Five things that caught my eye today:
Google Local Business Center redesigns itself, making it even easier to update your company’s information into its small business database. Why is this important? Google supplements organic search results with entries from this database, often ahead of even the top ranked destinations (see Google Implements Local Search Results).
Like Google [...]
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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 [...]
Zolve, the real estate networking site dreamt up by Iraqi war vet and GeekEstate Blog contributor Brian Wilson, launched today, Techcrunch reports.
Honestly I haven’t spent much time on the site over the last few weeks, like Mike Price I found myself quickly annoyed with the talking head that kept coming back to the home page [...]
[Ed. Note] Kelly Roark, of the real estate search site Trulia.com, joins FOREM as a contributing author today.
2.0 is everywhere now…Web 2.0, Real Estate 2.0…heck, I’m thinking about reinventing myself into Kelly 2.0.
So what about Agent 2.0? Whatever you call them, many of us know, manage or provide marketing support to Agent 2.0s—and not [...]
Since launching its F8 platform, the social network Facebook has seen a staggering number of applications developed for it. So many that it verging on becoming a menace - I’m already getting overwhelmed with updates from people who have questions they want answered, or some Pirate games they want me to install.
Despite the noise there [...]
PropertyQube, the formerly stealth real estate site, launched into Beta this week - and with the wrap finally lifted, it looks like the site is in fact a social network play similar to Trulia Voices, where people can ask real estate related questions of the community and (hopefully) find the help they are looking for.
As [...]
OK, not quite. But in what’s officially the first of what will surely be a long line to come (and no, I’m not talking about the folks lining up for an iPhone), UK property search engine Nestoria has just released a Nestoria Facebook Application.
It’s not a huge technical leap, but I’m impressed. Adding the Nestoria’s [...]
So Redfin was on 60 Minutes last night - What’s your take?
Mine? Hardly hard-hitting journalism. A PR puff piece if I ever saw one. Redfin just got handed a trophy before the race is even finished.
That said, I’m a big Redfin fan and I think the 60 Minutes story is just what they needed to [...]
I’ll admit it. I’m hooked on Facebook. I somehow missed out the whole MySpace craze (thankfully, visiting a MySpace page now just makes my eyes hurt) - but Facebook has me hook, line and sinker.
Over on the Inman Blog, I wrote a post recently about real estate marketing through social media - where I implied [...]
ActiveRain, the popular social networking site for real estate professionals, has passed a significant milestone - breaking through the 10,000 member mark in little over six months since it launched. Congratulations to Matt and Caleb for all their hard work in getting the site up and running and to all the ‘Rainers who have made [...]
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