Local businesses and reviews are now getting prominent billing in Google’s search results, supplanting even the highest organic search engine results. From the Official Google Blog: Find and compare local businesses
From now on, you’ll see this every time you search for a place, business, or other local information. In addition to providing the basic contact [...]
My blog got a quick mention in the International Herald Tribune recently, in their piece Real estate goes beyond the Internet listing:
Chatty online forums like those at Internationalliving.com, Yahoo and Google already have had effects on international real estate, but the blogging “gold rush” is just beginning, Joel Burslem, who blogs about the future of [...]
my-currency is a site that launches later this week at the DEMO conference in Palm Desert, California. It’s hoping to out-Zillow a Zestimate by tapping into social media; blogs, wikis and user generated content to help finesse a home’s value.
The idea is that the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ will be far more accurate than any [...]
2007 is going to be the year of the widget.
What’s a widget, you say?
A web widget is a chunk of code than you can easily cut and paste and drop onto any web page to add additional features or functionality to your web site.
Using widgets, you can easily decorate your MySpace page, blog or web [...]
I recently picked up a Samsung Blackjack and am grooving on its 3G Internet access. I’m curious though, does anyone know if there’s a Windows Mobile application that’ll let me post to my blog from the road?
I can tether it to my Macbook fairly easy to act as a high speed modem, but I [...]
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The Chicago Tribune writes about an agent with @Properties, a Chicago area brokerage, that has launched a new coffee bar she’s opened that incorporates the broker’s branding. Home shoppers can suck down a latte and use their laptops on the free WIFI connection to browse listings in the area.
The reporter called on [...]
I listened in on the Inman News Audio Conference today that focused online marketing strategies. It was well worth it and if you have the chance, I’d highly recommend sitting in on one of the calls in the future.
The panel discussed many of the themes that I have been writing about on this blog and [...]
Anyone else seeing this? Trulia.com isn’t responding…
Update: Back up again. Must’ve just been a server burp.
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From today’s Seattle PI, HouseValues Inc. eliminates 60 jobs
HouseValues also announced Wednesday that President and Chief Operating Officer Clayton Lewis will be leaving the company, joining a parade of executives — including Mark Jancola and Jun Choo — who have left in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Barry Allen, a former top executive at Cendant Corp.’s Move.com, [...]
Today, I am excited to launch a new service for followers of Real Estate 2.0 and for all readers of this site.
The Future of Real Estate Jobs is a job board that hopefully will help connect those who love real estate and real estate technology with the companies who are looking for those same [...]
