Not a lot of big news this week. Late summer doldrums I suppose. A few things that caught my eye… Citi initiated its analyst coverage of Zillow, rating it a “buy.” Sure, you could point out Citi’s involvement in the Zillow IPO, or take issue with the strongly positive opinion. I don’t really have an [...]
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Real estate technology: think food, not forks
Yesterday I participated in a session at the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World conference on “The future of technology.” I thought about this a lot before the event and decided I didn’t want to talk about technology, for two reasons:
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FrontDoor.com picks up openhouse.com from Realogy. Everybody wins.
There’s news today that Frontdoor.com, the real estate Website powered by Scripps Networks Digital (of HGTV and Food Network fame) has acquired openhouse.com from Realogy. Scripps controls the domain and, more importantly, has completely refashioned the site to fit within the larger FrontDoor.com experience. This is a winner for everyone: Realogy unloads a property to [...]
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Here lies Web 2.0
John Cable published a blog post this past October titled “The End of Web 2.0?” His end was marked by the drained IV bag of venture capital that no longer pumped its lifeblood into the veins of all the loosey-goosey…
Mobile cheese? How about a mobile VOW?
Greg Sterling over at Local Mobile Search notes Kraft’s launch of an iPhone app that helps users find local grocery stores, build shopping lists and more. It also includes ads and coupons for Kraft products. Smart people at Kraft apparently…
Sirius XM
The long-awaited merger of satellite radio’s two players has finally been approved by the FCC. As an early subscriber to XM who converted to Sirius, I am pleased that, soon, I will be able to reap the benefits of their…
Waiting for the killer widget
Back in the old days of Web 2.0 and real estate, during 2007, widgets were heralded as the little things that would change everything. They would end search. Make destination websites obsolete. Give users complete control. Coming off well in…
The customer has left the building
Last month, the Financial Times reported that Google’s search numbers coming from the iPhone were so high the company’s engineers thought the data were bogus. Further on in the article the company’s head of mobile operations asserts that “the number…
60 Minutes on real estate, act two
Last night, millions of Americans got to watch 60-minutes’ latest installment on the real estate market. The segment centered on Stockton, California – ground zero for the foreclosure epidemic, where 4,200 homes either sit in default or foreclosure. That number…
When AdAge starts asking questions, will real estate start listening?
From Advertising Age: Pay head to what Realtors don’t say in their latest pitch It’s one thing for me to constantly harp on the NAR and others for their loose grasp on reality when it comes to advertising, messaging and…
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