I disagree with Mathew Ingram. I did not use Twitter, blog search, Wikipedia, YouTube and pretty much any other tool I could get my hands on to source news about the tragic events in Mumbai. I resorted to my RSS…
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Amazon putting data in the cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is perhaps the most significant example of the “cloud” phenomenon. If you are not familiar with Amazon’s effort, they have leveraged their massive investment in IT to offer online storage, database and content management services. In…
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What consumers want, this report provides
In October of ’07, I attended 2-day think tank sponsored by Keller Williams held at Baylor Institute. I documented it here. This morning I received this report from KW on what consumers expect from agents. In a nutshell, the report…
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A new tool for bold brokers
This popped up this week and is worth a look from brokers looking to move ahead of the pack: outside.in’s new Radar API As I have stated here before, the neighborhood is where the future of online real estate lies….
A question
Brokers and MLS executives across America woke up this morning to stories in the local paper touting Zillow as a source of market intelligence. The headline was probably something like “1 in ___ homes underwater.” If you haven’t noticed, the…
A stilleto among blunt axes
“Circumstances rule men, men do not rule circumstances.” – Herodotus, 400 B.C. Today, real estate is facing circumstances that rule every minute, every penny. It matters little what was or what should be. The fact is, what’s unfolding is nothing…
Blowing the foreclosure opportunity?
Someone sent me this image the other day. It’s the back panel of a Realtor’s moving truck. I thought about it often as I flew around the country last week. Look, I know everyone’s got to make a living. I…
The future of online real estate innovation
This week, many picked up on reports that show venture capital activity slowed significantly in the third quarter of 2008. The week before that, the big story was the shock treatment VC firms were giving their portfolio CEO’s. No surprises…
What is Realtor.com waiting for?
Is it just me, or is this the longest “sneak peak” eeeevvvveeeerrrr… ? I am all for testing, but the Alpha and Beta periods for the new Realtor.com seem exceedingly long. Especially when the core functionality is essentially the same….
“Transparency” hits home
“Oh my god!” My wife was in the other room. “Someone is taking pictures of our house and putting them on the web. Look, there’s your car!” She was checking out our house on Zillow. The Zestimate didn’t bug her….
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