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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Doug Heddings, who covers the Manhattan market at True Gotham, has built a great brand for himself with the help of video. However, he gets more than branding from his video efforts — he actually uses video to help move properties. Doug was a guest on Inman TV on Friday and gave some great tips […]
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How to Create Embeddable Spreadsheets for Your Blog
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008If you ask me, one of the hardest pieces of blogging is consistently finding content ideas. One possible source of interesting content is pure data — essentially, anything in a spreadsheet is potential blog content.
Though Google Docs can also be used to embed a spreadsheet, the tool I’m going to demonstrate is EditGrid. Here is […]
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Some Links for Geeks
Monday, May 5th, 2008Here are a couple links worth checking out:
The Trick To Adding Local Search To Your Website or Blog
The Simple Way To Get Personal Emails From Your Blog’s Readers
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Brad Andersohn from Active Rain Joins the Geeks
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Please join me in welcoming our newest Geek to the Geek Estate Blog — Brad Andersohn, who is one of three community builders at Active Rain (you can find his blog here). With over 22 years experience in the real estate industry, Brad specializes in researching new technologies and marketing tools, then helping others make […]
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Redfin Adds Bank-Owned Foreclosures and For Sale By Owner Properties
Thursday, May 1st, 2008I wanted to extend a congratulations to the Redfin team for adding foreclosures and for sale by owner properties to their already impressive website. I think it’s safe to say home buyers searching on Redfin will definitely benefit from the increased inventory of properties.
More coverage:
Joel Burslem - Redfin Adds Bank-Owned, FSBO Homes to Search
Jonathan Dalton […]
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MyBlogLog Adds Support for Adding Your Contacts to Your Existing Address Book
Friday, April 25th, 2008From 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. NikNik has more analysis over at MyTechOpinion.
Love it!
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RealEstate.com Adds Google Street View
Monday, April 21st, 2008RealBird was 1st out of the gate integrating Google Street View imagery back in March. Trulia announced their Google Street view integration a week later. Today, RealEstate.com announces their integration.
I’m sensing a growing trend…
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Google is Making Its Impact Felt in the Mapping Industry
Thursday, April 17th, 2008First, on Monday, it was announced that the KML format is now an international standard supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Google Earth Blog coverage - Google Earth’s KML Now International Standard.
Then, Google Earth 4.3 was released on Tuesday (more commentary on Mashable). If you’re curious, here is a video demo:
Regarding how these announcements relate […]
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FatDoor Becomes center’d
Monday, April 14th, 2008According to TechCrunch , Fatdoor has closed its doors and will reopen as Center’d. From the about page (via TechCrunch) –
At Center’d, we’ve been thinking about how to solve the challenges that exist in making plans. From the smallest get together, where you just can’t decide on where to eat . . . to the […]
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Google Apps and Salesforce Team Up
Monday, April 14th, 2008Though TopProducer seems to be the most popular CRM tool in the real estate industry, I know some real estate professionals use Salesforce.com as their customer relationship management application. As of today, those of you using Salesforce have some new tools at your disposal — Google Apps!
Salesforce for Google Apps integrates Gmail, Google Talk, Google […]
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Carnival of Real Estate #86
Monday, April 14th, 2008The 86th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at True Gotham.
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What do You Think of TwitterLocal?
Monday, April 7th, 2008I saw a post on PR 2.0 this weekend that could be of interest to many real estate professionals trying to find clients using social media — TwitterLocal Connects You to Local Voices.
Jeff Turner also picked up on the new mashup of Twitter (H/T FoREM).
If you’re a real estate professional, is TwitterLocal.net a viable option […]
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