Archive for April, 2008

Exodus from the bondage of 1.0 tradition

“Hey babe, looking for a dream home?” “Hey good looking, wanna check out my testimonials?” “Hey toots, wanna search my database?” Like catcalls from construction workers to pedestrians, false bravado, come-ons and innuendo continue to adorn broker websites. They stand…


Dysfunction junction

That still describes the meeting of online progress and practitioner performance far too often. This alert hit my inbox a couple days ago: As of this afternoon there’s still no photo. What a bummer. — Brian Boero


Paper: Real estate’s financial termite

There was a time when the hue and cry to remove paper from the real estate transaction was deafening. In 2005 I collected and bound over four hundred articles taken from the Web over the course of eight years as…


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What ever happened to Transaction Management?

Seriously. Back in the day, those who watched real estate and technology closely talked about little else. Especially during the post dot-com, pre-Web 2.0 interregnum. “TMS” platforms were seen as drivers of the paperless transaction, a vision the industry had…


The pot of gold at the end of real estate’s rainbow coalition

In my world, we are all the same. United by our commonalities, bonded still further by ardent disagreement. Through tension, debate and collaboration, we rise and evolve. Chris Brogan, well known in tech/social media circles, has this to offer real…


Nurturing a real estate brand in a post-print world

This line, in the middle of a very long and very good post by author and online media executive John Battelle, leaped out of my feed reader this morning: “… more than 80 percent of the advertising inventory on the…


Amid the Web 2.0 hoopla, something to get excited about

I like technology applications that solve real problems. Think email listing alerts. That’s a perfect app. Solves a problem for both the consumer and professional. It is for this reason that I love Forms Advisor. Boston I almost forgot how…