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…

One of the big social bookmarking platforms has been Mixx.com; it is a very 2.0 platform allowing submission of articles, pictures and videos. They’ve taken the next step in branching out into becoming a full blown Social Media site by releasing their Mixx Communities. This…

ActiveRain (AR), a large network of real estate professionals just announced they have launched “Outside Blogs”. Here is the initial announcement from Brad Andersohn, Active Rain Community Builder and GeekEstateBlog contributor. What is an Active Rain Outside Blog (AROB)? That’s ARspeak for a blog that…

This might be a little off topic and not relevant to the US market (yet), but it is “geeky” and pretty cool, so I’ll post it anyway. Google MapMaker, which is Google’s attempt at using its massive community of users to improve their Google Maps…

When considering obtaining optimal face-time for your listings in classified sites, we commonly think in-terms of selecting values from a drop-down list, a checkbox…number of baths, bedrooms, garage size, lot size, mountain or ocean view, etc…equally true from perspective of (a) adding a listing and…

Here are a couple links worth noting — Tracking the real estate web in real-time – FeedPot.com BIRDVIEW Widens On-Line Marketing Reach for Real Estate Brokerage Clients Introducing StepRep from MyFrontSteps How to Increase Your Blog Subscription Rate by 254%

You may have already seen the news (Techmeme coverage), but news voting site reddit is now open source. I’m not sure how many web developers will be at RE Bar Camp, but it could be fun project to build a real estate version of reddit…

As an owner of an online marketing tool that is always expanding its options and features, I am wondering what technology enhancements does to your listing fee.  We all know that in each brokerage there are those that “Get It” and those that don’t.  With…

I recently ran across an excellent online real estate marketing guide, written by the folks at MortgageCalculator.org. Topics covered include: Domain NamesKeyword ResearchPay Per Click Search Engine MarketingWeb AnalyticsOn Page OptimizationLink BuildingContent SyndicationBlogging The guide is well written, in easy to understand non-geek speak. Deeply…