Jon Washburn has publicly hinted at the fact that the new Localism site is coming soon. From seeing Jon’s blog post today and looking at the Localism homepage, it seems that day is July 9th. Any guesses as to what the focus of the new…

Many online classifieds don’t directly reflect data of ‘how long a property has been on the market’ as top-level information for online consumers. Recently, we were browsing listings in the Phoenix metropolitan and came across a “choice” listing online (20 photos, good detail, virtual tour, video tour, etc)…a…

Google has released an iPhone specific version of its popular instant messaging client, GoogleTalk. I had a chance this evening to give it a try during a brief chat session with Drew Meyers and I must say it worked flawlessly. The speed is good and…

Is e-mail in danger? That’s the question Alex Iskold at ReadWriteWeb set about to answer with his post yesterday. With Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, text messaging, blogs, wikis, Skype, instant messaging, and the array of other online communication tools available, the question of whether e-mail is…

Google will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August. Are you a Google Affiliate or Publisher? Here are some alternative options they are asking users to consider before this version of AdSense goes away: The Google Affiliate Network as part…

There are 130 real estate web 2.0 logos — do you see your logo?

Here is a plugin worth looking into — the Great Real Estate Plugin. There is a great write up over at MyTechOpinion for those that want an overview.

There is a new article submission site coming up on the horizon. This one hits a niche that is close to home for the real estate tech industry, an article submission site that’s clean and simple. Real Estate Voices seems like a quick clean, easy…

This morning, I was fortunate to meet Gary Vaynerchuk, star of WineLibraryTV (and, interestingly, a top-20-to-30-most-followed-person-on-twitter.) Gary is a web video rock-star and his insights on personal branding and Web 2.0 marketing opportunities are seemingly endless. This video is just 3 minutes long; you can…

Myspace’s DataAvailability functionality is live at developer.myspace.com. Here is a test application from TechCrunch that should give you a feel for what is possible. I’m not sure if there are legal or technical restrictions that would prevent this, but one possible use of DataAvailability could…