I’ve been using a little widget on the sidebar of my blog from Amung Us for quite some time that shows the number of visitors currently on the blog. It’s kinda cool. The map above is a new (to me) Amung Us feature that shows…

Today’s launch of Zolve.com has generated some buzz across the real estate blogiverse, and beyond. I haven’t come across a post yet though from someone who actually “joined” the Zolve network. What I’ve seen is bloggers looking at the site from the outside, or discussing…

As I peruse my feed reader every day, I “star” posts that I find interesting. Many are technical in nature and I thought they might appeal to some of the readers of Geek Estate. I’m going to try to post geeky links here weekly. The…

WordPress v2.3 was released on September 24. Since upgrading WordPress can be a hassle, this blogger tends to lag several versions behind. My blog was running on v2.1.2 and given there were reported security issues with that version, I took the plunge into upgrading. Version…

Unofficially, there are 1,214,782 blog widgets out there. Some are very cool and useful, others not-so-much. “Blog Rush” is a new widget that (according to them) can drive traffic to your blog: BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their…

Thanks to the Men of Sellsius, I jumped into Animoto to see what the buzz was about. This site is slick. You can quickly make “videos” of pictures you supply, sync’ed to music with spiffy transitions. Here is one I put together for a listing….

Recently Realtor.com announced a free blogging platform is now available for their 1.4 millionish members. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — REALTOR.com, the most comprehensive real estate listings Web site, today announces the introduction of Featured Blog and “Let’s Talk Real Estate!,” a new blogging…

Pingdom is an “uptime monitoring” company. They monitor your website or blog (up to five different domain names) at user definable intervals and will notify you if your site is unreachable. Sometime yesterday, they announced they would be offering 1,000 free yearly accounts for Firefox…

This post doesn’t have nearly the geek factor of Robbie’s Trulia API in PHP post (what would?). But it’s really important… As a technology inclined real estate professional you no doubt have a LOT of files on your computer. Your client database, contracts, listing agreements,…

Want more traffic to your blog? Sad because no one ever leaves comments? Maybe these tips will help… Blog Traffic: Apart from consistently good writing, the single best way to drive traffic to your blog is to link to other blogs in your posts. This…