After railing about multi-author blogs earlier this week (see Signaling A Retreat From Multi-Author Blogs) I’ve decided to be a total hypocrite and accept another voice on FOREM. Pot, meet kettle.
Steven Groves approached me today and asked me if I would like to publish a piece he’d written on Google’s OpenSocial initiative and [...]
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From Today’s Baltimore Sun - Slow realty market goes high-tech.
Video walk-throughs of homes are also more common - in part thanks to YouTube, which makes it easier to upload the finished product and put it on other sites. YouTube launched in 2005, the last year of the housing boom.
“The barriers to entry in terms [...]
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Especially for real estate media.
by In search of Syd
Curbed, the popular local real estate blog network run by ex-Gawker Media editor Lockhart Steele, recently obtained $1.5 million in financing, as reported today by the New York Times. (see Not All Is Gloomy in Real Estate: A Blog Network Attracts Capital). Rain City Guide [...]
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I unwittingly set off a firestorm of comments on my post about the impact of Google’s PageRank shift and my (mumbling) musings how it might affect traffic generating efforts like blog carnivals (see Is the link party over?).
by cromacom
But as I read more and more on the subject - one thing became increasingly clear. PageRank [...]
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by Gearhart*
We’ve known it was coming for a while… Zillow just announced their inaugural broker feed partner, bringing 80,000 listings from ERA Real Estate (a Realogy brand) into their database. More on the deal from Zillow Blog.
John Cook nailed it (see Zillow and ERA partner on listings) when he said that this announcement brings [...]
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by gill4kleuren
Community events like the Carnival of Real Estate and the Odysseus Medal are, on the surface, great ways to share new blog posts and highlight great writing from within the real estate blogosphere.
But let’s be honest for a second, the real value to all of these efforts is that they are great linkbait [...]
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Yeah… I don’t get it either. Or, I do, but think this is a harebrained idea at best.
Here’s the deal, you pay RIS Media $2,000/month to write their “local” news. In return, you get priority sponsor placement on that section and all the linking power of RIS Media to your website [...]
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My interview with Ashfaq Munshi of Terabitz from earlier this summer at Connect SF.
We’ll be shooting InmanTV at the upcoming NAR Conference and Expo in Las Vegas on November 14/15 and are looking for interview subjects. If you’re a vendor with an interesting product, someone who’s doing something cool with online real estate or a [...]
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Fun little daily videocast (think Rocketboom) about real estate in New York.
I’ll be watching a few more over the weekend. You can check out more of their videos on their web site at IntoTheBox.tv
I’ll also be catching up on TrueGotham TV.
Technorati Tags: video podcasts, real estate video, real estate, new york real estate
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by Curlylocks
Parks Associates research confirm what many of us already know intuitively; few people would pay to use social networking sites.
This online survey of Internet users found 72% of social networking users would stop using a site if required to pay a $2 monthly fee.
Duh.
Monetizing their communities is the big problem facing real estate [...]
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