Posts Tagged ‘Web 2.0’

Let’s call it Zulia

Brian wrote this toward the very end of December 2007. I remember both of us flying down to Los Angeles (each from different destinations), meeting at the airport and grabbing a cab to meet with a client. We were throwing…


Real estate on steroids

Stattweets launched today, enabling sports fans to follow their favorite teams, get spreads, scores, standings, ranks etc. The idea isn’t new but their angle is. The content here is broadcast direct from the teams themselves rather than from the arbitrary…


This is why I love the Web

Estonia. Wow. I wish I could read the darn site! BTW, you can download our “Top Ten Brokerages in America” report here (note: it takes a couple minutes). — Brian Boero


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Facebook, your brand, and the company you keep

Recently, I shared some thoughts on Facebook here. And subsequently raised questions regarding Twitter here. I view Facebook with some measure of reserve. It’s catching on big in real estate and, while it holds great promise, the stampede to its…


Dwellicious: The “Meta Bucket”

Greg Robertson will always be known to me as the guy who combined Fabio and an hourly cash drop (literally bills falling from the ceiling) in the eNeighborhoods booth at NAR a few years ago. Pure genius. I don’t think…


From the 1000watt Archive: Lead generation is dead

We’re a little light on posting this week because Davison is on vacation. So here’s a piece we published about a year ago. It’s tongue-in-cheek, and there are a hundred nuances we leave out, but it raises questions that are…


It’s time to focus on content

How do we fulfill the promise of Web 2.0 in real estate? Content. Yes, content. It’s been lost amid the Web 2.0 rave pulsing in our business for the past three years, a party threatened by a harsh dawn of…


Real estate search’s finest hour…

…has not arrived. Not by a long shot. Here’s why: Think about who actually engineered search for real estate. Programmers — guys and gals with 180 IQs — guided by folks who get their kicks from Excel. Not enough input…


Life during wartime

Part one of a two-part series. A hubbub of technological euphoria swirls in real estate. It’s been here since the early days of agent domain squatters and will likely last well past Real Estate Connect 2008, where talking heads, brokers,…


The road to killer

This year, as in the past, I’m moderating several sessions at Real Estate Connect. If you’ve not yet registered, take the time to do so — it’s going to be a great show. One of my sessions is titled “Building…