In my 8 years in the web business, I’ve seen a lot of web companies raise some serious cash to build a cool website. Everytime I see this happening I scratch my head. They typically go on a spending spree and buy some really nice…

If you’re the kind of person that digs surveys, polls and red-hot press releases, you’ll want to follow the news from two large industry trade associations that came out back to back yesterday. The California Association of Realtors released their results of their latest technology…

I must confess that I was both thrilled and surprised when I was asked to be a contributor to the GeekEstate blog. Sure, I’m involved in real estate, work at an early-stage internet company, and I love blogging, but am I really a geek? Well,…

Today’s launch of Zolve.com has generated some buzz across the real estate blogiverse, and beyond. I haven’t come across a post yet though from someone who actually “joined” the Zolve network. What I’ve seen is bloggers looking at the site from the outside, or discussing…

Google has added additional street views in 6 cities today — Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson. There’s no real real estate tie-in yet, but I’m guessing Google is thinking about integrating it into Google Base as a way to provide buyers a way…

Fellow GeekEstate Blog contributor Brian Wilson’s start-up, Zolve.com, is set to be up and running for everyone as of tomorrow morning. I was going to hold this until tomorrow morning, but given that TechCrunch already covered the site, I figured I would too. What opportunity…

The 62nd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the vFlyer Blog. Congrats to fellow GeekEstate Blog contributor Michael Price for winning the carnival with a post on his personal blog — Real Estate and The Social Network Effect. Update: Being a…

As I peruse my feed reader every day, I “star” posts that I find interesting. Many are technical in nature and I thought they might appeal to some of the readers of Geek Estate. I’m going to try to post geeky links here weekly. The…

These days photo manipulation is making the news all the time. Photo manipulation with Photoshop and other photo editors has become such an issue that Adobe and Cannon have teamed up to create a suite of tools that would allow a photo to be matched…

Here’s a couple links for geeks worth reading (or watching): Website analytics has been a topic I’ve meant to write about for some time on GeekEstate, but Erik Hersman at Future of Real Estate Marketing beat me to it — Statistics and Analytics: Tools The…