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 [...]
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 [...]
There have been numerous rumblings over the last week that suggest that Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in an attempt to shed some weight and boost its profitability. Now the New York Times is reporting it, suggesting the announcement could come at the end of the month.
So how is this going [...]
Earlier this week, Apple released a firmware upgrade for the iPhone (and the iPod Touch) that allows you to set any web page as a “Web Clip” (basically, a shortcut icon) on your phone’s start screen.When you do this however, the default image it uses is just a thumbnail of your homepage – which, to [...]
