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…

The 76th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Searchlight Crusade.

I receive the Luxury Insights newsletter from the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing each week. They recently created a members-only Facebook Group for social networking as well as a group on Linked In. I plan to expand my market this year, so signed up for…

Everyone in the world is dissecting the potential merger of Microsoft and Yahoo. Joel opines on the impact to real estate search. I haven’t been overly impressed with either company when it comes to the real estate vertical and it’s anyone’s guess whether it will…

A real estate website lacking a property search tool is not only non-competitive, but in this day and age, it can be safely called obsolete. Assuming you are a Realtor who sees the importance of keeping up-to-date technologically, the next question is: where to start?…

Wow, two in one week — we’ve got another contributor joining our ranks! Please join me in welcoming Kaya Hardin to the Geek Estate Blog team! Kaya focuses on Media Relations for IDX, Inc., a company nationally known as a leading provider of real estate…

In short, I think embedding Google Street View imagery into a single property website is a great idea. Zoltan at RealBird has a writeup that shows how to embed street view imagery into a RealBird single property site. Or you can use MyMarketWare to integrate…

Recently at the DEMO Conference (a conference for start-ups to showcase their new technologies), a company called Sprout launched a new application that allows anyone to create a professional Widget. Real Estate agents will like this new slick tool in that it is very easy…