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“Link Love”, Peace, and Real Estate 2.0!!!
Monday, April 14th, 2008Some 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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Going “Viral” is a Real Estate Agents Dream Come True!
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Yesterday 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 […]
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Prudential Has Even More Up Their Sleeve…
Friday, March 21st, 2008What 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 […]
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“Old School” Real Estate vs “Tech Savvy” Agents
Friday, March 14th, 2008I have coffee every weekday morning with a group of guys at our local Starbucks. Yesterday our resident “Answer Man”, Gerry (Gerry is like 50 yrs old or so), ran across a young “Tech Savvy” Real Estate Agent in line with a rather unique hairdo….
“Tech Savvy” Real Estate Agent
…Ok, so while Gerry is staring at […]
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Learn to generate leads using Google Adwords and Zillow
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Lots of educational events going on these days for agents to learn techniques for how to stay competitive in the ever changing real estate market. Dustin has one, so does the team at Bloodhound and the SEO and Google Adwords trainers from Reachd have arranged to hold an exclusive event at Zillow that will focus […]
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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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Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia, and other leading companies agree to adopt a common data standard for real estate listings
Thursday, January 10th, 2008A few weeks ago Michael Wurzer of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) posted an open letter to the Yahoo!, Google, Zillow, and Trulia (David Harris touched on this here on GeekEstate too) requesting that we adopt and contribute to the RETS 2.0 standard. From my standpoint, this was great timing because for the […]
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New Zillow Logo
Thursday, January 10th, 2008Don’t worry that GeekEstate is turning into some sort of logo reporting blog (see previous post — New Inman Logo — if that makes no sense).
Last night Zillow.com pre-released some news to a few bloggers attended Inman Connect NYC that they were rolling out significant changes to the Zestimate algorithm, increased numebr of homes in […]
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Open Letter To Yahoo!, Google, Trulia, and Zillow, Encouraging Data Standards
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008As part of the newly elected Board of Directors of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO), I have accepted the challenge along with the other 9 Board members to construct a real estate data standard that can be beneficial for all parties involved: Agents, Brokers, MLSs, and the multitude of vendors serving all aspects.
Michael […]
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