Archive for November, 2006

Edgeio to Take on Trulia and Realtor.com

Edgeio, the online classifieds site has acquired Adaptive Real Estate Services, reports VentureBeat:
it has acquired the assets of Adaptive Real Estate Services, a company built over the past several years by father and son team Robert and Peter Meyer — and which has patiently built up relationships with brokers and agents in 70 of the [...]

PBS Tackles the Bubble Blogs

PBS.org’s MediaShift covers the real estate blogging phenomenon in an interesting piece called Newspaper, Bubble Blogs Feed the Real Estate Obsession. Host Mark Glaser focuses specifically on the Bubble Blogs, but is kind enough to throw a link in our direction too.
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Realtor.com Loses Northwest MLS

From the Seattle PI, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service dumps Realtor.com
The Northwest Multiple Listing Service will stop sending its home listings to the nation’s most popular real estate Web site in April. Local real estate executives disagree over whether the move is about focusing the MLS on providing information to its members or making [...]

Redfin Recreating Curbed for the Northwest

I’m not sure how I missed this, but it might have something to do with all the Nyquil.
Steve Jagger at Ubertor Real Estate Blog points out that Redfin is looking to hire real estate bloggers. (Thanks to Greg for pointing this out)
The goal is to create an insanely addictive blog about everything that moves in [...]

Kuler is Cool

A quick follow up to my post 5 Great Ways to Improve Your Designs – Adobe just launched a great Flash site for designers called kuler (pronounced cooler?) that allow you to create and share color schemes. You can also download any of the existing schemes on the site for use with Creative Suite 2 [...]

Winter Bugs

I’m fighting off a nasty cold, so blog posting may light over the next few days. Or at least until my head clears…
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Big Dog Gets Louder

Bloodhound Blog, home to Greg Swann and Cathleen Collins, is one of my favorite daily reads. They’ve recently added Russell Shaw, and today added three more voices: Jeff Brown, Tony Fredericks and Richard Riccelli. Welcome guys!
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Buy Now Campaign Doesn't Cut the Mustard

I’m not a big fan of NAR’s recent advertising campaign (Buy a House, Or The Dog Gets It). Not because I have a problem with what they are trying to say – rather how they’re saying it.
I think it’s uninspired, creatively boring and woefully out of touch.
$41 million for a drab, dreary black and white [...]

You'll Shoot Your Eye Out

Just in time for the holidays…
Fan restores ‘Christmas Story’ house
Jones has restored the three-story, wood-frame house to its appearance in the movie and will open it for tours beginning Saturday. His hope is that it will become a tourist stop alongside the city’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and other destinations.
I love that movie. [...]

5 Great Ways to Improve Your Designs

Going in to the holiday weekend, I know I’m going to be spending at least some of my vacation trying to catch up on some of the many side projects I’ve got going on. So, I thought that I would leave you with some of the design-related links that I use everyday to help me [...]