I’m at REBarCamp in Houston right now, and Paul Chaney is currently giving a keynote speech. He just detailed 5 trends that are turning this world upside down: Consumer skepticism and resistance to advertising Media fragmentation is out of control Increasingly the consumer is in…

We have a new entry to the broker blogger space — as of today, Steve and Kris Berg are now operating as San Diego Castles Realty. They were formerly agents for Prudential California Realty and have built a great brand in the San Diego area…

I thought it worth noting that Homethinking added a neighborhood feature today to help consumers compare neighborhoods in separate parts of the country — here’s the press release. To get a feel for the new functionality, take a look at New York neighborhoods compared to…

The trend of RE.net bloggers getting real estate jobs continues — Reggie from MyTechOpinion is now the Social Media Director for Cyberhomes. Congrats Reggie!

I’ve been thinking about writing this story for awhile, but the latest news that NAR is looking for a social media manager finally got me to put my fingers to the keyboard. The list of bloggers from the RE.net finding corporate jobs in the real…

Fellow Geek Estate contributor Mike Price had the chance to meet Guy Kawasaki at the BlogWorld Expo and turned that into a chance to record a podcast with Guy. He posted the interview over at his blog, but I thought I’d share it here as…

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…

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…

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…

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…