Month: April 2008

28 Apr Interview with Greg Boser of PropertyTown

Posted at 14:02h in SEO, Websites by Peter Quinlan

I spend a great deal of time in the SEO world and when I heard Greg Boser had built a real estate website solution, I was naturally interested. I recently caught up with Greg and was able to ask him a few questions. (Note: PropertyTown...

28 Apr The Bar is Rising For Real Estate Photography

Posted at 12:00h in Photography by Larry Lohrman

Last Friday (April 25) we put on what I think is the first ever Real Estate Photography workshop. The sign-up process was a good indication of the current popularity of this subject. We sold out a week in advance. We sold several canceled seats almost...

28 Apr For Real Estate or for "Piece of Mind", Digsby is "The Bomb"

Posted at 10:23h in Office Technology by TheRECoach

Thanks to my newest BFF's at makeuseof.com (an absolute must for any RSS Reader), I have found Digsby! I have been looking long and hard for an application that can allow me "All-in-one" access to my Emails, Social Networks (Twitter, Facebook, & MySpace), and my...

27 Apr Participants of the Real Estate Standards Organization Agree on Syndication Standard for Distributing Real Estate Listings

Posted at 22:01h in MLS by David Harris

Many people have already posted on this bit of news, namely Myron Adams (RESO Exec Director) here, Michael Wurzer on FBS Blog, Inman News, Masters Report, BloodhoundBlog, and more. But I will try to post the information here with links to more information where appropriate: Philadelphia,...

25 Apr Seesmic Video Commenting for WordPress Blogs

Posted at 14:25h in Blogging, Communication by Zoltan Szendro

Let me introduce a recently released WordPress plugin which I find to be a very high value -- Seesmic. As I learned on Techcrunch, Seesmic, a video conversation start-up - founded by Loic Le Meur, a well-known European entrepreneur - released a WordPress plugin which enables...

25 Apr MyBlogLog Adds Support for Adding Your Contacts to Your Existing Address Book

Posted at 12:19h in Links for Geeks by Drew Meyers

From the MyBlogLog Blog (try saying that one 3 times fast) -- MyBlogLog hCard & vCard: More Microformats, More Portable Data. They are supporting the hCard format as well as the vCard format to enable you to download contact details directly to your address book....

25 Apr Foreclosure Radar Update

Posted at 10:50h in Websites, Widgets by Denny Oh

Sean O’Toole and the guys at ForeclosureRadar.com were nice enough to let me try out their new product, Foreclosure Listing Exchange(FLX). I’ve had it on my site for about 2 weeks now and I’m beginning to get a good amount of activity on it now. At...

24 Apr Who needs a local desktop anymore?

Posted at 16:30h in Office Technology, Websites by Kurtis Holsapple

In a world that is rapidly filling up with internet access points, that question might be more and more realistic. Introducing Ulteo.com, a complete online desktop with the tools to do most day to day work. I urge you to take a look...

22 Apr A word of advice to Real Estate Agents who Blog, the power of social networking can be a “double-edged sword”

Posted at 11:59h in Blogging, Communication, Impression Advertising, Marketing by TheRECoach

In what can only be described as an amazing commentary on the true power of Social Networking, one incredibly ignorant RedFin representative, Carol Hian, wrote a scathing Blog post on her RedFin Blog about a fellow “Twitterer” and Facebook friend, Kris Berg and her husband...

21 Apr Light, Bright Real Estate Photos Without Lighting

Posted at 17:54h in Photography by Larry Lohrman

On my last shoot of a home in Issaquah, I tried a technique that is becoming popular with real estate photographers. It's called High Dynamic Range (HDR for short) or Exposure Fusion. This technique allows you to produce interior photos that are light and bright...