Authors of blogs, like Geek Estate, often forget that others may not be up to speed on online marketing for the real estate industry so I’m going to hit the pause button and now hit the fast rewind button. Welcome to the beginning of Internet…

VendAsta Technologies just announced they have secured $3M in venture capital for MyFrontSteps.com. What is MyFrontSteps? From the press release (PDF file): MyFrontSteps connects people over social networks allowing them to share their home and home experiences with friends, family and the world – from…

Please join me in welcoming the newest “Geek” to the Geek Estate family — Chad Huck, the Interactive Marketing Manager for CENTURY 21 Hecht Realty in North Carolina! I had a chance to meet Chad at RE Bar Camp down in San Francisco a couple…

There are a couple of really great tools you can use on your Blog posts. One is Addthis.com and the other is ShareThis.com. Both have some great features for the growing Social Bookmarking phenomena. I wanted to share them both and at the same time…

What’s the best way to describe a new product that is somewhat controversial? Start by describing what it isn’t. Jeff Corbett of Ratespeed took some time to speak with me yesterday about the service they describe as “the transparent mortgage search engine”. Also known as…

Here are a couple podcasts you should consider listening to (you can even listen to them in iTunes): Mike Price with Todd Carpenter on the topic of REBlogWorld Mike Price with Chris Koehler, CEO of Applied Real Estate Technology

When it comes to your linking strategy, are you in the “Don’t Link to External Sites” camp? If so, Rand at SEOmoz has some points you might want to consider. And if that post doesn’t convince you that not linking out is a bad strategy,…

Do you have an iPhone and read real estate blogs? If so, Dennis McGuire coded up a “blog reader” for the iPhone — http://www.irealtyblogs.com. The site pulls feeds from all Dennis’ favorite blogs from the RE.net into one. Currently, the feeds from the following blogs…

Head on over to Zillow Blog for more background from David.

Cuil.com, a new search engine, was released to much fanfare earlier this week. Pronounced “Cool”, my initial findings were, well…. not so cool. Cuil was founded by two former Google engineers (and another from IBM). Obviously these are very smart folks. According to Cuil, their…