Archive for September, 2006

Friday Fun: The Suburban Name Generator

Builders and developers, are you struggling with what to name your next development? Middle Earth-themed neighborhoods not going to fly in your neck of the woods?
Check out The Suburban Name Generator…
e.g.
Windsor Place
Narrative: The word windsor is another one of those English Royalty words that translates into “cha ching” for developers. While place is [...]

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mRealty: House Shopping by Phone

Browsing through RealEstateVoices this morning and I stumbled across this article from MSN Money, Cell-phone service puts ‘a realtor in your pocket’.

Smarter Agent, through a new partnership with Sprint, promises to display recently sold home data through a GPS-enabled phone. The premise is intriguing, but I’d have to see it firsthand before I become a [...]

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RealEstateVoices Offers Social Real Estate News

Further to my post several weeks ago, Where Do You Get Your Real Estate News?, I was contacted by Niki Scevak, founder of Homethinking.com about a new project he was undertaking.

RealEstateVoices is a social real estate news website that officially launched today. It’s a Digg-like site based on the open source project Pligg, that replicates [...]

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Picking up the slack

I’m slammed with offline work today, so thankfully a couple of other real estate bloggers are going above and beyond and picking up my slack.
Ardell and Greg are going head to head in Sellsius’ 101 Blog post challenge. Greg seems to be in the lead right now, but both are posting some great stuff. Way [...]

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Windermere and Google Base Team Up

Windermere’s new PropertyPoint 3 home search tool, which I wrote about a few weeks ago, launched today with another added bonus. All of the broker’s properties will also be automatically uploaded to Google Base. As Geoff Wood, Windermere’s CEO ungrammatically puts it:
“Where your customers are is where you need to be”
Google is undeniably the premier [...]

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Carnival of Real Estate

Carnival. Matrix. Go.
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Too Busy To Blog? Pay Someone To Do It For You

Too busy to maintain your real estate blog?
Have trouble coming up with new content for your blog?
Just plain lazy?

K2 Bloggers is a service that will blog for you. For a fee, of course….
Finding this site kind of saddens me. But honestly, it doesn’t surprise me. It was only a matter of time before the snake [...]

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MyRealtyBlog: Real Estate 2.0 Exemplified?

Here’s something to check out over the weekend.
At first glance, My Realty Blog seems filled with all kinds of Real Estate 2.0 goodies to get a real estate professional on line - Google Map mashups, Zillow Zestimate data, blogging, RSS feeds… they even toss in some AJAX and gradiants for good measure.
I wonder what real [...]

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Real Living’s Take on Zillow

Midwest-based broker, Real Living has announced that it has integrated Zillow.com data and valuations on its web site. No news here you say. Loads of companies have incorporated Zillow API, right?

Well think again. Check out how they’ve put them to use. I think it’s excellent.
I love how they’ve successfully tapped into the whole controversy around [...]

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Fear of Click Fraud is Back

Steve Rubel points to a new BusinessWeek investigation into Click Fraud. You can read the full article here. I wrote about this back in July in my post Click Fraud Could Spoil the Internet Advertising Party. I think many of the concerns I highlighted back then, still ring true.

I’m an advertiser. I think I’m like [...]

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