So Trulia has incorporated Google maps’ Street view into their listings. Here’s an example from a listing in Portland. It’s not exactly a tour of the home. In fact, you can hardly see the home from the street, but it does give you an opportunity to tour the neighborhood without driving to it.

I’m sure that Trulia would like to have a street view for Eugene as well. Unfortunately Google has focused almost all of its Oregon-based Street View photography efforts on Portland, as you can see from this map. If that changes, and Eugene gets Street View images, you will be the first to know!

Popularity: 57% [?]

Fotowoosh is a fascinating new service. It takes the real estate online “tour” to a whole new level.

What I’m not clear on however is:

• How much work is put into rendering a photo into a video? Is it self-service, or not?
• Is this simply a clever lead generation tool for their hosting service?

Freewebs is definitely on the cutting edge of Web 2.0, with their simplified application tools for either integrating content into your own site or blog, or into a blog hosted by Freewebs.

They definitely understand, unlike other internet hosting services, that hosting has become a commodity. It’s what publishers can do with the hosting that drives innovation. In this case, they might be onto something with fotowoosh. If they send me a beta [nudge nudge], I might be able to tell you.

Popularity: 15% [?]

Mapwing is a no-frills, easy-to-use virtual tour host. You can create a basic floor plan, leave notes, and allow people to tour inside and outside of the property using the “flashlight” compass on the floorplan.

This is a very clean site with an excellent product. I look forward to the day (if it comes), when they provide an API so others can mash their tours with MLS, Google maps, and other resources to build a better real estate mousetrap. Pardon the phrase.

Mapwing should be especially appealing to builders, who can create tours for popular home designs and embed them directly into their websites.

Popularity: 10% [?]