Posts by Jay Thompson

Wordpress 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 [...]

Unofficially, 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 [...]

Thanks to the Men of Sellsius, I jumped into Animoto to see what the buzz was about.
This site is slick. You can quickly make “videos” of pictures you supply, sync’ed to music with spiffy transitions. Here is one I put together for a listing.
The service is free, but that limits you to creating 30 second [...]

Recently Realtor.com announced a free blogging platform is now available for their 1.4 millionish members.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — REALTOR.com, the most comprehensive real estate listings Web site, today announces the introduction of Featured Blog and “Let’s Talk Real Estate!,” a new blogging program on REALTOR.com developed to help REALTORS make quality connections with [...]

Pingdom is an “uptime monitoring” company. They monitor your website or blog (up to five different domain names) at user definable intervals and will notify you if your site is unreachable.
Sometime yesterday, they announced they would be offering 1,000 free yearly accounts for Firefox users. You just need to go to the sign-up page [...]

This post doesn’t have nearly the geek factor of Robbie’s Trulia API in PHP post (what would?). But it’s really important…
As a technology inclined real estate professional you no doubt have a LOT of files on your computer. Your client database, contracts, listing agreements, blog posts, marketing materials, website content, photos, and more. What [...]

Want more traffic to your blog? Sad because no one ever leaves comments? Maybe these tips will help…
Blog Traffic: Apart from consistently good writing, the single best way to drive traffic to your blog is to link to other blogs in your posts. This is a difficult concept to grasp, as your natural inclination is [...]

Disintermediation – now there is a ten dollar word. “Disintermediation” basically means to “cut out the middle man”.
There are a lot of people out there that feel the free and transparent flow of information on the internet will make the role of the real estate agent obsolete. Proponents of this thought point to the demise [...]