This post is a total plug.
If you don’t like commercial pitches, don’t care what I do from day to day, hate Inman News and are otherwise disinterested, move on. Go ahead and hit that J key in your reader…
The rest of you, we’ve spent a lot of this week working on this summer’s Connect conference [...]
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RealEstate-turk.com launched today and is an interesting new service that leverages the power of a distributed user base to complete one of the most unpleasant real estate-related tasks online, finding a new home.
Much like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, RealEstate-turk is all about crowd sourcing your home search. For a flat fee (pricing to be announced separately) [...]
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YouTube is giving video creators a deeper look at the viewing trends of the videos the publish on the site. From the Official Google Blog:
…uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period [...]
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Like many in the real estate blogosphere I’ve been playing around with Twitter a lot recently. (Follow me here jburslem)
I wrote a post on the Inman Blog recently where I described one application of the service; how you could use it to subscribe to news and essentially build a real time teleprinter for your [...]
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I’m going to disagree with Dustin (see Zillow gives us some remodeling porn), Zillow’s new Dueling Digs game isn’t that much fun.
But I suspect I’m not the target market for this sort of game. Online real estate is strictly a utilitarian activity for me (wow, the presbyterian Scot in me really comes out with that [...]
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There are some really great real estate events coming up in the next couple of weeks, so I thought I’d highlight them for FOREM readers. If you want to stay on top of all that’s going on, make sure you subscribe to the Real Estate Group Calendar on Upcoming.org
REtech South - Matt Fagioli and Brad [...]
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Observing online real estate often feels like I’m staring at a strange bizarro world.
Take for instance these two headlines today.
First, Zillow lands first MLS deal. (Guess they weren’t happy letting Trulia and Frontdoor hog the limelight over the last couple of weeks.)
At the same time, Connecticut statewide MLS launches public site.
Huh? Worlds are starting to [...]
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Ines Hegedus-Garcia at AgentGenius asked an important question today, Is your on-line reputation being smeared? Micheal Wurzer on FBS Blog pondered recently How Consumers Choose An Agent. They’re both important questions that are really tackling the same issue from different sides.
Establishing an online identity and monitoring online reputation is absolutely critical in the digital age [...]
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Congratulations to Kelly Roark, occasional contributor to this blog, who has taken a new position with Frontdoor.com as their new VP of Interactive Sales and Development.
Kelly, as many of you know, was formerly VP of Industry Development with Trulia.com. More on ClickZ.
In addition to acquiring some great talent though, Frontdoor has also updated its site [...]
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An advertisement from OptHome, a company that offers to “unbiasedly search all licensed agents to help you choose the one that is right for you.”
Let’s face it, this is every consumer’s worst nightmare when it comes to finding an agent and this ad taps right into that fear. No idea how effective the service is, but [...]
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