If you follow the Curbed blog, you probably saw Lockhart’s post today mentioning the new Curbed Marketplace. What is it? From their help page: It’s a place for sellers and brokers to post real estate listings, and for buyers to browse and search them. But…

Recommendations from friends has historically been the way agents are chosen by buyers and sellers, but with the amount of information now available online, buyers & sellers are doing their research and reaching their own conclusions about which agent is best for them. The Washingont…

preface: I have been away from the blogging scene for far too long. The “Future of the MLS” topic seemed a perfect opportunity to throw my hat back in the ring. A brief recap of the posts on the “Future of the MLS”: Matt Cohen…

After my last post about utilizing video because of the potential audience across Youtube, I stumbled over this brilliant marketing video that actually originated from Zillow. Great Job Guys! My favorite part if the guy at the end crashing into the table.

Tim O’Reilly wonders (out-loud) whether linking to yourself is the future of the web — I hope not. He ends the post with two guidelines worth thinking through: Ensure that no more than 50% of the links on any page are to yourself. (Even this…

Youtube Usage 2008 WeeklySEO clued me into a a PDF from Google for 2008 that provides some recent stats about YouTube usuage. It is full of really interesting and detailed information about JUST HOW MUCH YouTube has grown and how much use it is getting….

The video player Viddler.com made a great adjustment to their system by allowing anyone to upload a logo into the player. Normally this was something that only their top users could do (read: Gary Vaynerchuk, iJustine) but now, everyone has the ability to do so….

Pat Kitano and Kevin Boer from Domus Consulting and Transparent RE will be conducting a 13 week webinar series on the topic of Social Media Marketing, Networking, and all the other elements of what makes this new phenomenon have such an impact on the Real…

How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? I just wrote a post here a few days ago comparing AddThis.com to ShareThis.com and got some really great responses. Now there’s even a site AddToAny.com. I found it interesting that the place…

Ubertor has launched a new feature within the control panel that allows real estate agents to upload videos to their Ubertor control panel and have them automatically syndicate out to our distribution partners. [via Ubertor]