ActiveRain, the “social network” for real estate professionals, has announced they are close to rolling out “Outside Blogs”. Outside Blogs takes the ActiveRain blogging platform outside the confines of the ActiveRain network, allowing the 60,000+ members of the network to have a blog outside of…

There is a great video interview on Reachd with Matt Cutts, who is the head of Google’s webspam team. There are lots of other great videos on Reachd TV.

There is a new Google API that might be of interest to some of you who are looking for a means to easily turn numeric data (such as real estate market statistics) on your site into something more visually appealing — the Google Chart API….

Rodney Bartlett of Reachd.com interviews Vanessa Fox of Ignition Partners (formally of Google.com and Zillow.com). The main question.. what would Vanessa do if she was a real estate agent?

The 69th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at John Barker’s Mortgage Blog.

Most agents have a website that is maintained by some agency. These vary from very boring templates where you have very little control, to sites that give you a wide range of control over every aspect of the site. The problem I have seen most…

What would a good real estate photography setup be if you were purchasing today? CNET currently rates the Nikon D80 and Canon EOS Rebel XT as the top DSLRs under $1,000. Both of these cameras are in the top 5 best selling DSLRs in the…

Do you understand blogging? Like, really understand it? If not, don’t worry — you’re not alone. Here’s a video from the Common Craft show that makes blogging simple to understand. [via Realivent Blog]

Earlier today I was assisting a client in adding some content to his Realtor.Com template web site. While viewing the source of his main page I stumbled upon some commented code. Commented code is used by web and software developers to communicate in situations where…

Blogging is one of the primary activities associate with real estate web 2.0 and a vital means of creating community, according to Brian Boero of 1000Watt Consulting in his post-NAR interview on Inman TV interview with Joel Burselm. While Blogging can be a powerful tool,…