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 —…

The 64th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the RE Revealed.

With the explosion of real estate blogging occurring — and consumers reading them — it means the cost of building a identifiable brand are decreasing for real estate agents. As a result, I think more and more bloggers who have built recognizable online brands will…

I’m going to say the answer is definitely yes (and not just iPhone development). So, I guess the question becomes what impact will it have? On Wednesday, Inman News put out a 3-part series titled “Mobile matters in real estate” that I thought was worth…

Attracting clients is where the money is. Here’s a great example of someone brought home the bacon in the form of a attracting a client via blogging — Mike Jones, a mortgage lender for Golden Gate Mortgage in Tuscon, AZ. How’d he do it? Ranking…