Property Bee is a small plugin which works in the Firefox internet browser to track house prices (a huge talking point in the UK at the moment). Using the Rightmove website it keeps track of any changes that an Estate agents makes to a listing. For example if an estate agent changes a price and you view the listing again, it will record that listing and store it in a database. Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it?

Well, the clever part comes from the title of the plugin – ‘Bee’. When you install the plugin and then register you come a ‘Bee’. When working with other Bees you send your findings on the website to a server which holds all the changes to the listing on Rightmove. When you next do a search on Rightmove for an area or a property it will download all the changes in between meaning you get an in depth record of price changes!

Although I have only been using it a few weeks, because I am working as a ‘Bee’ I have been collecting other peoples data. Therefore some of the properties I have been looking at on Rightmove show huge drops in price! The average price drop around here (Oxfordshire & Berkshire area) seems to be between 10-20%!

A lot of the properties have been on the market for 6+ months (yes Property Bee tells you how long it’s been on the market too)! It’s all quite exciting really as I am looking to buy somewhere in the near future but at the moment I am saving so much money by holding back as the prices just keep dropping. Property Bee even tracks rental prices and they have been dropping in the area too.

I think we are in for an interesting 12 months!

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Every month the amount of visitors to the half empty website doubles in number with no work from myself. It is also earning from Adsense which is nice. I really think with a small effort I can start making a fair bit more from it but sadly I don’t have the time.

The site has had very little SEO done on it and already ranks amazingly well in Google and I believe that with a few days work I could make it into a valuable resource (as well as making a few quid)!

So you are probably all wondering what the site is? Well I am not going to say until it’s finished… which may be a while as I am very busy at the moment!

I will be announcing it the second it’s finished so if you subscribe to my RSS feed you will get notification

I currently have no plans for this site, I did have but they have fallen apart thanks to the owner of Jamesmunday.com renewing the domain name on Monday
I was hoping they would let it drop so I could pick it up and maybe do something with the site but instead they have decided to renew it for another year and hold it to ransom (they want offers above $800 for it)! Why someone would do this when I could be using it is a bit stupid really!

Anyway, in other news the Kris Moyse website has taken off nicely thanks to Kris’ increasing popularity! Kris has also just released an album which is available on iTunes, Napster, Amazon MP3 etc so check that out. He is also auctioning a ‘One of a Kind’ album which he is going to sign and it is currently doing very well on eBay. A percentage of the money raised is going to his selected charity (the NSPCC). For those of you who don’t know who Kris Moyse is, please visit the website – www.krismoyse.com

So thats about it really for the time being! I don’t really have any other projects in the pipeline. I still need to get around to putting my New Zealand photos on the site but I shall do that soon.

Take care all

JamesMunday.net Website Statistics

January was actually a very busy month but I changed web hosts half way through the month so the visitors for January should be a lot more.

Some of you may know that I run some other websites, one of which is the Official Kris Moyse Site. That has been doing very well lately thanks to Kris’ popularity on YouTube. Here are the statistics for that site:

KrisMoyse.com Website Statistics

As you can April was the busiest month so far with 1449 unique visitors racking up 16341 page views! I expect the next few months to get even busier thanks to Kris’ new videos!

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Just a quick message to let you know that most of the videos from my trip are now up on the site! Here are the videos:

Bungy Jumping:
Kawarau Bridge Bungy (43 metres)
Nevis Highwire Bungy (134 metres)
Nevis Highwire Bungy Pod Footage (134 metres)

Skydiving:
15,000ft Skydive – Taupo, New Zealand

There are also other videos which can be found on the videos page. Pictures will be coming tomorrow or maybe the day after.

For those people who are wondering about the jet lag, I don’t have any – woohoo! Also, I managed to get my car started and it’s all fine (which I was suprised about because it hadn’t been started or moved for 2 months)!

Take care all

The flight was a long one and surprisingly I don’t have jet lag which is a bonus. I was greeted in Oxford by my mum and I have seen most of my family already today and will be seeing the rest on Wednesday.

I have just been looking through the photos and videos I have from my trip and there are hundreds. They will be on the website in the coming days after I have sorted things like my car etc (it hasn’t been moved for 2 months)!

Check back soon and the pictures and videos might be on here!

I made it with plenty of time but the coach was quite late arriving. The journey is supposed to be 11 hours but because of delays it was a 12 hour trip! Luckily for me I met a nice woman from Switzerland on the coach and the day passed very quickly. In the space of a day we have become friends and we are going to write to each other in each others languages (she speaks Swiss-German) when we get home – eek! When we arrived in Auckland we went out for something to eat and also a drink before heading back to our hostels

Today is my last full day in Auckland as I fly home tomorrow at 9.30pm. I am going to do a little shopping today for gifts as I haven’t really bought any yet!

Anyway, I must go

I didn’t get up to much yesterday in Kaikoura as the weather was pretty terrible. I met an old friend and went for a game of pool and then met about 10 people who had just started their trip on the Kiwi bus. We all had a few games of pool (including Killer) before we headed back to where we were staying.

Had a bit of a lay-in this morning but then headed for Picton where we got on the 1:15pm ferry. The weather is awful at the moment and it just won’t stop raining. Not that it bothers me that much as I am leaving tomorrow.

It also turns out that today was my last ever journey on the Kiwi Experience. I was thinking of making my own way back to Auckland anyway but after seeing the bus timetable today it turns out there is no bus from Taupo to Auckland on Saturday meaning if I hadn’t checked and had taken the bus I would have had to find alternative travel arrangements. If I hadn’t been able to do that I may have missed my flight.

As it happens there is an Intercity coach leaving Wellington tomorrow at 9:00am and arriving in Auckland at 8:20pm. I have booked the last seat on that bus – phew!

This means I will have 2 nights in Auckland before I fly home on Sunday