Listings Syndication
“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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Yahoo!, Zillow, and Trulia Making Progress on a Common Data Standard
Monday, February 11th, 2008Back in January, you might have read the news of the upcoming common data standard that Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia are working on, and I have an update to share — there is significant progress being made!! There’s a big meeting today down at Trulia’s offices in the Bay Area — Rudy at Trulia has details […]
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Super Bowl XLII, Real Estate and Consumers
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008It seems like yesterday the University of Phoenix Stadium (Home of Arizona Cardinals) was heavy in construction. Now it’s poised to serve as home to Super Bowl XLII with both teams landed and engaging practice here as of Monday. The event (along with the FBR / Phoenix Open) should bring millions to the […]
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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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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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Feed generation annoyances
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007As a web developer, I have the fun of creating feeds for different agents to use as a means to get their listings onto some of the bigger listing web sites (Trulia, Zillow, formerly edgeio, Vast, etc.). All of these sites have different specifications as to how to format the feed but a few […]
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One Fewer Place to Upload Your Listings - Edgeio Going Under
Monday, December 10th, 2007Last week, Techcrunch reported that Edgeio is shutting down. Edgeio was an online classifieds site that spanned housing, autos, jobs, merchandise, and jobs. The fact that they will be ceasing operations soon means there is now one less online destination where you can upload your listing information.
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Don’t Have a XML Feed Set Up? Where to Go to Get Started
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Setting up an XML feed for your listings is a great way to get added exposure for your listings by syndicating them to a variety of real estate portals.
Since I’m helping support the coming Zillow Listings Feed program, I’ve had conversations with agents, brokers, and technology providers. One thing that I’ve heard is that, while […]
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Postlets - One Option to Syndicate Your Listings
Monday, October 1st, 2007Postlets is certainly one of the companies you can utilize should you wish to syndicate your listings around the web. Asher Matsuda and Raymond Chen started Postlets about 2 years ago as a side project — and are still plugging away with development while continually adding customers. I got the chance to ask Asher several […]
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Technology Providers that can Syndicate Your Real Estate Listings
Thursday, September 6th, 2007I think it’s safe to say many local real estate markets are now buyers markets — NAR published a press release saying that, at the end of July, inventory of (existing) homes available for sale had reached 9.6 months of supply. For real estate agents, this likely means you’re finding it harder then ever to […]
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