online when I was:

As you search iMedix, they will find for you comprehensive health information from the top sources across the web, and people who would like to discuss and share similar health experiences with you.

iMedix’s technology was designed with one goal in mind: “The more people use it – the better it gets”. The system constantly studies users’ feedbacks and improves search results. All you have to do is indicate that you found a certain article relevant or irrelevant to your query. You will soon notice that the system gets better every day…

I have a few invitations to their alpha testing if you leave a comment or email me at Charles@ReadWriteWeb.com.
Or just go to the iMedix site.





Central Retinal Vein Occlusion
Central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) presents with mild to severe visual loss. The ischemic type almost always has vision of 20/100 or worse (mine is 20/400!) on initial presentation, and has a much higher risk of developing complications. These patients must be followed carefully, perhaps every few weeks, to evaluate for signs of neovascularization (new, abnormal vessel growth) both in the retina and on the iris. Neovascularization of the iris may result in intractable glaucoma. Conditions, if they develop, are typically treated with laser to the retina in attempt to cause regression of these dreaded complications.

Monday I am flying up to New York to attend the SMX conference and Kaila just flew home from New Zealand to the Upper West Side (UWS). Knowing that I would now meet Kaila in person, I looked about for a Bar/Pub search engine, and found Pubwalk.

Pubwalk is a fun web application that merges CitySearch and Google Maps. Currently, pubs / bars and late night eating is supported. Give it a shot, you can plan some pretty cool routes, send them to your phone, save the route for later, publish the map at a blog or share the link with your friends.

Not knowing Kaila’s tastes, I limited my search to UWS Comedy Clubs, Karaoke, and Biker Bars.

Pubwalk found three places for me to take her, and of course all I had to do was click on each green pin to get the summary details. Thanks, Pubwalk!