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…

Damon Pace at Incredible Agent is hosting “Meet The Bloggers” at the upcoming NAR Expo. I have been working the past few days to invite a group of great real estate bloggers to provide attendees with some insight to their experiences with blogging as well…

Whether it be Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Zillow (my employer), Facebook, or somewhere else — I think it’s safe to say many real estate professionals are actively advertising online. For those who do advertise online, you should be giving some thought to the “landing page” that…