Foursquare just surpassed the 10 million user mark. Facebook Places has become extremely popular quickly. Whether you “get” it or not people like checking in. A lot.
Quora has recently exploded onto the scene as a new breed of Q and A site with a social and transparent approach. People go to the web with questions, [...]
It is simply impossible to avoid. Buyers remorse seems to be ever more cruel when it comes to technology.
Picture this. You have made up your mind that it is finally time to buy a new camera/phone/laptop. You are done photographing your listings with your 5 megapixel point and shoot. Fed up with taking the battery [...]
I had an opportunity recently to speak with Jeff Bernheisel (@JBern) who is the the Marketing Director for M Realty in Portland. Jeff has a proven track record for Search Engine Optimization results for his company when it comes to VERY competitive search terms like “Portland Real Estate”.
Jeff has built several websites that dominate Google [...]
Guest blog post by Nathaniel Broughton
For the last 2 years, Google and Bing (the only search engines that matter) have become more aggressive in “suggesting” what keywords a user should search.
Picture this scenario. You’re sitting with the cursor in your favorite search engine’s search bar. You begin to type . . . and within a [...]
Guest Blogger, Kevin Lisota, is CEO & Co-founder of findwell, a real estate brokerage helping people buy and sell Seattle real estate. Kevin left a career at Microsoft to put his tech skills to use in real estate and can be found regularly on his Seattle real estate blog.
Every real estate agent wants to be [...]
This Easter weekend, if you get tired of chocolate bunnies and easter eggs, check out some of these cool smart phone apps!
Here are my 5 favorite Easter apps:
Dress Eggy (FREE) – Dress up your virtual egg with fun patterns, icing designs, cute backgrounds and fonts. When you’re done, record a message that gets [...]
I am always impressed with a company that has a unique idea and value proposition.
Home improvement is always a hot topic – and usually something that Realtors know a good deal about. As a Realtor, you know how important an upgraded kitchen or bath can be when listing a home, or how it pays to scrape the “popcorn” [...]
There are a lot of exciting things coming out in the next few weeks – here are my top 3:
1. Like it? Hate it? The iPad which drew a ton of rumors and speculation is ready to make it’s debut. The 1st commercial aired during the Academy Awards (which explains why Steve Jobs was on [...]
On the iPhone at least. Android and other smartphone platforms have had livestreaming video apps for a while now. But the tide has finally turned in the favor of iPhone users too – as Ustream has finally had its app approved for distribution in iTunes (app store link).
For me, this release culminates three of the [...]
Coldwell Banker introduced a fresh take on real estate search today with the launch of its new web site at beta.coldwellbanker.com. Besides a tarted-up user interface, the new site offers a couple of intriguing new ideas that I think push the innovation needle in the right direction.
The first of which is the new site now [...]
