Archive for July, 2008

Flip Sells a Million Video Cameras

And a fair number of those were bought by real estate professionals I suspect…
Last week at Real Estate Connect, the Flip came up in conversation numerous times and I can’t count how many of them I saw being wielded by content-hungry conference-goers over the three days in San Francisco.
That’s why I wasn’t surprised today when [...]

Connect with me at Connect

Right now my life feels a little like this motorcycle ride I took a few week’s back…

It’s all a bit of a blur.
Real Estate Connect SF 2008 kicks off in little less than 24 hours and I think it’s shaping up to be one of the best events we’ve put together. But, needless to say, [...]

Millions of Listings Oh My

Frontdoor.com, the upstart real estate search portal from media giant Scripps Network Interactive, continues to move forward. From their most recent press release:
Just six months after opening, FrontDoor.com, the real estate Web site powered by HGTV, continues to unlock home ownership information for users – now offering more than 3 million listings of homes for [...]

Get Your .Me Domain Today

Open registration for .Me domains starts to today. The domains, which were previously reserved for entities based in the country of Montenegro, are now available for anyone to purchase.
(Amusingly, .Me was assigned to Montenegro after is declared independence from the former Serbia and Montenegro which used the TLD .Yu… so .Me split from .Yu)
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Real Estate 2.0 Expands

The guys at 1000Watt have redrawn the Real Estate Web 2.0 mindmap. Make sure you go and check it out.

What’s impressive is that despite the gruesome economic news and horrific market conditions many in the industry are facing there is still so much innovation happening on the technology side.
I think this is going to be [...]

More Proof You Need to be Marketing Online

Yahoo! Inc., just released the results of a study they did on how the Internet influences home buyers and sellers and specifically how it influences consumers when it comes to selecting a real estate agent.
No great surprises in the results (which were tabulated from a survey of 500 participants)… Yahoo’s found that… Yes… the Internet [...]

Trulia Gets Beaucoup Bucks

Photo by Tracy O
Simmering resentment over Trulia’s SEO practices (see Trulia Caught Cloaking Red Handed) hasn’t stopped the search site from landing another $15 million in funding.
Deep Fork Capital LLC led the financing to top up Trulia’s reserves; Trulia’s other investors Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Fayez Sarofim & Co. also participated.
In the statement, Trulia [...]

Moo Launches Business Cards for Agents

Moo is one of my very favorite online printing companies. In fact, the first time I went to Inman’s Real Estate Connect (see Help Plan My Trip to Inman Connect NYC) I carried with me in my pocket a handful of Moo’s MiniCards with me that had my blog URL and contact information on it.
For [...]