I’m pleased to announce a geeky colleague of mine at Zillow as a Geek Estate contributor — Peter Quinlan, who was recently brought on to improve Zillow’s SEO. However, though he’s new to Zillow, he’s certainly no stranger to the real estate tech world —…

There’s been lots of commentary on future of the the newspaper business over the past couple weeks. But, the point of this post is not to throw my thoughts on the subject out there — it’s just to highlight a cool web site involving newspapers…

Google Blogoscoped is a nifty little blog that is chocked full of all sorts of Google goodness. From posts about Google history, to what makes Google tick, to new Googelish features, it is a great add to any geek’s feed reader. It is not an…

Check out Daniel Rothamel’s video — episode #1 of “Real Estate in Black and White”. After watching this, I hope you get the message. [via FoREM & Agent Genius]

As a web developer, I have the fun of creating feeds for different agents to use as a means to get their listings onto some of the bigger listing web sites (Trulia, Zillow, formerly edgeio, Vast, etc.). All of these sites have different specifications as…

Showing off a listing with large (800×600) photos presented with a smooth, elegant Flash interface is an extremely effective. One of the easiest an most inexpensive ways of doing that is with a buildatour.com slide show. Out of hundreds of alternatives for presenting this kind…

Here’s another link for you geeks out there — particularly if you’re trying to design a user-friendly real estate web page that appeals to consumers. While a bare-bones, data driven site might get the job done — in my opinion, good web design is essential…

Are you an agent looking for marketing advice? If so, International Listings has put out a list of the “Top 50 Real Estate Marketing Bloggers” worth checking out. It breaks out marketing blogs by type — general marketing, internet marketing, coaches, development properties, and marketing…

The 71st edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at the Laguna Niguel Real Estate Blog.

The other day, Drew Meyers pointed me to a post in the Zillow forums where someone was asking some very interesting (and seemingly common) questions about IDX. The individual wanted to know what IDX essentially is and whether or not someone could create a program…