I am fortunate to live in an area of Chicago that is booming (we even got a new zip code last week!) and as such, many new real estate brokerages have opened up.  How do I know this?  Because I happen and see some balloons…

Zillow launched the Geek Estate Blog roughly a year ago and we thought it was about time to give the blog a fresh new look to make it feel a bit more “techy”. If you find anything buggy that needs to be fixed, have a…

For example, check out this post titled “Make Your Blog Irresistably Sticky” by Lani at Agent Genius — it’s the most creative post I’ve seen in quite some time.

As the event gets closer, many are rushing to get flights, accommodations and tickets to Brad Inmans RE Connect in San Francisco next week. The event is scheduled for 3 days July 23rd – 25th. The REBlogCamp will be on Tuesday, July 22nd. Here are…

Joel at FoREM has the scoop regarding the fact that you can now register .ME domain names. Not all registrations today went smoothly — actually, far from it. Apparently, there was a massive load on GoDaddy’s servers today from the “landrush” that resulted in multiple…

1000Watt Consulting just released an updated Real Estate 2.0 Mind Map the other day — click here to check it out.

Lead Generation 1.0: Challenges with Lead Generation Today The lead generation industry has been significantly impacted by legislation, a downturn in the economy and tightening of consumer credit. In 2007 and 2008, several large lead generation companies went out of business or stopped generating leads…

On Friday I managed to update my “old” iPhone to 2.0 software. I think iPhone apps and the iTunes app store are the most significant feature of the recent Apple iPhone upgrade circus. Since I’m a hopelessly addicted 360 image geek the first iPhone app…

Take a tip from me. If you’re a first gen iPhone user, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO UPGRADE TO THE NEW FIRMWARE. Give it a few days. The iTunes server will most likely render your phone useless as it has in my case. After downloading and…

What does the Localism Real-Estate Revolution Mean? As of July 9th Active Rain opened up “The New Localism”, which has been in beta with ActiveRain for a while. The marketing for the site is that it will be a “revolution in real-estate”. In the past,…