For those who think Macs are just for artists and musicians think again and again. The release of Mac OS Leopard, loaded with tools like iChat, Cover Flow, Quick Look and .Mac, has tons of relevance for the business user,…
Archive for October, 2007
The building blocks of real estate’s future
Last Friday, I found myself driving from Dallas to Waco. Destination: Baylor University. The reason: To participate in a 2-day think tank regarding the state of affairs of real estate sponsored by Gary Keller, Chairman of Keller Williams Realty. Baylor…
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Thursday morning buzzkill
This message appeared atop my search results page on Realtor.com. I had wanted to see what was on the market in my area of Oakland. Homes here go for anywhere from $750,000 to $1,500,000. It’s a market with several upscale…
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Terabitz: I get it
Cops do not manufacture their own guns, make their own patrol cars or design their own uniforms. Baseball players do not carve their bats, weave their gloves or harvest their own chewing tobacco. Few artists create their own paint, brushes…
Waking from my blog reverie
I left Inman’s Real Estate Connect conference this past July utterly convinced that blogging was the means through which real estate professionals would forge a new relationship with consumers. Today, I still believe blogging can be an important, even central,…
The Zappos MLS
Adidas Telstar. List price on Zappos: $59.95. I get to see these shoes at every possible angle. I get reviews. I get contact options that include “click here for live support”. The Zappos MLS There are three million products in…
The EZ brand integrity quiz
Suggest that the world’s most recognized real estate brand should be retired — laid to rest next to Oldsmobile upon the meadow of exhausted icons — and you open yourself to a lot of criticism. My post last week made…
Real estate asylum
I’m reading Infidel, the autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Born in Somalia, raised in the ghettos of Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, Ayaan fled to Holland at the age of 23 while en-route to Canada as a human parcel in…
Where is real estate’s Steve Jobs?
Technology has Gates. Style has Martha. Industrial design has Steve Jobs. Sports has Cuban. Capitalists have Gene Simmons. They serve as guides. They make sense of their categories. They offer direction. Explanation. Sometimes, hope. Who does real estate have? Who…
An adagio for real estate
Cog – The name given to this two minute film by Honda. This multi-million dollar film inspired by the game Mousetrap features eighty-five cars parts — tires, wipers, ball bearings, a door — arranged in a symphony of metal and…
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