Archive for March, 2008

Real Estate Marketing Trend : HDR Photography

by bhophoto
HDR (High dynamic range) photography is when you take a series of photographs each shot at a different exposure setting and then use post-processing software (like Photoshop CS2) to combine the images into a single picture.
You can see the stunning results by wading through the HDR Pool on Flickr (which includes some beautiful [...]

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Trulia Launches iPhone Version

Realtor.com has an iPhone version of their site (available at iphone.realtor.com) and now Trulia has joined the party and released an iPhone ready version of their search tools; complete with a tongue-in-cheek video to promote it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZI1UE92eeg

Unlike Realtor.com’s version however, it doesn’t look like Trulia’s site is a custom theme for iPhone’s mobile Safari. (Shameless plug: [...]

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YouTube Gives You Stats on Your Videos

YouTube is giving video creators a deeper look at the viewing trends of the videos the publish on the site. From the Official Google Blog:
…uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period [...]

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Using Twitter to Listen to Your Customers

Like many in the real estate blogosphere I’ve been playing around with Twitter a lot recently. (Follow me here jburslem)
I wrote a post on the Inman Blog recently where I described one application of the service; how you could use it to subscribe to news and essentially build a real time teleprinter for your [...]

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Redfin’s Business Model Better for Consumers

So the company claims. If you use its services you will save over $15K says Glenn Kelman on the Redfin Blog, quoting results of a new analysis of their business model:

Redfin home-buyers over the past twelve months paid on average 1.015% below homes’ asking price, while customers of other brokerages paid .087% below asking price.
This [...]

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PDX RE Meetup Next Friday at Touche

OK. So I finally found a place that would take us all and wasn’t going to charge us an arm and a leg for the privilege of us using their facility.
So here are the final details:

When
March 28, 2008
6pm to 8pm

Where:
Touche Restaurant & Bar
1425 NW Glisan St (14th and Glisan)
Portland, Oregon

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If you need a [...]

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Zillow Launches Hot or Not for Real Estate

I’m going to disagree with Dustin (see Zillow gives us some remodeling porn), Zillow’s new Dueling Digs game isn’t that much fun.
But I suspect I’m not the target market for this sort of game. Online real estate is strictly a utilitarian activity for me (wow, the presbyterian Scot in me really comes out with that [...]

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Mark Your Calendars

There are some really great real estate events coming up in the next couple of weeks, so I thought I’d highlight them for FOREM readers. If you want to stay on top of all that’s going on, make sure you subscribe to the Real Estate Group Calendar on Upcoming.org

REtech South - Matt Fagioli and Brad [...]

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An Embarassment of Riches

Observing online real estate often feels like I’m staring at a strange bizarro world.
Take for instance these two headlines today.
First, Zillow lands first MLS deal. (Guess they weren’t happy letting Trulia and Frontdoor hog the limelight over the last couple of weeks.)
At the same time, Connecticut statewide MLS launches public site.
Huh? Worlds are starting to [...]

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PDX RE Meetup

[ March 28, 2008 6:00 pm to March 29, 2008 8:00 am. ] Time: 6-8pmLocation: TBD RSVP on Upcoming.org

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