Setting up an XML feed for your listings is a great way to get added exposure for your listings by syndicating them to a variety of real estate portals. Since I’m helping support the coming Zillow Listings Feed program, I’ve had conversations with agents, brokers,…

Most readers of GeekEstate Blog are probably, well, Geeks. That being the case, some of you might be interested in reading the latest blog post on TravelHacker  — Top 25 Vacation Destinations Where a Nerd Can Get Laid. For those looking for a cruise, check out…

The 66th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the Real Estate Convergence.

By now, many of you have probably heard of OpenSocial (part of the reason Google’s stock is now above $700). OpenSocial is said to be Google’s answer to Facebook and has been all over the blogosphere the last several days. What exactly is it? OpenSocial…

Here’s a link for the geeks out there — I just noticed GeekEstate Blog made the “Blogs” category of 1000watt’s Real Estate Web 2.0 page, which highlights the “who’s who” of real estate web 2.0. In addition to the blogs category, other categories included neighborhood/local,…

A freelance developer, Leo Chan, has released something that might interest some of you working with the Zillow API — an open source ruby wrapper for the Zillow API that converts the xml returned via the API into a ruby hash/array format. For real estate…

In my morning blog reading, I found a quick tip worth bringing more attention to — Marian Bennett, an agent for Coldwell Banker, posted Improving communication with easy tech tools that highlighted an interesting way to use Google Alerts to determine which real estate listing…

The 65th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the Arizona Mortgage Guru.

Whether it be Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Zillow (my employer), Facebook, or somewhere else — I think it’s safe to say many real estate professionals are actively advertising online. For those who do advertise online, you should be giving some thought to the “landing page” that…

I mentioned the idea of a Broker Blogger this weekend with my Q&A with Kevin Boer. However, I wanted to dig a little deeper on the subject, so I decided to do a Q&A with yet another Broker Blogger. This time, it’s Ardell DellLoggia —…