“The future belongs to crowds” – Don Delillo, Mao II It has been three weeks since Facebook announced its Open Graph API and social plugins. This was a polarizing event. Some believe Zuckerberg revealed himself as an evil geek-savant orchestrating a carnival of counterfeit cares; others believe we have just crossed into a time of marvelous possibility. [...]
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On the eve of disruption: location and the real estate opportunity of a lifetime
I’m at 38,000 feet right now, thinking about a plain fact filled with beautiful potential for real estate. That fact is this: The divide separating the Web from the physical world is closing – fast. For an industry to which location is everything, this is a big deal.
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New Yahoo! app “sketches” the future of real estate search
As I sat down outside Starbucks for my morning coffee today, I happened to glance over at the newspaper box. The headline in USA Today screamed at me: App developers are gearing up for Apple’s iPad To say the least.
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As Estately grows, so does consumer choice
DC residents now have a virtual panoply of real estate search sites to choose from. Estately, the IDX-powered online brokerage, just moved into DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia today, adding 60,000 new homes and condos to their database. In addition to Estately, lucky Mid-Atlantic residents can thaw themselves with dreams of warmer springtime home [...]
Zillow starts charging for listings
Starting tomorrow Zillow will be charging for all manual listing uploads to their site. This, as they also add rental properties to their site as well (here’s looking at you Apartments.com, you’re next in the crosshairs).
Google made a big real estate move today
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:
Food for thought from the past week
10:30 a.m. on Wednesday and I have just now returned my inbox and reader to some sense of order after the Inman conference last week. Here are some things I came across in that process that got me thinking: Yellowbird, a start-up based in the Netherlands, launched something that approximates Google Street View done with [...]
Layar launches, RETS feed mashed up with my cerebral cortex
Well almost… Layar, an “Augmented reality browser,” was presented this past weekend at the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference in Spain. The application allows users to view an enhanced version of reality through the lens of their mobile phone’s camera. It is currently available in the Netherlands, on Android phones. Layers, or “Layars” of information integrated with [...]
Real estate technology is headed straight to the small screen
The announcement of the iPhone 3G S this week adds confidence to my belief that real estate websites as we know them are a legacy platform. The handheld device will be the locus of real estate technology innovation in the coming years. The inherent “limitations” of the small screen are in fact liberating for the [...]
Active.com’s answer to a burning real estate search question
Home search does not have to boring. In fact, it can be amazing. Completely fulfilling. And offered right through a brokerage website. Today, things like mapping, neighborhood boundaries, local demographics, education scores, lifestyle values, Street View, Reviews, RSS feeds from local content providers, photos, videos, valuations and more make it possible to deliver a rich [...]
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