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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The .ME Domain is Available from GoDaddy – Claim Your Name

The .ME Domain is Available from GoDaddy – Claim Your Name

Joel at FoREM has the scoop regarding the fact that you can now register .ME domain names. Not all registrations today went smoothly — actually, far from it. Apparently, there was a massive load on GoDaddy’s servers today from the “landrush” that resulted in multiple…

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An Updated Real Estate 2.0 Mind Map

An Updated Real Estate 2.0 Mind Map

1000Watt Consulting just released an updated Real Estate 2.0 Mind Map the other day — click here to check it out.

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Price Me Now Partners with Zip Realty

Price Me Now Partners with Zip Realty

I thought the announcement by Realius today was worth noting — Zip Realty is their first national real estate partner for their Price Me Now game. You can see the game on Zip Realty here.

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World's Most Complete Neighborpedia

World's Most Complete Neighborpedia

Jon Washburn has publicly hinted at the fact that the new Localism site is coming soon. From seeing Jon’s blog post today and looking at the Localism homepage, it seems that day is July 9th. Any guesses as to what the focus of the new…

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What is Your Primary Method of Communication? What Will it be in 5 years?

What is Your Primary Method of Communication? What Will it be in 5 years?

Is e-mail in danger? That’s the question Alex Iskold at ReadWriteWeb set about to answer with his post yesterday. With Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, text messaging, blogs, wikis, Skype, instant messaging, and the array of other online communication tools available, the question of whether e-mail is…

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Bernanke, Real Estate, and Web 2.0

Bernanke, Real Estate, and Web 2.0

There are 130 real estate web 2.0 logos — do you see your logo?

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The Great Real Estate Plugin

The Great Real Estate Plugin

Here is a plugin worth looking into — the Great Real Estate Plugin. There is a great write up over at MyTechOpinion for those that want an overview.

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MySpace DataAvailability is Live

MySpace DataAvailability is Live

Myspace’s DataAvailability functionality is live at developer.myspace.com. Here is a test application from TechCrunch that should give you a feel for what is possible. I’m not sure if there are legal or technical restrictions that would prevent this, but one possible use of DataAvailability could…

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Changing the World with Google MapMaker

Changing the World with Google MapMaker

This might be a little off topic and not relevant to the US market (yet), but it is “geeky” and pretty cool, so I’ll post it anyway. Google MapMaker, which is Google’s attempt at using its massive community of users to improve their Google Maps…

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Links for Geeks – June 19th

Links for Geeks – June 19th

Here are a couple links worth noting — Tracking the real estate web in real-time – FeedPot.com BIRDVIEW Widens On-Line Marketing Reach for Real Estate Brokerage Clients Introducing StepRep from MyFrontSteps How to Increase Your Blog Subscription Rate by 254%

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