About Drew Meyers

Founder of GEM Diamond. Zillow Alum. Real estate tech geek. Travel addict & former co-founder of Horizon. Social entrepreneurship advocate. Fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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A New Virtual Brokerage?

A New Virtual Brokerage?

The Notorious R.O.B. has a hot tip regarding “Aybaf“…

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Want a Link from an Official Google Blog?

Want a Link from an Official Google Blog?

I do too!! Unfortunately I can’t participate in the little promotion Zoltan at RealBird has put together, so I thought I’d share it with all of you. The prerequisites are: Be a real estate agent/broker – residential or commercial Be the listing agent/broker of the…

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Onboard and the Lifestyle Listings Engine

Onboard and the Lifestyle Listings Engine

Onboard announced their new Lifestyle Listings Engine yesterday — you can see the overview here. Onboard’s Lifestyle Listings Engine provides the first Human Centered Search (HCS) experience in real estate. Our flexible Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) combine technology and data in an easy-to-implement package that…

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Mike Price Joins Diverse Solutions as Their Social Media Manager

Mike Price Joins Diverse Solutions as Their Social Media Manager

As of January 1st, fellow Geek Estate contributor Mike Price is now the social media manager for Diverse Solutions. From my understanding, he’ll still be running MLBroadcast, but will spend a bit less time on it. Or just work a lot more. This hire makes…

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Will There Be a Techmeme for Real Estate in 2009?

Will There Be a Techmeme for Real Estate in 2009?

I don’t know about you, but I’d love 2009 to be the year that a “techmeme for real estate” was unveiled. Do you think my wish will be granted?

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Links for Geeks – December 30th

Links for Geeks – December 30th

It’s been a fairly holiday week in the RE.net, but here are a few posts worth taking a look at: No Links? Why Blog-Social Networking is Marketing Too! My 2008 Blogging Revelation: Blogging to Consumers Opened My Eyes Guest Post: Happy Holidays, Mercenaries! Love, The…

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Links for Geeks – December 22nd

Links for Geeks – December 22nd

Here’s a few geeky links I thought others might enjoy: TomTom Enters Online Mapping fizber.com Partners With condo.com How to Create Your Own Search Engines for Your Blog or Website SEO Efforts Measured and Directed New dsSearchAgent Features – Zillow Co-Branding

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Q&A With Myron Lo at ZipRealty

Q&A With Myron Lo at ZipRealty

I had the chance to send Myron Lo, ZipRealty’s Director of Product Strategy, a few questions to learn more about the thought process behind their latest release adding Realius community estimating technology to their listing detail pages. Below are my questions and his responses: Q:…

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ZipRealty Integrates Community Estimating Technology from Realius

ZipRealty Integrates Community Estimating Technology from Realius

It looks like ZipRealty is the brokerage that will bring community estimating to the general public. ZipRealty has always been one of the most progressive brokerages, so the fact that they are the first brokerage to add community estimating technology to their web site is…

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Holidays with the Geeks – CoRE #121

Holidays with the Geeks – CoRE #121

We’re happy to have the CoRE back here at Geek Estate this week. What was I looking for? As you may or may not know, I’m a huge fan of a strong personal voice, so that was a high priority in my selection process. I…

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