I recently did an interview with a national business publication regarding consumer usage of the web in real estate. One of the questions I was asked is why the web has been become so important recently to the strategy of real estate professionals. The answer…

Setting up an XML feed for your listings is a great way to get added exposure for your listings by syndicating them to a variety of real estate portals. Since I’m helping support the coming Zillow Listings Feed program, I’ve had conversations with agents, brokers,…

Most readers of GeekEstate Blog are probably, well, Geeks. That being the case, some of you might be interested in reading the latest blog post on TravelHacker  — Top 25 Vacation Destinations Where a Nerd Can Get Laid. For those looking for a cruise, check out…

Google Analytics If you use Google Analytics to analyze your web/blog traffic (and you do use something, right?), there is a nifty new addition. You can now have Analytics track and report on what how your web/blog visitors are using your site’s internal search function….

I have done several posts in the last couple of weeks that touched on podcasting and got a surprising amount of interest! As I mentioned in some of my early posts on the subject, the term “podcast” comes from the iPod, Apple’s market leading mp3…

The 66th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the Real Estate Convergence.

Do you know what to get your favorite Geek this holiday season? I know, I know. Thanksgiving isn’t even here yet and I’m already talking about holiday presents, but hear me out. If you’re like me and most of my geek friends, you’ve become complacent…

The slide show above (Click here or on the image above to view) is an example of the kind of tour I’m seeing more and more in upper-end marketing. This particular example is technically tour and a property site since it has it’s own URL….

By now, many of you have probably heard of OpenSocial (part of the reason Google’s stock is now above $700). OpenSocial is said to be Google’s answer to Facebook and has been all over the blogosphere the last several days. What exactly is it? OpenSocial…

Here’s a link for the geeks out there — I just noticed GeekEstate Blog made the “Blogs” category of 1000watt’s Real Estate Web 2.0 page, which highlights the “who’s who” of real estate web 2.0. In addition to the blogs category, other categories included neighborhood/local,…