6 months ago I gave up my cable TV subscription. How? One word.
Boxee.
Boxee is a revolutionary application that lets you pull together all your media together in a single browser that you can access from the comfort of your couch. I truly believe that Boxee - when combined with a device like my AppleTV [...]
Amazon kicked open the door this afternoon to bloggers of all stripes to get their work on the book seller’s breakout e-reader device; the Kindle.
Previously you could subscribe to a handful of pre-selected blogs on the Kindle, but Amazon now lets all publishers submit their feed for sale in the Kindle marketplace. Prices range from [...]
Two well known real estate bloggers have launched a new training program for real estate professionals.
Jeff Turner and Bill Lublin have announced the creation of the new Social Media Marketing Institute (SMMI) and now offer a new designation to Realtors; Certified Social Media Marketer (CSM). The course is designed “to educate business professionals in the [...]
I know that some companies strive very hard to be creative with their advertising. And yet most in the real estate space, despite their best intentions (and big budgets), fail miserably (see Coldwell and Banker Back At Helm).
And while this may have been forgivable during the height of the bubble; now, when the market is at [...]
A guest perspective from Ashfaq Munshi, co-founder and CEO of Terabitz.
In an earlier incarnation, soon after I graduated, I was a young and eager executive at Oracle viewing life through a much different lens than I do now. While I did not know it at the time, that lens was cloudy, fogged up by youthful [...]
Enormo, the portal formerly known as Properazzi (TPFKP), relaunched today with a brand new look and bunch of new services, as well as a series of geographically specific “gateways” in over 17 countries, including enormo.co.uk and enormo.ie.
The bulk of the changes came in the design of the site and refinements to the search engine, but [...]
The explosion of social media use has meant that online reputation management is becoming increasingly important for companies of all sizes; and in certain cases, even important for individual real estate professionals.
Wendy Forsythe wrote about the need to manage your personal brand on the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate blog today that nicely sums [...]
International Listings, an search portal for global luxury properties, has put together a very clever marketing device they’re calling their Real Estate Marketing Report Card.
The idea is pretty simple; a seller can punch in their address and listing price and the system will quickly check a handful of real estate search destinations to make sure [...]
It must be something in the water. Or maybe its just the fact they’re working in one of the most competitive real estate markets in North America.
Whatever it is, it seems like Vancouver-based Realtors are really pushing the envelope when it comes to new media marketing (see Video Isn’t Just About Your Listings).
Kye Grace is [...]
Dwellicious is a social bookmarking site geared exclusively towards real estate. In the mold of Digg and its namesake Delicious, it’s a pretty simple idea… Save all your properties from all over the web to one location and share them with others, including the agent you’re working with.
The company launched at Real Estate Connect in [...]
