SUNDAY AFTERNOON. OUTSIDE. DAY. The sun emerged, a momentary victor in its never-ending battle for primacy here in the Pacific Northwest. The clouds stood down. I hastily entered the Pioneer Mall in downtown Portland in a mad dash for the Apple store. Get in, get out, soak up the rays.
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iPad 2 and the business of real estate
iPad 2 was unveiled today. It will ship in a couple of weeks. The sluggard emergence of alternatives (the first Android Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola Xoom, just landed in February and the Blackberry Playbook is said to be arriving in April) means Apple will likely continue to command the lion’s share of the tablet market for [...]
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Touching the future of Web user experience
Like millions of other fanboys out there I listened intently to every word Steve Jobs uttered this morning at Apple’s Back to the Mac event. We heard all about a new version of the desktop OS (Lion, to be released next summer), Facetime on the Mac (boom!), some incremental improvements to Apple’s iLife suite and [...]
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10 essential iPad Apps for real estate professionals
It’s only been a month… but what a month. By some estimates Apple is now selling over 200,000 iPads a week in the US. And international sales kick in at the end of this month. People are realizing that there may in fact be a need for a device that sits between their notebook and [...]
Reinvention through the iPad – A blank slate awaits
In Latin, tabula rasa means blank slate. In epistemology, in a theory first advanced by Aristotle, tabula rasa also refers to the notion that individuals are born without any preconceived ideas, and that knowledge is cast from outside experience and perception. I also think it is a perfect metaphor for Apple’s new iPad. I’ve had [...]
Apple’s iPad means big changes ahead for real estate
I’ve had a week to mull over the announcement of the iPad and I’ve come to this conclusion. The iPad is 26 years coming. Those who blast the iPad as just a large iPhone, I think are missing the point. Fraser Speirs puts it best – they’re most likely in “Future Shock“. Let’s take a [...]
Let us proclaim the mystery of brand
The Monsignor’s head would turn towards me almost imperceptibly. Up from my kneeler, I would unhook the censer from its stand and place a purple cone of incense among the embers in its well. Plumes carrying age-old mysteries curled upward.
Zillow’s new iPhone app: Taking it to the streets
When David Gibbons gave me an early peek of the new Zillow iPhone app on Monday, my first thought was how this would take the frustration I feel online at home to the streets. Great. Now trying to figure out what’s real when it comes to home values can be frustrating everywhere! But then I [...]
A gorilla in real estate’s midst
My wife and I read to our youngest two boys each night. Gavin, the 7-year old, tends to picks books from my library rather than the children’s that we started 19 years ago with our eldest. This school year, we…
When loyalty is based on indifference.
It’s amazing what some companies take for granted. It’s amazing what some companies leave on the table. It’s amazing what some companies don’t do to blow their customers away. It’s sad how little most companies invest in building affection with…
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