Archive for May, 2007

Facebook Could Make or Break Real Estate 2.0

Drew Meyers is right. Facebook is Completely Changing the Internet. Mark Zuckerberg has said that he wants to build the first social media OS and with the F8 release last week, he’s done just that.
To recap. Facebook’s F8 release means anyone can build an application on top of the social network and have it distributed [...]

Surface Technology Could Save Full Service Brokers

If you haven’t seen it already, Microsoft’s announcement of a new surface computing platform (more from TechCrunch in Microsoft Announces Surface Computer) promises to finally deliver a truly interactive computing experience (see Navigating a Virtual World). While not a purely original idea, e.g. Perceptive Pixel has been doing similar work with multi-touch screens for the [...]

Video Update for Project Blogger

An update on Rancho Santa Margarita Lifestyles.
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Building a New Real Estate Home Page

Brokers, so how are you going to deal with Google’s Universal Search?
How are people going to find your site? If you didn’t already realize it, you’re already scrapping it out for increasingly limited screen space.
Google has already dropped local search results into its organic search results (see Google Implements Local Search Results). Take a search [...]

Google Case Study is Live

Google recently called on me to give a quote for a case study they were writing on their Maps API (see New Blog to Keep an Eye On) and the case study is now live at Google Code. I’m a little bummed they didn’t give me a hyperlink but oh well, what can you do?
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A Meeting of the Minds

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I attended a local gathering of bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers tonight in downtown Portland at the Wieden & Kennedy headquarters. It was hosted by Marshall Kirkpatrick, former Techcrunch blogger and now director of content at SplashCast. The topic was “Problems and Solutions in Social Media Production” and covered many diverse aspects of [...]

Why Having Real Estate Video Distribution Strategy Matters

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Whether it’s a Ken Burns style slideshow you’ve created yourself (see Tip Tuesday: Creating a Killer Listing Presentation) or a professionally shot and edited production (see WellcomeMat – The Killer App for Real Estate Video), real estate video just got a whole lot more important.
Why? Two words. Universal Search. From Google’s Press Release [...]

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Stop What You're Doing – Read this Post

Matt Carter on the Inman News Blog and his take on the future of real estate. Some of the best analysis I’ve read recently.
Granted, I’m biased (full disclosure: I work for Inman News) – but seriously, go read.
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