Month: May 2008

31 May What is Social Media?

Posted at 11:34h in Marketing by Drew Meyers

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo. [via Ubertor Real Estate Blog]...

29 May Silly MLS IDX Rules

Posted at 11:09h in IDX, Mapping, MLS, Websites by Andrew Mattie

I read some stuff the other day about how the talented crew over at Estately recently launched into the Portland, OR market, and one of the stupid MLS rules (my opinion) they had to face triggered some memories of frustrations I had faced when I...

28 May Want to Integrate Google Earth into a Browser-Based Web App? Now You Can

Posted at 12:06h in Mapping by Drew Meyers

Today, Paul Rademacher, a Technical Lead for Google Earth, announced the release of the Google Earth browser plug-in on the Google Lat Long Blog: Today, I'm happy to announce the release of the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google Earth...

27 May REALTOOLS for REALTORS®

Posted at 19:57h in Gadgets, Links for Geeks, Office Technology, Websites, Widgets by Brad Andersohn

In the never ending quest to find new and useful tools to Blog about, and to share with REALTORS® all across the Country, I thought it might be useful to list some of the Top sites I have discovered over this past year. ...

27 May Local Matters Purchases the Point2 Facebook Neighborhoods Application

Posted at 18:27h in Company News & Analysis by Drew Meyers

Probably as a result of coming on a day where the NAR-DOJ agreement stole the headlines, there was an announcement today in the real estate tech world that went largely unnoticed -- Local Matters and Point2 announced "an Agreement of Sale and Cooperation for Point2’s...

26 May Nice to meet you, Barry.

Posted at 11:47h in E-Mail, Marketing, Websites by Erion Shehaj

About a month ago, I got tipped by a developer buddy of mine, Stephen Parker about a powerful new platform called GoodBarry. Originally out of Australia, this platform markets itself as providing a complete online business solution to turn your website into an efficient money...

23 May A New Aggregator on the Scene — RealSeekr

Posted at 18:34h in Company News & Analysis by Drew Meyers

In case you missed it, there is a new aggregator on the scene in the real estate industry -- RealSeekr, which was announced early this week and was covered on Agent Genius yesterday (and there are already 30 comments). When I was in New York...

21 May Are You A Rookie with Social Media? No Worries — Social Media U to the Rescue

Posted at 19:49h in Blogging, Identity Management, Marketing by Drew Meyers

Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb has put together a great post for anyone looking for a crash course in social media. Here are the lessons in Social Media U: Personal branding (a topic I've written about before) Know what web 2.0 is and how to use it Learn...

18 May Whooping it up on Woopra

Posted at 11:28h in Blogging, Company News & Analysis by Jay Thompson

Looking for a cool web site analytics package?Look no further than Woopra. Currently in “live beta”, you’ll need to go to the site and request an account. And be prepared to wait — the waiting list is long. It took me about a month to get...

16 May Real Estate Listing Syndication Comparison for Technology Vendors and Brokerages

Posted at 09:51h in Listings Syndication by Drew Meyers

I'm not sure how many people saw the news that Google Spreadsheets can now be edited by anyone, but the concept of a a wiki-style spreadsheet caught my attention. You now no longer have to "invite" people in order to have them contribute and edit...