I thought the fact that Point2 and RealtyTrac announced a marketing partnership today might be of interest to some of you.

As of today, Google Maps now has an integrated real estate search. You can head on over to Future of Real Estate Marketing for commentary from Joel. More coverage: PC World – Google Now Does Real Estate Searches in Maps: We’re Not Impressed lifehacker –…

Doug Heddings, who covers the Manhattan market at True Gotham, has built a great brand for himself with the help of video. However, he gets more than branding from his video efforts — he actually uses video to help move properties. Doug was a guest…

If you ask me, one of the hardest pieces of blogging is consistently finding content ideas. One possible source of interesting content is pure data — essentially, anything in a spreadsheet is potential blog content. Though Google Docs can also be used to embed a…

Here are a couple links worth checking out: The Trick To Adding Local Search To Your Website or Blog The Simple Way To Get Personal Emails From Your Blog’s Readers

Please join me in welcoming our newest Geek to the Geek Estate Blog — Brad Andersohn, who is one of three community builders at Active Rain (you can find his blog here). With over 22 years experience in the real estate industry, Brad specializes in…

I wanted to extend a congratulations to the Redfin team for adding foreclosures and for sale by owner properties to their already impressive website. I think it’s safe to say home buyers searching on Redfin will definitely benefit from the increased inventory of properties. More…

From the MyBlogLog Blog (try saying that one 3 times fast) — MyBlogLog hCard & vCard: More Microformats, More Portable Data. They are supporting the hCard format as well as the vCard format to enable you to download contact details directly to your address book….

RealBird was 1st out of the gate integrating Google Street View imagery back in March. Trulia announced their Google Street view integration a week later. Today, RealEstate.com announces their integration. I’m sensing a growing trend…

First, on Monday, it was announced that the KML format is now an international standard supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Google Earth Blog coverage – Google Earth’s KML Now International Standard. Then, Google Earth 4.3 was released on Tuesday (more commentary on Mashable). If…