“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 [...]
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1000watt Index rebuilt – bigger, faster, now with more links
Back in January we launched the Global Real Estate Index, an attempt to catalog and index real estate startups and technology companies around the world. It was a resounding success. Such a success, in fact, that the WordPress infrastructure on which it was originally built quickly became burdensome. We quickly realized we had to tear [...]
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1000watt Index Additions: 9.20.10
The following companies have been added to the 1000watt Index this month. All submissions are reviewed by the principals at 1000watt Consulting before publication. Publication in the 1000watt Index does not constitute an official recommendation or endorsement, nor is any financial compensation accepted for inclusion. Realty Ninja / Agent Blogs/Websites IDXCentral.com / WordPress Plugins SCVNGR / [...]
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It was a beautiful Portland summer morning. Quiet. Cool. Before the heat of the day really started cranking up the thermometer. Between juggling a fussy baby and and even fussier Labrador, I finally got to my local Starbucks for my morning coffee. In the calm of that moment, staring over my steaming cup, I pulled [...]
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 [...]
1000watt Index: Your Guide to Real Estate Technology
5 years ago, when I started working in the real estate space, I found the landscape overwhelming. It was part of the reason I started FOREM in 2006. The blog was a way for me to jot down my thoughts and try and make sense of all the companies, vendors and technologies that were making a [...]
Season’s Readings – 10 jolts from 2009 to jump start your 2010
We have a lot to be grateful for this year.
There is no Web 2.0 bubble – and real estate technology ain’t what it used to be
Back in 2000, the online real estate category flamed out with the rest of the “dot-com” universe. It was five cold years before innovation flowered once more. That will never happen again. Yes, there are plenty of failed Web 2.0 companies, thousands of silly apps. Many more are on the way. But there is no [...]
Now this is news: A local association jumps on the market data opportunity
10k Research officially launched today. The company is a for-profit entity set up by the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors that slices, dices and visualizes MLS data into local market metrics suitable for consumer consumption. Their service is available to brokers, MLSs and associations across the country. I wrote about their hometown market effort a [...]
Tech news worth noting
Lots of food for thought here: Everyone’s talking about the “real-time” web these days, usually in relation to Twitter. It seems hard to relate this to real estate in a time when sporadic FTP dumps of MLS data are still all too common. But check this: Stweet, which launched this week, is a mashup of [...]
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