On Wednesday, January 27, Apple will likely unveil the company’s long-rumored tablet device. Apple sent out invitations to selected media outlets yesterday morning, asking people to “join us for an invitation-only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on January 27 at 10:00 a.m.
Rumored to be anywhere from $500-$1000 [...]
A couple of years ago I postulated that video would eventually kill the virtual tour (see Inman Connect Highlights Real Estate 2.0) – and, for the most part, that seems to have happened. The seemingly ubiquitous (at the time) 360 spin-and-puke photo tour has largely been replaced these days by Ken Burns-like slide shows and full [...]
Greetings FOREM readers!
I am really excited to be a featured writer on FOREM’s blog. I have been a reader and admirer of this blog for some time and am thrilled with the opportunity to contribute! It is an honor to write along side Joel Burslem. I am equally as excited about my new position as [...]
New York-based broker Corcoran Group has launched a new iPhone application to help real estate consumers connect with properties.
The app is very well executed and joins StreetEasy and Redfin as among my favorite real estate apps.
To promote the new app, they commissioned Swedish artist Kari Modin to illustrate the key features of app. The ads [...]
Altos Research has released four new WordPress Plugins that make it dead simple to go deep in to the numbers and create data rich local market blogs.
Altos is among many real estate data providers out there, but is unique in that many of its core products cater to individual Realtors rather than large institutional or [...]
Terabitz has been very quiet lately.
A refresher for those of you might not have heard of the company – they launched in 2007 to much fanfare (see Terabitz Gives You Loads of Data) — as a sort of “Netvibes for real estate” — but the company made hard tack to starboard in the years since [...]
Augmented Reality (AR) is definitely one of the hot new mobile technologies right now. Augmented reality, simply put, is the layering of data on top of the visual output from a smartphone’s camera. This has big implications for all kinds of local search tools, but particularly in real estate.
Layar is a European company that has [...]
PhotoSketch is a mind-blowing project from a group of computer science students in China, who have created software that will take your hand drawn sketch, search the web for corresponding images and then stitch them all together into a brand new composite image.
A video demonstration from their paper shows the software in action.
While only tangentially [...]
French company MeilleurAgents.com (”best agents”) has released a mobile Android application that displays the value of every single building in Paris (value is displayed in price per square meter). Here’s a quick video demonstrating it in action:
The application is very similar to Zillow’s iPhone app (see Zillow Takes Zestimates to the Streets); which also displays home [...]
Apture is one of the coolest plugins I’ve stumbled across in a long while.
It allows you to instantly add rich, dimensional media to your blog or website by integrating text, images, video, maps, music and much more from over 50 sources; including Wikipedia, Flickr, NY Times, YouTube, Twitter and many others.
In the data rich environment [...]
