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The 69th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at John Barker’s Mortgage Blog.

Though Denny Oh has already written several posts here, I’d like to take a moment to officially welcome Denny to the GeekEstate Blog team as a regular contributor — you’ll notice his photo now resides on the sidebar along with all of our other fantastic contributors. Denny is a agent with Prudential California Realty working [...]

I’m about to jump on a plane for Vegas and the NAR conference. This is my first visit to Sin City (yes, ever!) but it’s unfortunately also going to be a quick one - home tomorrow - things are busy (especially without Drew around.) Before I leave though, I wanted to remind all the geeks [...]

My head spun when I saw this video. It shows how Dash GPS has begun to mashup open API’s from the web and putting them into GPS navigation devices. The video shows the users driving around Silicon Valley looking at home values from Zillow as they drive by homes.
If you’re a Realtor…YOU WANT THIS NOW!!! [...]

The 66th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the Real Estate Convergence.

By now, many of you have probably heard of OpenSocial (part of the reason Google’s stock is now above $700). OpenSocial is said to be Google’s answer to Facebook and has been all over the blogosphere the last several days. What exactly is it?
OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple [...]

iPods. Treo 700p. Torents. Guitar Hero. Jager Bombs. Flash Drives. Wikipedia. Google Earth. Rehab (not the AA kind). 802.11a/b/g/n. SMS/MMS.
If you just read this and have no idea what I’m talking about, then chances are, you’re not part of my generation. What is my generation? Well, depending on who you ask, having been [...]

The 65th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the Arizona Mortgage Guru.

The 64th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the RE Revealed.

I’m going to say the answer is definitely yes (and not just iPhone development). So, I guess the question becomes what impact will it have?
On Wednesday, Inman News put out a 3-part series titled “Mobile matters in real estate” that I thought was worth highlighting.

Part 1 - Agents, consumers connect with mobile technology

Congrats to fellow [...]

I just wanted to say thanks to Drew for inviting me to be a contributor to the GeekState blog and to quickly introduce myself. For those who don’t know, I am one of the co-founders of vFlyer where I am responsible for marketing, partnerships and the company’s blog.
Aaron Sperling and I launched vFlyer almost a [...]

The 63rd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the Agent Genius.