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…

Doug McCune (the Flex Master) teamed up with the folks over at Universal Mind to develop an interesting and useful system for displaying photos on a map. Their MapMyPix AIR application allows real estate professionals (and everyone else) to display series of photographs in their…

I was notified of the upcoming Top Producer 8i website today. I’d heard rumors that agents were testing Top Producer 8i Beta earlier this summer, but never received full details on the differences in the new version. The Top Producer team seems to be integrating…

I mentioned the idea of a Broker Blogger this weekend with my Q&A with Kevin Boer. However, I wanted to dig a little deeper on the subject, so I decided to do a Q&A with yet another Broker Blogger. This time, it’s Ardell DellLoggia —…