“Elegant in its simplicity” is a good way to describe the suite of web based software tools from Chicago based 37 Signals.Com. From their home page: “We believe most software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion.” Have you used…

Pingdom is an “uptime monitoring” company. They monitor your website or blog (up to five different domain names) at user definable intervals and will notify you if your site is unreachable. Sometime yesterday, they announced they would be offering 1,000 free yearly accounts for Firefox…

In no particular order, here are 40 ways to make a great real estate agent website. 1. add a blog: write about you, your business, your expertise, your area, etc 2. write a good biography that talks about you, your education, past employment, places you’ve…

We all see those YouTube videos embedded everywhere across the Internet. Google has just implemented the same technology that allowed everyone to place videos onto their blog, myspace account, website, etc. to their Google Maps solution. Take a look at the official announcment. In case…

When you are choosing a camera to use for real estate photography there are two key considerations: Does the camera have or can you adapt it to have a wide-angle lens? Can the camera be used easily with an external flash? These two factors are…

I’m very pleased to announce that Larry Lohrman is joining the regular contributors on the sidebar at GeekEstate Blog. Larry is a professional photographer specializing in real estate photography and 360VR. In addition, he is the founder of the Photography For Real Estate, a blog…

There was a fantastic discussion at Gnomedex (the “Blogosphere’s Conference”) last weekend led by my colleague, Vanessa Fox, that touched on a very interesting & important subject — How Much of Your Digital Identity Do you Control? Specifically, she talked “about how the more you…

The 55th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is up at TheLandJournal! Update: I’m excited to say that we’ll be hosting the carnival here at GeekEstate Blog next week to fill in for Manhattan Real Estate Voice, whose author is swamped with other commitments….

There is a great conversation (51 comments) occurring on Lani’s A Call for ALL to Participate in Blog Transparency at R.E.Revealed. Lani added PHP code to her blog that displays the IP address of each commenter as a way to thwart anonymous “trolls” who aim…

We’re all searching for that perfect real estate lead; the one that calls you out of the blue and says… “I want to buy a $1 million home next week and I want you to represent me”. That’s a no brainer. Who wouldn’t want to…