GitHub is a place where hardcore geeks socialize, and non geeks never ever venture. What is it, exactly? From Crunchbase: GitHub is a social network for programmers. Git is a distributed software management program created by Linus Torvalds, originally for the Linux Kernel Development. GitHub is…

Sponsored Post Reminder: During the next 30 days, we are running a REW-Geek Estate challenge here 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…

In our latest real estate tech interview, I’m talking to Todd Miller, the co-founder of Homing In. (I believe) they were the first app in the “Uber for Real Estate” category, though I didn’t know it existed until Todd commented on the Curb Call post…

Greg’s blown the lid on the Realty Alliance plan — Broker Strangelove: The scoop on the Realty Alliance’s (crazy) plan to rock the real estate industry (Inman’s follow up). Crazy? Or could the strategy work?

Picking a niche is important. We’ve talked about it here. Another niche you could focus on? Being the startup agent. What go me thinking on this? Aside from being a geek working on a startup myself (Oh Hey World & Horizon), there was an article…

Realogy and Trulia getting married? Redfin raised $50 million (Glenn wrote about it here) “Pocket listings” is causing a stir …and, WOW, apparently Greg Robertson will finally shed light on the Realty Alliance issue come Monday. In other, non-real estate news, Snapchat turned down $3 billion….

Have you ever experienced a real estate vendor who has either made it extremely difficult or impossible to cancel their service? Or have you had a product that you canceled continue to bill you for services? Agents sign up for a new product or trial,…

Keller Williams continues the technology announcements…partnering with Google to move 93,000 agents to Google’s Cloud. The biggest real estate deployment Google has ever done. Are any other franchises keeping pace on the technology side?

HomeLight (discussed previously here) has some competition in Realtor.com’s new Agent Match. Their value proposition to sellers? Sell Your Home. Compare and connect with the best performing agents in your neighborhood. Northern Colorado (Boulder) and Las Vegas Valley are the two test markets for the service….

Real Estate Webmasters is sponsoring Geek Estate for the next 30 days. REW has been around a long time and is consistently mentioned as a top tier web design/development firm in the real estate vertical. The biggest objection I hear from people about why they don’t…