Posts by Michael Price

I’ve decided to carry on with Drew’s “Links for Geeks” feature. I’ve identified a few gems from my feed reader that perhaps you haven’t seen in the past week.
How To Set Up a Self Hosted WP Blog
Steve at Zeek Interactive (The Company Behind Real Estate Shows) has a concise and simple outline for hosting your [...]

What the heck is a Barcamp? I’ve been helping answer that question for a couple of years now. Luckily enough, you will find a plethora of information on the REBC web site. The short of it? It’s a free event where people show up and set up the topics of discussion and those who will [...]

As a new regular feature of Geek Estate blog, we will be shining a spot light on select real estate technology events. If you know of a technology related real estate event, please add it to the calendar.
Our first featured event is RE Tech South. This is the 3rd event for the Atlanta based conference. [...]

What The Heck is #RETT?
About a week or so ago, I started noticing a hashtag associated with many of the posts in my social media stream, #RETT. Most of the posts were notices of meetings regarding RETT but nothing that revealed what it was. I assumed it was a local social media event of some [...]

We’ve added a new feature to Geek Estate Blog. The Real Estate Technology Event Calendar. Our goal is to maintain the “go to” resource for the ever growing list of technology related events for real estate professionals.
Use the form on the Calendar page to submit your event for consideration. Your event must be technology or [...]

Google takes a run at Facebook today by releasing their new platform boringly titled “Buzz” with an equally uncreative logo (the conversation bubble is so 2009). Not that it really matters. Google could announce they changed the brand of TP in the executive wash rooms and people would take notice. Google is hedging a bet [...]

Nikon USA recently announced a new line up of CoolPix cameras. Advances in technology and ease of use in digital cameras could have you taking better listing photos right out of the box. Some of the new point and shoot cameras now include the one feature most important to real estate professionals, wide angle. I [...]

Say hello to iPad. Today was the long awaited day that the Apple “tablet” device was unveiled. It’s being touted as magical and revolutionary. The jury is out on those statements but I have to say that with exception of one big glaring omission, I like it. It has the potential to be a bit [...]

Agents have a cool new way to present listing photos and videos to prospects. Nikon announced today they will be releasing the a new addition to their CoolPix point and shoot line up. The S1000pj adds the ability to project images onto a flat surface up to 40″.
Some pretty impressive specs come packed into the [...]

The latest release of Firefox (3.5) is now available for download. So far I am extremely impressed with the stability and speed. There are quite a few changes for a .5 upgrade, not the least of which is support for the long awaited HTML5 tags for audio and video. When fully implemented the web is [...]

Zillow announced today that they have updated their recently released iPhone app. This comes very shortly on the heels of the much anticipated 3.0 upgrade to the iPhone operating system. According to the Zillow press release the most requested feature from the App’s user reviews included the ability to save searches, listing favorites and the [...]

As expected, Apple rolled out several announcements regarding the iPhone. The 3.0 changes include the release of a new operating system and an entirely new phone. The new 3GS (s=speed) has many new features including voice dialing and the ability to capture and edit video directly on the phone. Apple also announced that they will [...]