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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Coldwell Banker announced at an O’Reilly conference today that it is teaming up with Dash to add their listings as a home search feed for Dash Express GPS navigation device owners.
Dash touts itself as “the first two-way, Internet-connected GPS navigation system”. Dash also provides an API that provides a way for users to customize their […]
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Trulia & Google Take it To The Streets
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Trulia announces a partnership that allows viewers of listings in 30 or so cities to “Walk The Neighborhood” using Google’s Street View technology. Street view is a service introduced by Google last year that allows viewers to navigate mapped 360 panoramic images from street level in around 30 regions in the U.S.Google’s Street View uses […]
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Adobe Launches Photoshop Express
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Adobe Systems has finally unveiled it’s online photo editing and sharing application, dubbed Photoshop Express. According to Adobe, what you’ll see promises pushes the boundaries of web based applications to new limits. The application is free to use and even includes 2 gigs of online storage. The app will require Flash 9 to be installed […]
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Help Me Welcome Our Newest Geek - Eric “The Coach” Bryant
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Please join me in welcoming the newest regular contributor to the Geek Estate Blog, Eric “The Coach” Bryant. Eric is the Director of Information Services at Prudential California Realty, a broker with 300 agents and offices located throughout the Central Valley area. Eric spends a great deal of his “coaching” efforts training agents in the […]
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YouTube Outage Sheds Light On Global IP Security Issues
Monday, February 25th, 2008YouTube is Down? That was the message I sent on Twitter and to a few friends yesterday. Each person replied one after the other that they were unable to connect to the YouTube servers yesterday afternoon. I thought it was just a typical blip that sometimes happens to even the largest of web hosts. I […]
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Apple Upgrades Aperture to 2.0
Friday, February 15th, 2008Apple unveiled a complete new build of it’s photo application Aperture a couple of days ago. I finally had a chance to install it and check out the new features. The first and most notable thing is speed. It’s absolutely blazes in comparison to v 1.5. The RAW format support is entirely new as well. […]
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MicroHoo is Good For Mobile
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008Everyone in the world is dissecting the potential merger of Microsoft and Yahoo. Joel opines on the impact to real estate search. I haven’t been overly impressed with either company when it comes to the real estate vertical and it’s anyone’s guess whether it will receive much attention in a merged environment. Some of the […]
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REBarCamp San Francisco Announced
Friday, January 18th, 2008Andy Kaufman has announced today on the AgentGenius blog and Zebra Talk that he is coordinating a BarCamp to take place a day ahead of the Inman Connect Conference in SF this summer. I think it’s a great idea and I plan to do all I can to help him with the effort. If you’re […]
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Marketing Your Blog
Thursday, January 17th, 2008One of the better panels at Inman Connect tackled the issue of marketing your blog. Moderated by Joel Burslem the panelists included:
Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC
Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National & Author, MyTechOpinion.com
Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real Estate
And none other than GeekEstate’s own: Drew Meyers, Community Relations […]
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Zillow Shares Data on 7,000 Neighborhoods
Thursday, January 17th, 2008The data geeks over at Zillow Labs are sharing some of their work via a Creative Commons License. It is represents the neighborhood boundaries of over 7,000 locations in major markets across the U.S.
What’s cool is the fact that you can make additions and changes to the database files and redistribute them, (with proper attribution […]
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Must Have Apps For The New Mac User
Monday, December 31st, 2007Judging from the log files to the sites we manage, 2007 could definitely be dubbed the year of the switch. Apple’s market share has seen it’s largest increase in some time. If you’re lucky enough to have joined the cult that is Mac, take a look at this exhaustive list of must have applications. While […]
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New Geek Estate Contributor - Matthew Kelly
Friday, December 28th, 2007Drew and I were discussing the need to get more mortgage and lending professionals involved with Geek Estate. I am lucky enough to have a friend and former colleague that works with the on-line lender, RMC Vanguard Mortgage Corporation out of Houston Texas. RMC employs a great deal of technology in their business and Matt […]
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