Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) really needs no introduction. Web 2.0 guru, brilliant marketer and unabashed self-promoting social media superstar, he is on a mission to help you take advantage of the all the latest web technology to further your goals and monetize your passions.
I first met Gary at his keynote at Real Estate Connect in New [...]
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Web 2.0 guru and now best-selling author Gary Vaynerchuk will be holding court at the Bell House in Brooklyn on October 27th, starting at 9pm, for an exclusive FREE event.
RSVP on the Eventbrite page – and make sure you get their early to secure your spot! The place is [...]
Century 21 has really been pushing to move beyond the Gold Jacket lately. First, they announced they were dropping all of their television advertising in favor of an all-Internet play (see Century 21 Ditches TV for Online)
Now they have announced that they’ve launched “C21 Communities” – a social media platform.
Century 21 Real Estate LLC, the [...]
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Late last week I added Google Friend Connect to this blog (if you followed @jburslem on Twitter you would have seen my tweet asking for people to help me test it out). I did so after Google made the service widely available to all web site owners.
Friend Connect is part of the Open Social movement [...]
Neighborhood boundaries are a fluid thing. My definition what encompasses my neighborhood (Multnomah Village in Portland) may vary greatly from the person across street.
It’s also one of the Holy Grails to online search. The ability to confine a search to a particular neighborhood. Roost does this particularly well, as does Estately and to a lesser [...]
Properazzi, the international property search portal based in Barcelona, Spain, announced today it has changed its name to Enormo.
They felt “that the new name will reflect our ambitions better and support our continuing growth”.
I actually liked the old name a lot (see Properazzi Takes a Snapshot of Europe’s Real Estate Market) and the new name [...]
Gentrify is a new site reminiscent of one of the grandaddies of real estate mashups; HousingMaps.com.
Only better. It scrapes San Francisco property listings from craigslist but adds a number of unique filters that will help you find the perfect pad.
And by ‘you’ I mean, yes ‘you’ – the yuppie (see Stuff White People Like).
Gentrify’s goal [...]
In a post over at CNet, Rafe Needleman tagged Zillow as one of “the next Kozmos” (for more on Kozmo check out Wikipedia). Needleman writes:
The real-estate site’s revenue model is advertising. Real estate and bank advertising. Unless the real-estate research site starts charging for foreclosure listings, I don’t see it doing too well in a [...]
Don’t call it a comeback
I been here for years
Rockin’ my peers
Puttin’ suckers in fear
- LL COOL J, Momma Said Knock You Out
Neighborhood research sites come and go. But none of them have seemed to stick around for very long.
Word that Homethinking has added some very cool neighborhood matching tools excites me as a technology watcher, [...]
The guys at 1000Watt have redrawn the Real Estate Web 2.0 mindmap. Make sure you go and check it out.
What’s impressive is that despite the gruesome economic news and horrific market conditions many in the industry are facing there is still so much innovation happening on the technology side.
I think this is going to be [...]
