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Sunday, November 11th, 2007Sadly the old tired GPS had to be replaced, so yesterday a shiny Garmin Nüvi 760 took its place.
This is one slick GPS.
The 4.3 inch screen is a beauty. Crisp and clear and bright enough to see in the Phoenix sun. The included windshield mount is easy to use and works well (and apparently is [...]
Trulia Adds Featured Listings
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Trulia has introduced “Trulia Agent Featured Listings“.
Here’s the highlights:
Features:
Photo & contact info. featured on your Trulia listings, as well as a new email tool enabling consumers to email property inquiries directly to your mailbox
Totally new, enhanced property detail page embedded with useful neighborhood stats (see attached mock)
Listings featured in top three search results (based on [...]
Google News - Analytics Improves; and is the “gPhone” Near?
Monday, November 5th, 2007Google Analytics
If you use Google Analytics to analyze your web/blog traffic (and you do use something, right?), there is a nifty new addition. You can now have Analytics track and report on what how your web/blog visitors are using your site’s internal search function.
Knowing what your visitors are searching your site for could provide some great [...]
Zolve is Now a Free Website and Network
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Zolve (reviewed here) has changed a lot since it was first released 3 weeks ago. The most visible change has been in its pricing model. At launch, a Zolve membership was $395 (intro price. To escalate to $1,000 after year one!). It was recently reduced to $35/year, plus $95 per completed referral.
Today, Zolve announces [...]
More Links for Geeks
Sunday, October 28th, 2007There were three geeky stories that grabbed most of the blogspace this week:
Google Page Rank Updates
Much of the blogiverse was in a tizzy this week as several major blogs took a big hit in Google Page Rank (PR). We’re talking about major blogs going from PR7 to PR4.
Andy Beard had one of the first definitive [...]
Zolve Slashes Prices
Monday, October 22nd, 2007I’ve been on vacation the past few days, so maybe I missed the announcement. But there is no sign of it on the Zolve Blog…
It seems upstart Zolve.com, a “referral network” (my term, not theirs) has slashed their membership price from $395 per year to $34.95 per year.
Since the price seemed to be one of the [...]
Does Size Really Matter?
Friday, October 12th, 2007I’ve had a lot of people with web sites ask me about how bad it is if someone has to scroll to see all of their web page. Some “experts” will tell you that ANY scrolling is not good. However, most web sites require vertical (up and down) scrolling. Web pages these days just have [...]
Amung Us — Checking Out a New Stats Package…
Friday, October 12th, 2007I’ve been using a little widget on the sidebar of my blog from Amung Us for quite some time that shows the number of visitors currently on the blog. It’s kinda cool.
The map above is a new (to me) Amung Us feature that shows where previous visitors have come from. It also updates in real [...]
Zolve - One Agent’s Perspective
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Today’s launch of Zolve.com has generated some buzz across the real estate blogiverse, and beyond.
I haven’t come across a post yet though from someone who actually “joined” the Zolve network. What I’ve seen is bloggers looking at the site from the outside, or discussing the business model. All perfectly apropos, but missing just a little [...]
Weekly Links for Geeks #1
Saturday, October 6th, 2007As I peruse my feed reader every day, I “star” posts that I find interesting. Many are technical in nature and I thought they might appeal to some of the readers of Geek Estate.
I’m going to try to post geeky links here weekly. The easiest way, by far, to view all of [...]
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.3
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Wordpress v2.3 was released on September 24. Since upgrading Wordpress can be a hassle, this blogger tends to lag several versions behind. My blog was running on v2.1.2 and given there were reported security issues with that version, I took the plunge into upgrading.
Version 2.3 has a couple of pretty nice features.
Being the user and [...]
BlogRush - Yet Another Widget. But Kinda Cool
Sunday, September 16th, 2007Unofficially, there are 1,214,782 blog widgets out there. Some are very cool and useful, others not-so-much.
“Blog Rush” is a new widget that (according to them) can drive traffic to your blog:
BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their #1 need: More Readers For Their Blog.
By adding the BlogRush Widget to [...]
