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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NewCondosOnline.com Teams with StudioNow for Video

NewCondosOnline.com Teams with StudioNow for Video

StudioNow has teamed with NewCondosOnline.com to create & deliver video content with their network of video professionals for condo listings and developments advertised on NewCondosOnline. From the press release: StudioNow, the premier online video creation platform, today announced it will provide high-quality video marketing and…

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Attending REBarCamp Houston 2008? Which Topics Interest You Most?

Attending REBarCamp Houston 2008? Which Topics Interest You Most?

For those who haven’t heard of REBarCamp (where have you been??), you must have missed the San Francisco REBarCamp in July. As background for this post, I suppose it would help to explain what “RE” BarCamp is: BarCamp is an international network of user generated…

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Personal Agent Websites are Critical to Building Trust with Consumers

Personal Agent Websites are Critical to Building Trust with Consumers

Yahoo! has some interesting findings regarding how online engagement influences the agent selection process, which will be presented at the upcoming NAR Conference. The session will be titled “Building an Online Presence in a Fragmented Market” and it will be in the Convention Center on…

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Coldwell Banker is Now Optimized for the iPhone

Coldwell Banker is Now Optimized for the iPhone

Visiting Coldwell Banker on an iPhone now directs you to the iPhone version of their site. My initial thoughts on their iPhone site are similar to Joel’s review. It is certainly easy to browse listings and pull up a listing detail page to see more…

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Quick Blogging Time Saver

Quick Blogging Time Saver

Being the blogger that I am, I’m constantly adding links to blog posts. Anything that makes it quicker and easier to link to something is a win in my book, which is why I found this “Copy as HTML Link” add-on useful. [via Agent Genius]

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The State of the Blogosphere, and How it Relates to the RE.net

The State of the Blogosphere, and How it Relates to the RE.net

I was just skimming some tech news and saw the State of the Blogosphere post on TechCrunch (data via Technorati) with an interesting chart breaking down the types of bloggers maintaining blogs. 79% personal bloggers 12% corporate bloggers 46% professional bloggers This data was based…

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Outside.in Now Lets Your Readers Browse Your Blog Posts by Location

Outside.in Now Lets Your Readers Browse Your Blog Posts by Location

From Mashable: Outside.in has just granted public access to StoryMaps, their GeoToolkit embeddable maps which let bloggers promote their local content in a visual format. [via 1000Watt]

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Links for Geeks – September 17th

Links for Geeks – September 17th

It’s been awhile since I’ve done a links for geeks post, so here are a few posts I’ve found interesting over the past few days: 7 MLSs agree to share, exchange data Rightmove Loses Ground In UK Online Property Search Slideshow – Website 2.0 –…

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You Now Have the Ability to Add Free School Data to Your Web Site or Blog

You Now Have the Ability to Add Free School Data to Your Web Site or Blog

The chances are very good that if there is an interesting data set out there that is unavailable without licensing costs, someone is going to make it available to be syndicated for free. Today, access to one of those compelling data sets very relevant to…

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iPhone 3G Fixes Coming This Friday

iPhone 3G Fixes Coming This Friday

Spencer and I have both switched over to the iPhone in the past month from Verizon. While we both love the iPhone overall, there are certainly cons. Two major negatives mentioned in his video comparing the iPhone to the Blackberry are that the iPhone can…

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