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…

If you own a web site, you may have seen web traffic reports for your site. Every website host provides some form of traffic analysis tools and reporting features as a part of their web hosting package. Based on my experience, many site owners are…

Hi there everyone!  Been a while but happy to be back; thought I’d get back into the swing of things by piggybacking off of Murali’s Post on sharing your Tweets on your Website with Twitter Widgets with one on how to get those Tweets out…

In October, Brian Rothenberg explained in his post how useful Twitter Search can be for Local Social Media Marketing. I am going to show you how to create a search widget to add to your blog or web site to provide relevant content to your…

A few years ago when David Gibbons and Drew Meyers both worked at Zillow.com, they came up with the idea of launching a new multi- author blog focused exclusively on real estate technology. GeekEstate was launched and has since become a go-to resource for anyone…