Christopher Zabka & I have launched a new blog titled Real Estate Politics and we’d love to get feedback from the Geek Estate audience. The purpose of the blog is to encourage balanced discussion of industry topics, with the goal of allowing both sides to…

Last week, I read about MoveSmart.org at ReadWriteWeb (also coverage at Wikinomics) and thought some of the real estate geeks reading Geek Estate might be interested in the project. According to MoveSmar.org – Until now, information on neighborhoods has been buried in the back of…

Back in January, you might have read the news of the upcoming common data standard that Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia are working on, and I have an update to share — there is significant progress being made!! There’s a big meeting today down at Trulia’s offices…

The 77th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at Property Grunt.

Ok, maybe not just like Britney. But you’re closer than you think. Did you know “Britney Spears” is one of the most searched keywords in both Yahoo and Google? It’s not likely as many people search your name. However your name is a keyword ,…

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I’ve talked about About Adobe Lightroom in a previous posts. Lightroom has become the center of my work-flow for photography. It’s everything a camera owner needs. One of of Lightroom’s fantastic features is it’s ability to take a collection of finish photos and FTP them…

The folks at Agent Genius have rallied the RE.net for the purpose of raising money for a good cause. If you want to help, here’s the details: [Help] This week, thousands of people lost their homes and over 54 lost their lives. The destruction is…

Myspace has finally launched a developer platform in an effort to keep up with Facebook’s developer platform. This begs the question — what, if anything, does this mean to the real estate tech industry? Are any real estate web geeks planning on building real estate…

Real Estate blogging has many advantages for real estate professionals. Drew Meyers and Brian Rothenberg recently talked about tips for marketing your blog. In addition to those two great posts, bloggers need to be aware of what their users are looking for, then cater to…