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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Geek Are You?
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Take the test and find out. Here are my results 70% Geek 70%Looking for payday loan? I’m surprised I scored that high. Out of 22 questions there were plenty of things I had never heard of. In my opinion, if you take the time answer 22 questions about being a geek, you [...]
I Have a Dr3am
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Earlier today I was assisting a client in adding some content to his Realtor.Com template web site. While viewing the source of his main page I stumbled upon some commented code. Commented code is used by web and software developers to communicate in situations where more than one person is working on the codebase. It [...]
Audio Podcast With Amy Bohutinsky, Director of Communications with Zillow.com
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Owen Raun of Online Mortgage Podcast did a great interview with Amy Bouhtinsky, Director of Communications with Zillow.Com. It’s very comprehensive and does a great job of explaining Zillow’s business model, recent announcements and upcoming products. My recent trip to the NAR convention underscored a basic misunderstanding of what Zillow has to offer real estate [...]
Survey Says 80% of Adults Are Now Online
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007I recently did an interview with a national business publication regarding consumer usage of the web in real estate. One of the questions I was asked is why the web has been become so important recently to the strategy of real estate professionals. The answer is the sort of the same as why someone robs [...]
Meet The Bloggers - NAR Expo Nov 13 - 16th
Friday, October 26th, 2007Damon Pace at Incredible Agent is hosting “Meet The Bloggers” at the upcoming NAR Expo. I have been working the past few days to invite a group of great real estate bloggers to provide attendees with some insight to their experiences with blogging as well as question and answer sessions. It’s going to be a [...]
C.A.R. & H.A.R. Say Technology Will Take You Far
Thursday, October 11th, 2007If you’re the kind of person that digs surveys, polls and red-hot press releases, you’ll want to follow the news from two large industry trade associations that came out back to back yesterday. The California Association of Realtors released their results of their latest technology survey. Most notable was the stat that reported Realtors garner [...]
Yahoo Search Improvements Launched
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Yahoo took the final wraps off of their improved search today. The engineers have been working hard to catch up to Google in the feature department. I have to say that after my early tests I may just re-join the ranks of the Yahooligans. The most prominent change comes in the form of the “Assisted [...]
100 Reasons To Switch To A Smart Phone
Friday, September 28th, 2007Palm announces today the release of a new smart phone priced at $99.99. The Centro is a slick new phone that is surprisingly very feature rich. It comes in a choice of red or black, supports the 3G networks for a fast broadband internet connection, has an expansion slot for a memory card, a 1.3 [...]
Real Estate Bloggers Rally Around One of Their Own
Monday, September 24th, 2007Saturday morning started out like any other for me. Groggy with my coffee in hand, I checked my e-mail. David Gibbons had forwarded me a link to the now infamous “Leave Realtors Alone” video. I remember thinking to myself how it capped off a great week. The video starred Aaron Anglin, the younger brother of [...]
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