I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty excited to see the real estate app store that Spark is working on (aiming for an October launch). Why? Getting nationwide MLS listing data has been a problem without a clear solution for way too long.  Head over to…

Here’s a few links for geeks you may find interesting: Using Social Proof To Increase Activity In Your Community Crash diets and good habits MBA Mondays: Guest Post From Dr. Dana Ardi Trulia S-1 filing shows optimism, raises questions Realtor.com’s HUGE Leap Forward. First to…

Take a few minutes and read Seth Godin’s Race to the Bottom post. It finishes with this quote: The race to the top makes more sense to me. The race to the top is focused on design and respect and dignity and guts and innovation…

I know – it’s been a bit quiet around here lately. Over a week since a blog post! I wanted to give some context to why that’s the case. As some of you may know, I’m working full time on a new web startup in the…

In case you’ve missed the news from yesterday, dsIDXpress PRO (from Diverse Solutions) is now available. dsIDXpress was cool. And, though I haven’t personally played with the new product, based on the blog post on Diverse Solutions’ blog, dsIDXpress PRO looks awesome. Everything that was missing…

I hate being a hypocrite, and I just realized I’ve been one when it comes to email updates on this site. You see, when I sign up for something via email elsewhere on the web and the emails make me click through to the website…

I was having a conversation with a real estate agent the other day as a result of the test I ran as part of Startup Weekend Amsterdam, and we got to discussing conversion. Conversion, of course, varies depending on your goals. Generally, in a real…

You all know that if you drive zero traffic to your website, you’re going to convert zero leads. You all know that writing great content, consistently is one of the best ways to drive traffic to you site. You also all know that writing content…

This was a comment about the hyper local landscape from Greg Fischer in the TurnOn Facebook Group yesterday (moderated by 1000Watt): Yesterday, I met with two different people who are creating hyper-local media assets. One is further along than the other. Its starting to feel like…

Social objects is not a new concept, and has been discussed here on Geek Estate by both Ines and myself. But we’ll talk about it again since Hugh Macleod wrote an awesome post. I’m with Hugh when he says this: The hard currency of the…