Here are several blog posts from around the RE.net you might find interesting: Serious Google tips, plus anyone ready to compete with Trulia or Redfin? [via 360Digest] My Front Steps Looks Close to Launch… On the hunt for new real estate marketing tools! Predicting Home Prices…

I just saw the news over at Mashable regarding the new Yahoo Address Book API. According to Charles Wu, the product manager for the Yahoo! address book platform, here are a couple things you can do with the API: Obtain unique identifiers (i.e., email addresses)…

Sorry, I just have to do it — link to fellow Geek Estate contributor Jay Thompson twice in the same day (prior link)! This week’s Carnival of Real Estate, posted at Phoenix Real Estate Guy, is just too good NOT to link to it.

After reading Jay Thompson’s post about Marketing on Twitter, it’s looking like the answer should be “Yes”.

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo. [via Ubertor Real Estate Blog]

Today, Paul Rademacher, a Technical Lead for Google Earth, announced the release of the Google Earth browser plug-in on the Google Lat Long Blog: Today, I’m happy to announce the release of the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google…

Probably as a result of coming on a day where the NAR-DOJ agreement stole the headlines, there was an announcement today in the real estate tech world that went largely unnoticed — Local Matters and Point2 announced “an Agreement of Sale and Cooperation for Point2’s…

In case you missed it, there is a new aggregator on the scene in the real estate industry — RealSeekr, which was announced early this week and was covered on Agent Genius yesterday (and there are already 30 comments). When I was in New York…

Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb has put together a great post for anyone looking for a crash course in social media. Here are the lessons in Social Media U: Personal branding (a topic I’ve written about before) Know what web 2.0 is and how to…

I’m not sure how many people saw the news that Google Spreadsheets can now be edited by anyone, but the concept of a a wiki-style spreadsheet caught my attention. You now no longer have to “invite” people in order to have them contribute and edit…