Category Archives: Links for Geeks

For those who missed them, here are a few articles/announcements from this week that may be of interest: WalkScore released a new WordPress plugin (downloadable here) Where is Real Estate’s PIE? – I’m working on a separate post with more of my thoughts on this topic Zillow Announced they made $1.6 Million in Profit in Q2 On Discovery

SEO, the Real Estate Blog, and Competition — As usual when Rob writes, it’s a great thought provoking read. And, wow, I wish I had time to write my thoughts on this one right now, but I’ve got to get ready for my flight from Kenya to Ghana From Joel at 1000Watt – Touching the future of Web user experience & With so many real estate questions, there are too many answers

Microsoft Barks WOFF Street View Captures UK Woman 43 Times! Win an iPad! Flip Wants To Score With a Slide Twitter Gets Aggressive With Their Mobile Strategy Dustin Luther: “Anything Else on Facebook is Just Work Avoidance” What’s In a Word? Fan Becomes Like, Web Site Becomes WebSite

Supra To Support iPhone Charlie Rose Show and Steve Jobs Demo Zillow iPad App iPhone 4.0 OS and new SDK announced Mashable Provides Sneak Peek of Twitter Redesign Real Estate WordCamp This Weekend Zeek Interactive & Jeff Turner Live Blog RE Barcamp Phoenix Today Jeff is testing a new WP Plug-In working with the iPhone under development at Zeek.

This Week’s “Links For Geeks”. Zillow Launches An iPad application. New Yahoo! app “sketches” the future of real estate search Why should you care about an API? Leading MLSs Form Association to Seek ‘.MLS’ Top-Level Domain Location, Location, Location (A post regarding GeoFencing and More)

I’ve decided to carry on with Drew’s “Links for Geeks” feature. I’ve identified a few gems from my feed reader that perhaps you haven’t seen in the past week. How To Set Up a Self Hosted WP Blog Steve at Zeek Interactive (The Company Behind Real Estate Shows) has a concise and simple outline for hosting your own WP blog at Go Daddy. USB Wall Adapters How many times have you wanted to charge your iPhone and felt too lazy to hunt down your adapter? … Read More »

We all know the benefits of a killer domain name, but the online real estate market is so crowded and competitive it seems that all the great names are taken.  Instead of just placing a backorder for a domain and hoping, take a look at Mike Davidson’s post: How To Snatch An Expiring Domain. He thoroughly examines the surprisingly complex world behind grabbing expired domains, referred to as “getting in on the Drop”.  The whole article is worth a read, and full of useful knowledge … Read More »

Creating A Conduit Toolbar for Internet Browsers Conduit.com is a site that allows you to create a “custom” toolbar that works with popular Internet browsers like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.  The toolbar can be custom created from scratch, then offered as an additional tool allowing users a direct interface or “Conduit” to the most valuable and important segments and links of your Blog or website. Having a custom toolbar available to readers can add extra value to those who regularly visit your … Read More »

Here is an excerpt from my last post… Web 3.0 – Discussion #1 – “OMG, I Never Thought of That!” (Nov. 20th 09) I wrote the 1st post (Nov. 2nd 09) “Web 3.0 – A Post Intended to “Define” & “Design”, here on Geek Estate Blog, because I felt it was the best venue to begin an open discussion on a difficult, Technology related, topic and here I am with my 1st follow up post resulting from the very 1st comment I received on my … Read More »

Here are a few links worth a look: Arterial traffic available on Google Maps Brokerage Models: A Mathematical Analysis, Part 2 If a small midwestern brokerage can do it, you can too 5 Social Media Lessons Learned From Whole Foods