All Posts Tagged With: "real-estate-technology"

$100 off Registration for Real Estate Connect

Great news. The deadline for early bird registration for next year’s Real Estate Connect conference in New York has been extended for another week.
Plus if you register use the coupon code FOREM and you’ll save an extra $100.
Connect is by far the leading technology conference in Real Estate. There’s always a fantastic line-up of speakers… [...]

Terabitz Launches New Web Platform for Brokers

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 [...]

Inman News Kicks off Global Connect in NY

One of the things that always struck me at the last couple of Connect conferences was the number of folks in the audience that came from outside the US.
Last month in San Francisco was no different. I met people from Canada, Mexico, Germany, Australia, Spain, France and many others, all walking the floors of the [...]

5 Apps Every Real Estate Agent Should Have on Their iPhone

iPhone 2.0 turned the iPhone from smartphone to full-fledged pocket computer. Applications continue to pour into the iTunes store and I’ve been experimenting with a lot of them. Here are a few of my favorites, practical applications:

Evernote – Need to keep track of all the contacts and colleagues you meet on the road? Scan their [...]

Brokers and Agents Who are Walking the Walk

One of the questions I get a lot when I speak in front of groups is “Is it too late for me start getting involved in blogging/social media/social networking etc.?”
My answer is always firm – absolutely not.
There’s always opportunity to take advantage of the latest technologies and there is still plenty of room for folks [...]

Reflections on NAR

I’m back in Portland and done washing off three days worth of casino stink. NAR was an enlightening trip and it was great to catch up with so many people, even if a broken plane sunk my hopes of attending the BloggerCon get-together.
Over the few days I was in Vegas I had a chance to [...]

Creating the Ultimate Real Estate Disintermediator

When I originally started at eppraisal a couple years ago I discussed the idea of creating a service that would allow someone to sell and buy a house online. It would be an end-to-end transaction with all of the documents and tie-ins to vendors that might be needed to make that work. I [...]

Next Generation Virtual Tours

What is the matrix? by t-mix

Virtual tours are on the verge of becoming just that; more virtual.
Up until this point, they have been well, frankly, disapointing. Greater adoption of video by real estate marketers could help this situation in the short term (see Inman Connect Highlights Real Estate 2.0), but thankfully there is some cause [...]

One More for Your Newsreader

Another new blog to keep an eye on – 1000watt Blog. They’re also watching Facebook and real estate.
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Surface Technology Could Save Full Service Brokers

If you haven’t seen it already, Microsoft’s announcement of a new surface computing platform (more from TechCrunch in Microsoft Announces Surface Computer) promises to finally deliver a truly interactive computing experience (see Navigating a Virtual World). While not a purely original idea, e.g. Perceptive Pixel has been doing similar work with multi-touch screens for the [...]