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All along, I had a feeling this would happen.
Just like an unreasonable seller in a declining real estate market, Yahoo rebuffed the advances of a ready and willing buyer (Microsoft) numerous times. Reason? The offer presented by Mr Softee “shortchanged” Yahoo’s past stock value even though it came at a significant premium over current stock [...]

I wanted to extend a congratulations to the Redfin team for adding foreclosures and for sale by owner properties to their already impressive website. I think it’s safe to say home buyers searching on Redfin will definitely benefit from the increased inventory of properties.
More coverage:

Joel Burslem - Redfin Adds Bank-Owned, FSBO Homes to Search
Jonathan Dalton [...]

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 [...]

According to TechCrunch , Fatdoor has closed its doors and will reopen as Center’d. From the about page (via TechCrunch) –
At Center’d, we’ve been thinking about how to solve the challenges that exist in making plans. From the smallest get together, where you just can’t decide on where to eat . . . to the [...]

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 [...]

Though TopProducer seems to be the most popular CRM tool in the real estate industry, I know some real estate professionals use Salesforce.com as their customer relationship management application. As of today, those of you using Salesforce have some new tools at your disposal — Google Apps!
Salesforce for Google Apps integrates Gmail, Google Talk, Google [...]

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, [...]

Trulia 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 [...]

Yesterday on my personal blog I wrote of the concept of going “Viral” as it pertained to a recent segment I was featured in on a local news program regarding how the Internet is effecting Real Estate in the California Central Valley. Well that clip made it to BlipTV, then to websites throughout the company [...]

Adobe 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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Ok, now for the serious side. As most of you already know, [...]

What a week for Prudential Real Estate, I guess scheduling a National Convention in New Orleans has spurred some sort of Revolutionary thought process or perhaps Bourbon St has “relaxed” the decision makers to the point where they have a new found understanding of Web 2.0. No matter what the reason, anyone working under “The [...]