According to many, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is considered the most brilliant tech executive since the late Steve Jobs. I tend to agree with that thinking, which is exactly why I put so much weight on the most prominent part of Kindle’s new commercial being…the Mayday button. I’ve talked…

There was some bitcoin news today in the real estate vertical – RentHop is accepting them. But watch clip #6 from the conversation Semil Shah had with Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures: The key statement: There is No Chance BitCoins Will be Successful in the…

Everyone knows agents and brokers have incredible knowledge about the communities they live and work in. Travelers, of course, could benefit from that deep knowledge (as I’ve written about). As could locals, who may not know the area as well as you or are looking to…

Homing In just launched their new website (via Todd on FB). They tout themselves as “Uber and Yelp for Real Estate Rolled into One App” Yelp, and Uber, are both massive businesses by themselves. So I worry they are biting off more than they can…

If you could have anyone in the entire industry build you or your brokerage a real estate website (and cost wasn’t an issue) — who would you choose to design and build it? Who has the best real estate website platform out there? BoomTown? Virtual…

Realtor.com shut down AgentMatch – There was literal outrage from the industry when it launched about a month ago. More on the shutdown here. Regardless of what agents think, I think some iteration of this will exist at some point in the future. Whether it’s Zillow, Trulia,…

When watching the demo video for MindMeld (which launched last night), my mind jumps to conversations between buyers/sellers and their agents — with relevant information instantaneously surfaced. This seems like a better way to communicate, with trusted advisors in your life. What do you think?

I just installed Momentum chrome extension, which I found via Nick Grossman’s Momentum post. When I open a new tab in Chrome (a task I do dozens of times each day), below is what I now see: a reminder for my one focus for today. What…

Sponsored Post Reminder: We’re fast approaching the end of the REW-Geek Estate challenge to give away 15 of their $7,500 REW fully loaded premium sites (meaning waive all normal setup fees & pay nothing for the first 30 days), risk free (meaning you can cancel anytime after 30 days). In fact,…

From Derek Sivers: It’s so easy to waste time doing that stuff that’s of no importance, no challenge, no benefit to anyone, not even yourself. It’s so hard to fight the resistance to do the more difficult but more important thing. Finishing that book. Writing that song….