I know there are two sides to the debate as to whether or not agents and brokers should require registration in order to browse listings on your web site (Geek Estate coverage from February). The reason I am bringing it up again is that I…

If you saw my post a couple weeks ago (or the Inman version), you know that Curbed is entering the listings game with their own marketplace for the New York area. This morning, the Curbed Marketplace was “officially” introduced.

For those of you who missed the submission deadline for the Vlogging Contest on MyTechOpinion, you haven’t missed everything — check out the 12 Finalists for the Vlog Contest over at MyTechOpinion. Here are some early reactions from Lani (one of the 4 judges). MTO…

If you maintain a blog on Active Rain, you’ll probably find this post by Justin Smith from the Real Estate Tomato valuable (and no, I still don’t think you should put SEO ahead of your readers).

If you follow the Curbed blog, you probably saw Lockhart’s post today mentioning the new Curbed Marketplace. What is it? From their help page: It’s a place for sellers and brokers to post real estate listings, and for buyers to browse and search them. But…

Recommendations from friends has historically been the way agents are chosen by buyers and sellers, but with the amount of information now available online, buyers & sellers are doing their research and reaching their own conclusions about which agent is best for them. The Washingont…

Tim O’Reilly wonders (out-loud) whether linking to yourself is the future of the web — I hope not. He ends the post with two guidelines worth thinking through: Ensure that no more than 50% of the links on any page are to yourself. (Even this…

Ubertor has launched a new feature within the control panel that allows real estate agents to upload videos to their Ubertor control panel and have them automatically syndicate out to our distribution partners. [via Ubertor]

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Please join me in welcoming the newest “Geek” to the Geek Estate family — Chad Huck, the Interactive Marketing Manager for CENTURY 21 Hecht Realty in North Carolina! I had a chance to meet Chad at RE Bar Camp down in San Francisco a couple…