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For Real Estate or for “Piece of Mind”, Digsby is “The Bomb”

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Thanks to my newest BFF’s at makeuseof.com (an absolute must for any RSS Reader), I have found Digsby! I have been looking long and hard for an application that can allow me “All-in-one” access to my Emails, Social Networks (Twitter, Facebook, & MySpace), and my IM accounts (Yahoo Messenger, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Google Talk, and […]

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Foreclosure Radar Update

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Sean O’Toole and the guys at ForeclosureRadar.com were nice enough to let me try out their new product, Foreclosure Listing Exchange(FLX). I’ve had it on my site for about 2 weeks now and I’m beginning to get a good amount of activity on it now.
At first, I only posted a blog about my new service […]

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“Link Love”, Peace, and Real Estate 2.0!!!

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Some weeks are just better than others when it comes to reaping the benefits of Blogging and Blog-Surfing. Over the past 5 days I have found MakeUseof.com, a fantastic post by Matt Rathbun, and a web 2.0 tool that every stinkin Realtor/Real Estate Agent/Anybody in Real Estate should be using, without fail…because once again, the […]

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Foreclosure Radar

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

As the market has shifted and distressed sellers are more plentiful, a variety of companies are trying to help home buyers and Realtors keep up to speed.  In response to the increase in foreclosures and short sales, Sean O’Toole founded a company called Foreclosure Radar.  Foreclosure Radar allows home buyers to track every foreclosure in California, […]

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Real Estate Agents, if I save you $9,500, will you send me $950?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Ok great! Please contact me at any of my links and I will give you my address, so you can send a check. Please try to send it immediately after reading the Blog, I have 2 kids in College, and Spring tuition is due!!
Ok, now for the serious side. As most of you already know, […]

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RealtyFlix :: Video Tours with Navigation to Scenes

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I’ll admit, I’ve been on the fence about video and listings. My 2 core issues w/ video have been the following:

No “Navigation” - I’ve been wanting to see better navigation in video tours, so I can jump right to footage of the kitchen per se…versus waiting until 3 mins & 53 seconds of […]

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MyBlogLog Adds Support for Zillow, Trulia, and Active Rain Profiles

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

It looks like MyBlogLog is aiming to ramp up adoption in the RE.net by adding support for Zillow, Trulia, and Active Rain profiles (and Tumblr, Multiply, and FriendFeed) as part of their Online Services section of MyBlogLog profiles. Now, if you use the About Me widget, it will include a link to your AR, Zillow, […]

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Create Real Estate Widgets

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Recently at the DEMO Conference (a conference for start-ups to showcase their new technologies), a company called Sprout launched a new application that allows anyone to create a professional Widget. Real Estate agents will like this new slick tool in that it is very easy to use. The interface is a Flash based WYSIWYG that […]

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Introducing MyBlogLog “About Me” Widgets to the RE.net

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Over the past 2 years, I’ve seen numerous real estate blogs adopt the MyBlogLog Recent Readers widget — and I love the fact that so many use it. However, I have yet to see a real estate blogger adopt the new About Me widget MBL announced in mid-December. I think this is a great way […]

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Amung Us — Checking Out a New Stats Package…

Friday, October 12th, 2007

I’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 […]

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Google/Microsoft translator says $87 million is still $87 million in Japanese

Friday, September 21st, 2007

We just translated the Geekestate Blog into Japanese with the help of Google and Microsoft.
So what does $87 million mean in Japanese ?

Well…$87 million! This amount of capital has no language barriers and everyone around the world can understand that Zillow’s $87 million war chest is no joke. Congratulations Zillow!
So now for the geeky part…
We […]

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BlogRush - Yet Another Widget. But Kinda Cool

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

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 […]

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