Walk Score just released some cool new transit time maps for the Bay Area, Seattle, and Portland (based on the Google Transit feed). You can see how long your commute would be depending on the area you live in and what time you need to…

How do you keep track of ALL the social networking sites you’re currently on? Are you on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendfeed, ActiveRain and others?  Do you have online profiles scattered all across these continuously growing WEB 2.0 platforms?  How many are you on?  How many…

Many of the listing sites that service the US and Canadian real estate investor don’t accept international properties. And those that do may not rank well for the search terms that are relevant for your property. The classifieds site craigslist, for example, accepts international properties…

If you’re like me, it’s hard to commit hours and hours of writing “why” you should live in my area when choosing a home. Sure, I could frame in a local page of great information but what makes the internet great is the ability for…

The ultimate success of your business will probably be tied closely to your success on the Internet. Your website or blog is your storefront in a very big world. It’s easy to get a dry cleaning customer if they pass your store every day on…

Last week our team at Ubertor and Reachd ran the Inaugural Fraser Valley Real Estate Technology Meetup. We invited Realtor and Uber Video Blogger Ian Watt to talk about how he runs his business completely online. Here is the video from the evening. Death of…

The last time I posted on Geek Estate, I wrote about how to use the Trulia API from a PHP page. Since watching mortgage rates fall is a lot more fun than watching home prices fall, I decided to implement a simple widget that uses…

Thanks to Justin at Searching Solutions for this video tip to identifying “nofollow” links! How to Find a NoFollow Link from Justin Smith on Vimeo.

ERA has just completed a major site redesign, according to Patrick Healey at Onboard. I spent a few minutes browsing around the site and like what I see. Any ideas which brokerage is next in line with a major redesign?

Most of the agents that I know are extremely diligent about watching their web traffic and their hits to keep their site running with the most relevant information and help their search engine rankings.  While this is a very effective practice one of the other items…