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,…

iPods. Treo 700p. Torents. Guitar Hero. Jager Bombs. Flash Drives. Wikipedia. Google Earth. Rehab (not the AA kind). 802.11a/b/g/n. SMS/MMS. If you just read this and have no idea what I’m talking about, then chances are, you’re not part of my generation. What is my…

A freelance developer, Leo Chan, has released something that might interest some of you working with the Zillow API — an open source ruby wrapper for the Zillow API that converts the xml returned via the API into a ruby hash/array format. For real estate…

Zolve (reviewed here) has changed a lot since it was first released 3 weeks ago. The most visible change has been in its pricing model. At launch, a Zolve membership was $395 (intro price. To escalate to $1,000 after year one!). It was recently reduced…

In my morning blog reading, I found a quick tip worth bringing more attention to — Marian Bennett, an agent for Coldwell Banker, posted Improving communication with easy tech tools that highlighted an interesting way to use Google Alerts to determine which real estate listing…

The 65th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the Arizona Mortgage Guru.

There were three geeky stories that grabbed most of the blogspace this week: Google Page Rank Updates Much of the blogiverse was in a tizzy this week as several major blogs took a big hit in Google Page Rank (PR). We’re talking about major blogs…