In the latest episode of the GeekEstate podcast I had the opportunity to speak with Matt Cohen of Clareity Consulting regarding RETS, the Real Estate Transaction Standard. I recently had the opportunity to represent Zillow at the HAR REIS conference. One of the speakers referred…

This Week’s “Links For Geeks”. Zillow Launches An iPad application. New Yahoo! app “sketches” the future of real estate search Why should you care about an API? Leading MLSs Form Association to Seek ‘.MLS’ Top-Level Domain Location, Location, Location (A post regarding GeoFencing and More)

If you’ve spent any time at all in the real estate social media and tech space, you’ve run into Mike Mueller. I remember my first time very well. He pointed a video camera at me (without warning) and started interviewing me at an event in…

I’ve decided to carry on with Drew’s “Links for Geeks” feature. I’ve identified a few gems from my feed reader that perhaps you haven’t seen in the past week. How To Set Up a Self Hosted WP Blog Steve at Zeek Interactive (The Company Behind…

What the heck is a Barcamp? I’ve been helping answer that question for a couple of years now. Luckily enough, you will find a plethora of information on the REBC web site. The short of it? It’s a free event where people show up and…

As a new regular feature of Geek Estate blog, we will be shining a spot light on select real estate technology events. If you know of a technology related real estate event, please add it to the calendar. Our first featured event is RE Tech…

What The Heck is #RETT? About a week or so ago, I started noticing a hashtag associated with many of the posts in my social media stream, #RETT. Most of the posts were notices of meetings regarding RETT but nothing that revealed what it was….

We’ve added a new feature to Geek Estate Blog. The Real Estate Technology Event Calendar. Our goal is to maintain the “go to” resource for the ever growing list of technology related events for real estate professionals. Use the form on the Calendar page to…

Google takes a run at Facebook today by releasing their new platform boringly titled “Buzz” with an equally uncreative logo (the conversation bubble is so 2009). Not that it really matters. Google could announce they changed the brand of TP in the executive wash rooms…

Nikon USA recently announced a new line up of CoolPix cameras. Advances in technology and ease of use in digital cameras could have you taking better listing photos right out of the box. Some of the new point and shoot cameras now include the one…