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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CoRE #120 – Realty Thoughts

CoRE #120 – Realty Thoughts

The 120th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at Realty Thoughts. Dustin Luther ran away with top honors this week for his post titled The trouble with Marc’s approach to Twitter.

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Reply Releases a Marketplace for Enhanced Clicks™

Reply Releases a Marketplace for Enhanced Clicks™

I thought Reply’s latest announcement might be of some interest to readers here. Reply Click Marketplace View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: click marketplace) Here is the press release and here is Tuesday’s edition of RainRadio that goes into more detail with Reply…

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Estately Expands to Chicago and Long Island

Estately Expands to Chicago and Long Island

Congratulations to Estately for their expansion to Chicago and Long Island — further coverage at FoREM and BloodHoundBlog.

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More Cool Data for Your Web Site – Walk Scores

More Cool Data for Your Web Site – Walk Scores

There are tons of free data sources for your real estate web site and I have one more to add to my list — Walk Score. If you’re not familiar with Walk Score, this is their description of how it works: Walk Score helps people…

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Links for Geeks – November 17th

Links for Geeks – November 17th

Here’s a few links for the geeks out there: Carnival of Real Estate #117 Winners Introducing BloodhoundBlog.net, free WordPress weblogs for real estate professionals Off Site SEO- Building Backlinks HOW NOT TO: Build Your Twitter Community

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Free Data Sources for Your Real Estate Web Site

Free Data Sources for Your Real Estate Web Site

I think most of you will agree with me that data is a critical piece of building a fantastic consumer destination — not only in the real estate vertical, but other verticals as well. In the real estate space,  buyers, sellers, and home owners are…

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Diverse Solutions Makes some Big Changes to their IDX Product

Diverse Solutions Makes some Big Changes to their IDX Product

Diverse Solutions released a major upgrade this week to their IDX product — here’s a list of some of the new features: Search by school district Search by price drops Ability to search bank owned, short sale, and foreclosure listings Ability to search FSBO listings…

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More Google Street View – Baltimore, DC, and Seattle

More Google Street View – Baltimore, DC, and Seattle

Yesterday, Google announced they’ve added three more highly requested cities to their street view coverage — Seattle, Baltimore, and Washington DC. Previous Geek Estate Street View coverage: Now Available: Google Street View via API Google Street View — Too Close for Comfort? Google StreetView Expands…

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Links for Geeks — October 28th

Links for Geeks — October 28th

Here’s a few links I thought would be of interest to the readers here: Homes & Land partners with Yahoo! Real Estate Maponics Announces 50,000 Neighborhood Boundaries in 2000 US Cities 21st century real estate brokerage is mobile Years Of Real Estate Blogging – The…

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Top 10 Brokerage Sites in America

Top 10 Brokerage Sites in America

Marc and Brian at 1000watt Consulting put together a list of the top 10 brokerage sites that’s worth taking a look at, particularly if you’re an agent or brokerage looking to improve your web site. I agree with them when they say that consumers (primarily)…

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