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Is video chat ready to cross the chasm?

By Joel Burslem | July 7th, 2011 | Filed in: Technology

“First there is a market Then there is no market Then there is.” – Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm Earlier last week I got an invite to Google+ (thanks +mikerohrig), Google’s big new social initiative. The budding social network shows a lot of promise, but suffers a bit right now from a lack of any [...]


Google drops real estate listings

By Joel Burslem | January 26th, 2011 | Filed in: Technology

Real estate listings have been yanked from Google Maps. That’s the headline in a post on the Google LatLong blog this afternoon. Here’s the money quote: “In part due to low usage, the proliferation of excellent property-search tools on real estate websites, and the infrastructure challenge posed by the impending retirement of the Google Base [...]


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Google Images refreshed; real estate search still seems stale

By Joel Burslem | July 22nd, 2010 | Filed in: Technology

Google launched a revamp of their Google Images search this week. The service has been a remarkable catalog of the web’s visual information since 2001 and now indexes over 10 billion images. But as of now, it’s even cooler. In a nutshell, Google tweaked the display of its image search results, creating a denser tiled [...]


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Real Estate Pandora

By Marc Davison | February 24th, 2010 | Filed in: Technology

I took part in a radio interview yesterday. The interviewer sent me some questions in advance. We never got to any of them. But one really stood out and beckoned me to respond: How might Google upend the real estate Industry?


Claim Your Identity Through Google Profiles

By Joel Burslem | February 19th, 2010 | Filed in: Technology

Who are you? Who, who, who, who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who? – The Who A few weeks ago, like 106 million other people, I tuned in to watch a couple of aging mods rehash their greatest hits in [...]


Google in talks to buy Yelp; is real estate asleep at the switch?

By Brian Boero | December 18th, 2009 | Filed in: Technology

[Note: Yesterday - 3 days after this was posted - Techcrunch is reporting that the near certain deal, which was covered as pretty much done even in mainstream media, is now off. At the same time, rumors are surfacing that Google is going to by Trulia. Time will tell.] This is getting interesting. Multiple sources [...]


Google makes yet another big move into real estate territory

By Brian Boero | November 20th, 2009 | Filed in: Technology

Forget the RPR. If you’re interested in the future of real estate, you need to be watching Google closely these days. A couple weeks ago we noted the company’s move to include a real estate overlay on Google Maps, which put listings smack-dab in front of millions of Google users who likely had no idea [...]


Google made a big real estate move today

By Brian Boero | October 30th, 2009 | Filed in: Technology

Google announced a big real estate move about two hours ago: listings can now be viewed on any Google Map by clicking on the “More” button, a position heretofore reserved for photos, transit information and other overlays. Here’s what it looks like:


Google may kill Microsoft, but it won’t kill real estate

By Brian Boero | July 8th, 2009 | Filed in: Technology

You’ve probably read the posts about Google’s move to make searching real estate via Google Maps slightly less obscure. This morning you read about the announcement of Chrome OS, which looks to many like the stone that just might hit Microsoft right between the eyes. These two announcements underscore something I have long believed about [...]