Zillow’s data aggregation prowess has pushed its chief economist into a new position as a member of the federal government’s open data advisory council. Stan Humphries will take a position as an advisor on the Department of Commerce’s panel intended to help government make better…

[Disclosure: HomeZada is sponsoring Geek Estate this month, and this is a sponsored post. That said, HomeZada did not have any editorial say over this article; all opinions and words are my own.] I mentioned HomeZada’s consumer launch recently. As some of you know, the concept…

Project Upstream aims to become the defender and gatekeeper of brokers’ real estate listings nationwide.  The National Broker Public Portal intends to provide a nationwide display of data that puts brokers at the controls.  The former is not intended to exclusively fuel the latter (though it seems…

NRT threw some money at the portal space, with the launch of Homesforsale.com. When I question whether brokerages / franchises have the chops to compete with the big portals (see here), this “portal” is exactly what I mean (in less than 3 minutes of looking)……

I’ll be traveling on business for Horizon most of March, and would love to meet some of you if you live in, or traveling to, any of the cities I’m visiting: San Francisco – March 2-9 Boulder – March 9-17 New York City – March…

This is still one of my all time favorite TED talks. I just re-watched it last night for the 3rd or 4th time. It’s Dan Pallotta talking about how we think about charity is wrong, and why. I wholeheartedly agree with Dan that marketing is…

There has been a lot written about the possibility of a national Broker Public Portal for real estate–probably too much, for a project that’s nowhere near being off the ground yet.  Still, the idea rallies the spirits of many brokers, so it has legs. The…

I love this ad. It’s genius. FYI I grew up on a lake (Lake Sammamish).

For the geeks, is this how you envision the next set of iOS push notifications looking & functioning? [via Technobill.com]

A new detail about the Broker Public Portal, from Rob’s conversation with Victor Lund: …the thinking behind the BPP corporate structure is that it will be structured more-or-less as a non-profit. Shares in the company cannot be sold, and no dividends will ever be paid. Should…