Trulia announces a partnership that allows viewers of listings in 30 or so cities to “Walk The Neighborhood” using Google’s Street View technology. Street view is a service introduced by Google last year that allows viewers to navigate mapped 360 panoramic images from street level…

Adobe Systems has finally unveiled it’s online photo editing and sharing application, dubbed Photoshop Express. According to Adobe, what you’ll see promises pushes the boundaries of web based applications to new limits. The application is free to use and even includes 2 gigs of online…

Please join me in welcoming the newest regular contributor to the Geek Estate Blog, Eric “The Coach” Bryant. Eric is the Director of Information Services at Prudential California Realty, a broker with 300 agents and offices located throughout the Central Valley area. Eric spends a…

YouTube is Down? That was the message I sent on Twitter and to a few friends yesterday. Each person replied one after the other that they were unable to connect to the YouTube servers yesterday afternoon. I thought it was just a typical blip that…

Apple unveiled a complete new build of it’s photo application Aperture a couple of days ago. I finally had a chance to install it and check out the new features. The first and most notable thing is speed. It’s absolutely blazes in comparison to v…

Everyone in the world is dissecting the potential merger of Microsoft and Yahoo. Joel opines on the impact to real estate search. I haven’t been overly impressed with either company when it comes to the real estate vertical and it’s anyone’s guess whether it will…

Andy Kaufman has announced today on the AgentGenius blog and Zebra Talk that he is coordinating a BarCamp to take place a day ahead of the Inman Connect Conference in SF this summer. I think it’s a great idea and I plan to do all…

One of the better panels at Inman Connect tackled the issue of marketing your blog. Moderated by Joel Burslem the panelists included: Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National & Author, MyTechOpinion.com Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real Estate And…

The data geeks over at Zillow Labs are sharing some of their work via a Creative Commons License. It is represents the neighborhood boundaries of over 7,000 locations in major markets across the U.S. What’s cool is the fact that you can make additions and…

Judging from the log files to the sites we manage, 2007 could definitely be dubbed the year of the switch. Apple’s market share has seen it’s largest increase in some time. If you’re lucky enough to have joined the cult that is Mac, take a…