By Joel Burslem on Friday, December 22, 2006 Filed Under: BloggingTags: Gone-Snowboarding, Vacation, Xmas
I’m off on vacation until the new year, so there will be limited posting over the next week or so.
Wishing you and your families the very best over the holidays.
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By Joel Burslem on Thursday, December 21, 2006 Filed Under: Quick Hit
Virtual Realtor Ansher Chung, who bills herself as “Your global leader in virtual real estate” was forced to abandon a talk she was giving in a public forum in Second Life, presumably because people were upset at the amount the money she has made buying and selling real estate in the metaverse.
Virtual real [...]
By Joel Burslem on Thursday, December 21, 2006 Filed Under: Marketing
In my post for Tuesday’s Yankee Blog Swap, I wrote about adopting a new marketing paradigm that pairs your offline marketing efforts with keywords you can own through online search.
Pay-per-Click (PPC) advertising through programs like Google’s AdWords or Yahoo! Search Marketing (see Panama Makes It Easy To Yahdvertise) can be a very effective way to [...]
By Joel Burslem on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Filed Under: InternetTags: Ask, Ask.com, AskCity, LendingTree.com, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, real-estate-search, Real-Estate-web-site, RealEstate.com, trulia, trulia.com
Clickz gives us a little tidbit today that financial and real estate data is coming to AskCity.
The AskCity service, launched earlier this month as a standalone destination for local search and mapping features with business listings, events, and movie listings, will be expanded in 2007 to offer data from LendingTree.com and CitySearch, two IAC-owned properties [...]
Ten years ago tomorrow, one of my childhood heroes, Carl Sagan, passed away. In remembrance, Joel Schlosberg has announced that tomorrow will be the Carl Sagan memorial blog-a-thon.
Explains his son, Nick Sagan:
The goal here is to make December 20th a blogosphere-wide celebration of the life and works of Carl Sagan. So if you’re a Carl [...]
By Joel Burslem on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Filed Under: Industry NewsTags: Mary-McNight, Real Estate Blogs, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, Real-Estate-Blog, real-estate-poll, real-estate-technology, RSS-Pieces, technology-predictions, Yankee-Blog-Swap
You can find me over at RSS Pieces today. Mary McKnight is here in my place.
First, I want to say that I am honored and humbled to post on the very first real estate technology site to make my RSS feed reader. What not even Joel may know is that Future of Real [...]
The Yankee Blog Swap is here tomorrow. Make sure you check out all the participants.
Transparent Real Estate’s Pat Kitano vs. Zillow’s Drew Meyers
RSS Pieces’ Mary McKnight vs. Future of Real Estate Marketing’s Joel Burslem
St Paul Real Estate Blog’s Teresa Boardman vs. Phoenix Real Estate Guy’s Jay Thompson
3 Ocean Real Estate’s Kevin Boer vs. SLC Real [...]
Redfin Hires Michael Young as Chief Technology Officer
Online real estate broker Redfin Corporation today announced the hiring of Michael Young as chief technology officer. Mr. Young brings to Redfin a long history as a leader and an architect at successful start-ups.
Buried in the release, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman hints at expansion plans for the Seattle-based [...]
By Joel Burslem on Monday, December 18, 2006 Filed Under: Marketing
Interesting case study from the North Jersey Record, profiling a homeowner’s attempt to sell their house online.
Six months ago, an appraiser put the value of the house at $419,000. Tina had the Web site up and running by the beginning of November. She included loads of pictures, room dimensions, amenities in the Ringwood area and [...]
By Joel Burslem on Saturday, December 16, 2006 Filed Under: BloggingTags: 5-things
My turn. Drew Meyers memed me.
So here are 5 things you may not know about me:
1. I lived in Ulsan, South Korea for three years where I founded the first English language monthly magazine in the city. Ulsan is also home to Hyundai Heavy Industries, the biggest shipyard the World.
2. I have a black belt [...]