Posts by Drew Meyers

Myspace’s DataAvailability functionality is live at developer.myspace.com. Here is a test application from TechCrunch that should give you a feel for what is possible.
I’m not sure if there are legal or technical restrictions that would prevent this, but one possible use of DataAvailability could be allowing buyers looking at listings on your site to share [...]

This might be a little off topic and not relevant to the US market (yet), but it is “geeky” and pretty cool, so I’ll post it anyway. Google MapMaker, which is Google’s attempt at using its massive community of users to improve their Google Maps product, is live! According to Lalitesh Katragadda & Sanjay Jain [...]

Here are a couple links worth noting –

Tracking the real estate web in real-time - FeedPot.com
BIRDVIEW Widens On-Line Marketing Reach for Real Estate Brokerage Clients
Introducing StepRep from MyFrontSteps
How to Increase Your Blog Subscription Rate by 254%

You may have already seen the news (Techmeme coverage), but news voting site reddit is now open source.
I’m not sure how many web developers will be at RE Bar Camp, but it could be fun project to build a real estate version of reddit as one of the sessions, or at least spec the requirements [...]

If you haven’t already, I would highly recommend instalingl the wordpress automatic upgrade plugin and upgrading your wordpress blog. After all, there is no need to risk having your blog hacked. And NOW upgrading is easy and does not require you to upload the latest files via FTP or manually upgrade your database.
I just upgraded [...]

Mike Price, who is a contributor here at Geek Estate, just posted a podcast with the founders of RealSeekr.com that you might find interesting.

Here are several blog posts from around the RE.net you might find interesting:

Serious Google tips, plus anyone ready to compete with Trulia or Redfin? [via 360Digest]
My Front Steps Looks Close to Launch…
On the hunt for new real estate marketing tools!
Predicting Home Prices in Cincinnati, Ohio
Adjusting to Disintermediation
Microsoft closes down “Craigslist Killer”

I just saw the news over at Mashable regarding the new Yahoo Address Book API. According to Charles Wu, the product manager for the Yahoo! address book platform, here are a couple things you can do with the API:

Obtain unique identifiers (i.e., email addresses) to help build a social network.
Look up phone numbers for [...]

Sorry, I just have to do it — link to fellow Geek Estate contributor Jay Thompson twice in the same day (prior link)! This week’s Carnival of Real Estate, posted at Phoenix Real Estate Guy, is just too good NOT to link to it.

After reading Jay Thompson’s post about Marketing on Twitter, it’s looking like the answer should be “Yes”.

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

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 to the web, embeddable within your own web site. Driven [...]