Last week, I read about MoveSmart.org at ReadWriteWeb (also coverage at Wikinomics) and thought some of the real estate geeks reading Geek Estate might be interested in the project. According to MoveSmar.org – Until now, information on neighborhoods has been buried in the back of…

Back in January, you might have read the news of the upcoming common data standard that Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia are working on, and I have an update to share — there is significant progress being made!! There’s a big meeting today down at Trulia’s offices…

The 77th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at Property Grunt.

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The folks at Agent Genius have rallied the RE.net for the purpose of raising money for a good cause. If you want to help, here’s the details: [Help] This week, thousands of people lost their homes and over 54 lost their lives. The destruction is…

Myspace has finally launched a developer platform in an effort to keep up with Facebook’s developer platform. This begs the question — what, if anything, does this mean to the real estate tech industry? Are any real estate web geeks planning on building real estate…

The 76th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Searchlight Crusade.

Wow, two in one week — we’ve got another contributor joining our ranks! Please join me in welcoming Kaya Hardin to the Geek Estate Blog team! Kaya focuses on Media Relations for IDX, Inc., a company nationally known as a leading provider of real estate…

In short, I think embedding Google Street View imagery into a single property website is a great idea. Zoltan at RealBird has a writeup that shows how to embed street view imagery into a RealBird single property site. Or you can use MyMarketWare to integrate…

Though you might have seen Zilpy’s BETA site sometime over the past month (they’ve been writing on an AR blog the past couple weeks), Zilpy “officially” launched today with a press release. According to their site, Zilpy is a free online rental market facts and…