Last week, I drove up to Pasadena, Ca, to attend my first RE BarCamp.  For those of you who don’t know, RE BarCamp is a “FREE Social Media Marketing event based on BarCamp.org principals.“  Basically, people from the RE community(Realtors, vendors, developers, etc) attend these…

If you are an agent, broker, or web developer in the New York City real estate market — there is a new real estate API from the New York Times that you may want to check out. Here are the four specific API calls that…

If not, you’ve got some work to do to compete. Here is a great example of a real estate site that is optimized for SEO – Laguna Beach & Newport Beach Real Estate Guide. Here’s the kicker though — it’s not sacrificing the user experience…

What do you want a website or blog to accomplish for you? Are you only interested in listings? If so, you want to present a nice site that showcases listings well for future presentations and business generation. Do you also want buyers? That expands the…

We know the Diverse team has been busy, but this is working overtime….from Robert on the Diverse Solutions Blog: I’m proud to announce that Diverse Solutions has been working hard to develop a free offering for the Real Estate community. We all know that creating…

John Rowles at MainRhode LLC (they build enterprise search solutions using Google technology) just announced the launch of RealEstateUSA over at BloodHoundBlog. You can take a look at the new site at RealEstateUSA.com. What is it you may be wondering? RealSearchUSA.com will be a network…

H/T to Marlow on this one — Coldwell Banker has developed a new HomeSearch application for theMS Surface. Since you can’t buy the MS Surface yet, this is a bit limited. But cool nonetheless….

Hi, I’m a Mac, and I’m sure this isn’t the first Mac vs. PC debate you’ve read, and I’m sure it wont be the last. However, unlike other debates, I’m not going to sit here and tell you how awesome Mac’s are. Well, maybe I…

Once again, Rob has started an interesting discussion over at Notorious R.O.B. The question being discussed: In 2015, with companies like Trulia, Zillow, Roost and others really advancing the technology of real estate search, should brokers have their own search site? What do you think…

It’s interesting how many real estate professionals haven’t made the leap to social and business networking on the Web, especially considering how ingrained the old styles of networking are in their business plans. They join local civic groups, go to meetings, sponsor events and groups,…