As we head in 2011, I think it’s safe to say listing syndication has been an accepted “best practice” for agents and brokerages alike for a couple years. ListHub is the largest player in the syndication game, but they were purchased by Move (who owns…

Real estate agents tend to spend most of their time outside of the office, in cars, and showing homes to clients, therefore they need devices that are portable and advanced, such as smart phones, to manage lists and email streams.

Skitch has an easy to use fast application for your Mac. You can also upload and use Skitch.com if you are not a Mac user. Skitch is great because you can take a screen shot of anything, mark tit up with notes and share with…

I don’t think I’m alone in thinking the real estate industry really needs a drop dead simple customer relationship management tool that works and is usable by anyone (even non techies). While speaking to agents over the past couple weeks about our new predesigned websites (update: now…

I’ll admit it. I love attending RE BarCamps. I’ve been to 15-20 of them all across the country over the past few years, and have met some amazing people as a direct result. Friendships with the likes of Brad Coy, Andy Kaufman, Todd Carpenter, Mike Price,…

Since launching their “1000watt Index” in January, the folks over at 1000watt Consulting have amassed quite the collection of real estate technology service providers. Today they announced that the index has gone global, and is now called the Global Real Estate Index — complete with…

Reading Seth Siegler’s “A Real Estate Groupon?” post got me thinking this morning. Seth talks about trying to figure out how to use Groupon to sell real estate. I’m thinking along similar lines. However, I don’t think the opportunity is to use the existing Groupon service…

As you all know, graphics adds glitter to any web site. I have shown in my previous post how you can use FusionCharts to create cool Mortgage Charts using the Zillow Mortgage API. In this post, I will show couple of free software you can…

I wanted to followup on Mike Price’s post regarding the changes ocurring here at Geek Estate. First, to summarize all the moving pieces in terms of Geek Estate Blog and myself: I returned to the United States from my travels abroad about 3 weeks ago….

I just discovered the PostRank WordPress plugin from reading Chris Brogan’s blog and was considering trying it out. Knowing which of my articles are being shared broadly across the web seems like it could be valuable. Anyone in the real estate vertical using this? If…