Last week I stumbled across a really interesting and easy-to-use personalized search plugin – Kikin.
Kikin, plugin you download for your browser, was launched in late 2009 and is still in beta form. When you search on Google, Bing or Yahoo – in addition to your regular search results, it will also aggregate relevant content from: [...]
Great news. The deadline for early bird registration for next year’s Real Estate Connect conference in New York has been extended for another week.
Plus if you register use the coupon code FOREM and you’ll save an extra $100.
Connect is by far the leading technology conference in Real Estate. There’s always a fantastic line-up of speakers… [...]
The Realtors Property Resouce (RPR) is likely the most important technology story of the last few years. And it will probably be the most closely watched story for the next couple of years too.
What is the the RPR? Brian Boero from 1000Watt Blog sums it up nicely.
The NAR has taken over certain technology assets of [...]
A guest post from Tim Fagan, CEO of HomeFinder.com
A while back I was in the audience at an industry conference when a woman on stage asked this question: “At the end of the day, do any of these online real estate companies really help anyone buy or sell a home?”
My initial reaction – as someone [...]
Says CEO Glenn Kelman, via Techcrunch
…the run rate is around $15 million. 2007 revenues were $5 million, 2006 revenues were $1 million.
Congrats to all the folks at Redfin. Their model, while clearly controversial, seems to be succeeding.
Their web site is world class (see 10 Kick Ass Real Estate Search Sites) and the company has pushed [...]
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 [...]
The nice folks at Scripps sent me an email fleshing out more detail about Frontdoor’s Facebook Connect integration. I’ve excerpted a few sections below since they give some greater context to the feature.
As you surmised, the Facebook Connect rollout is a work in progress. Truth be told, we’re about 50% finished with the actual [...]
A guest perspective from Ashfaq Munshi, co-founder and CEO of Terabitz.
Tough times call for critical thinking.
Real estate broker – if you are dedicated to the brick-and-mortar brokerage office, but seek to change it up either to reduce cost or create an environment that infuses a spirit of change for customers and agents, you are not [...]
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 [...]
I’m slowly catching up from beneath a mountain of interesting news that was announced over the last week.
One such item is that HomeScape has rebranded itself as HomeFinder.com – presumably to respark some enthusiasm for a brand that, for all intents and purposes, has been off most people’s radar for the last few years.
HomeFinder.com is [...]
