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…

True Gotham has built a fantastic brand as a valuable resource for anyone interested in the Manhattan real estate market. Doug Heddings, a Senior Vice President and associate real estate broker at Prudential Douglas Elliman, is the man behind the blog and covers topics ranging…

WordPress v2.3 was released on September 24. Since upgrading WordPress can be a hassle, this blogger tends to lag several versions behind. My blog was running on v2.1.2 and given there were reported security issues with that version, I took the plunge into upgrading. Version…

Actually, it didn’t save my life, but it has saved me an amazing amount of time and hassle. So it has saved some precious moments of my life. I know a lot of folks hear about CSS and wonder…”What the heck is it? Is is…