Month: August 2009

19 Aug Disqus v3 Coming Soon…

Posted at 14:12h in Company News & Analysis by Drew Meyers

DISQUS V3 from Giannii on Vimeo. [via Fred Wilson]...

14 Aug Real estate sites way back when…

Posted at 21:33h in Blogging, Trulia, Websites, Zillow by Erion Shehaj

Your favorite real estate sites and blogs today are slick and shiny, modern and contemporary, functional and 2.0. But that wasn't always the case. Check out some of your favorite sites way back when: Zillow.com circa January 2005 The Phoenix Real Estate Guy circa January 2006 Trulia.com circa...

14 Aug What is Bounce Rate?

Posted at 13:38h in Websites by Drew Meyers

[via Ubertor via Reachd]...

13 Aug Creating City Pages with WordPress – Local Market Explorer WP Plugin

Posted at 16:01h in Blogging, Wordpress by Drew Meyers

If you are running a Wordpress blog focused on real estate, there is a new plugin (I think) is worth taking a look at -- Local Market Explorer. The plugin creates "city pages" inside of the Wordpress interface and pulls school data from Education.com, local...

10 Aug Walk Score Releases iPhone App

Posted at 16:59h in iPhone, Mobile by Drew Meyers

Walk Score has a new iPhone app (available in the appstore for free) that I'm sure the iPhone geeks reading this are going to want to check out. The primary function of the app is to show you the Walk Score of your current location,...

07 Aug My Takeaway from Real Estate Connect

Posted at 16:07h in Marketing, SMM by Drew Meyers

I've spent the last week in San Francisco (I'm still here) at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference. Though it's been exhausting balancing socializing, meetings, sessions, and somehow trying to keep up with my inbox at the same time -- it's certainly been a fantastic...

05 Aug DIY: How To Move Your WordPress Database To a New Host

Posted at 23:20h in Blogging, Websites by Joshua Ferris

I recently had the pleasure of transferring my real estate site, which runs on WordPress, over to a new host. Moving your site from one host to another can be a tedious process but the process is amplified by 10 if you have to transfer...

05 Aug WordPress Theme Developers: Listen Up

Posted at 21:31h in Blogging, Marketing, Single Property, Websites by Erion Shehaj

Since single property websites became a powerful (somewhat) mainstream marketing tool for real estate, forward thinking agents all over the country have starting building them for every single one of the listings they market. But so far, the choices we have at our disposal, leave...

04 Aug A New Way For Listings To Beam

Posted at 18:26h in Gadgets, Photography by Michael Price

Agents have a cool new way to present listing photos and videos to prospects. Nikon announced today they will be releasing the a new addition to their CoolPix point and shoot line up. The S1000pj adds the ability to project images onto a flat surface...