Category: Friday Fun

Fun Friday: Looking to be inspired? See you at the movies!

I love going to the movies. I love the whole experience; the popcorn, the soda, the previews, being a part of the big audience, getting caught up in the plot, etc. Being a big fan of marketing, I always love a movie a little bit more if it has a great business theme or does [...]

Fun Friday: Microsoft sends flowers to the IE6 funeral

Yesterday, the “IE6 funeral” took place in Denver. This is what appeared on the funeral site:
Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of [...]

Fun Friday: Top 5 Real Estate Social Media Blunders

I’m sure none of our loyal FOREM member commit any of these ‘blunders’ – but just in case… I figured it would be fun to do a little post about it today.
Feel free to pass this onto anyone “not following the rules!”

Top 5 Real Estate Social Media Blunders:
1.    Talking about yourself to no [...]

Fun Friday: Top 5 Valentines iPhone Apps

Wondering which iPhone Valentine’s apps to check out? Here are 5 fun ones to download for this weekend!

1. Candy Hearts lite – This free app is perfect for those who love the idea of candy hearts but don’t want to eat any empty calories.
2.  iXplode – Valentine’s Day – This $.99 app is the perfect [...]

Friday Fun: Top 3 Things Realtors Will Learn from Super Bowl Sunday Marketing

Super Bowl Sunday is an ‘All American’ pastime. Whether you gather to watch the game or gather to watch the ads – either way, advertisers know that a lot of people are watching. It’s estimated that last year over 93M people tuned in.

However, this year, a lot of big names like Pepsi are scaling way [...]

Friday Fun – A little Apple iPad humor

This week every major tech blog has been buzzing about the iPad. Thank you to all the FOREM members who posted comments here as well as on our Facebook page. It was really exciting to see all the online chatter going on across the nation, as people waited to hear about ‘the big announcement.’ Whether [...]

Realestate.com Goes Social, Launches Town Square

Realestate.com, the online real estate destination owned by the online mortgage giant LendingTree, rolled out a new sitewide redesign last week.
The new design is clean, fast and eminently usable. And while not as tricked out as some of its competitors, the site is a very capable competitor. Results are returned in a very easy to [...]

FOREM Quick Reads 03.20.09

Every Friday, I will be sharing a roundup of choice links to stories/posts that have caught my eye each week. Here’s a few from the last couple of days.

Sara Bonert – 10 Ways Real Estate Professionals Can Use Zillow v2.0 (some great tools here from Zillow)
4realz.net – 4 Levels of Social Media Connections (great series [...]

The Future of Virtual Tours?

A bit of fun today. This visually stunning short film tells the story of a man who builds a virtual world for the woman he loves using a tool that looks to be a mashup of Google Sketchup and the interface seen in Minority Report (also see Navigating a Virtual World). But with a little imagination [...]

Bad Week for Trulia

First the news that they’re getting beaten handily by their rivals Zillow in the traffic game (see John Cook’s post on TechFlash).
According to Zillow’s COO Spencer Rascoff, Zillow pulled in 7,529,360 visitors in January. A pretty impressive achievement.
Compounding the situation for the big T though, comes news yesterday that Trulia’s city results have dropped out [...]