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An old lawsuit over real estate search patents has resurfaced again.
Florida inventor Mark Tornetta and Real Estate Alliance LTD (REAL), who owns Tornetta’s patents (Nos. 4,480,576 and 5,032,989), have announced today they have moved in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to sue the industry’s largest trade association and several national brokerages, [...]
I’ve had a few days to play around with Realtor.com’s new Neighborhood tool and I like a lot of what I see so far. But I’ll get the obvious criticisms out of the way first; it really, really doesn’t play very well yet with Firefox in OSX (or at all in Safari) - there are [...]
by Curlylocks
Parks Associates research confirm what many of us already know intuitively; few people would pay to use social networking sites.
This online survey of Internet users found 72% of social networking users would stop using a site if required to pay a $2 monthly fee.
Duh.
Monetizing their communities is the big problem facing real estate [...]
by Kevin Steele
Watch out! Catfight breaking out!
Earlier this year, ActiveRain, the popular social networking site for Realtors, was about to be acquired by Move.com, the owners of Realtor.com. Right at the eleventh hour however, Move.com pulled out of the deal.
All of this has come out in a lawsuit that is detailed in today’s Inman News.
Terms [...]
The lumbering beast that is Move.com is slowly transforming itself and just like a snake, it’s shedding it’s skin - but can it really get rid itself of an overwhelmingly negative reputation in this industry?
I think it’s trying to, with some degree of success.
They’ve scored some small scale PR victories of late with initiatives like [...]
Hitwise, the Internet traffic ranking service, just released its US Real Estate Report for February 2007. The report is based on a sample audience of 10 million US Internet users. It’s kind of like Nielsen numbers for the ‘Net.
Top 30 Real Estate Websites
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My observations:
Move.com is on the [...]
Several weeks ago, I was contacted by Red Herring Magazine to comment on a piece they were working on about the new crop of Web 2.0 real estate companies. [Interestingly, only days after I spoke with the reporter, she announced she had moved over to tech-industry blogger Om Malik's new site GigaOm.]
You can read it [...]
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