Carnival of Real Estate #59
The 59th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at EKDAY!
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Why Do So Few Realtors Use Virtual Tours?
While browsing through the listings in our office earlier this year I noticed that out of 60 listings that our office had at the time only the listings my wife and I had have virtual tours. This was surprising. So I decided to do some…
Q & A With PropertyQube.Com
A new entrant in the RE.net’s social media category recently launched (in beta of course). Propertyqube describes itself as “A social community which enhances your PropertyLife relationships and experiences.” Nicole Rufuku, one of PropertyQube’s co-founders took the time to answer a few questions about the company,…
BlogRush – Yet Another Widget. But Kinda Cool
Unofficially, there are 1,214,782 blog widgets out there. Some are very cool and useful, others not-so-much. “Blog Rush” is a new widget that (according to them) can drive traffic to your blog: BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their…
Fantasy Real Estate Coming Soon – Realius’s Price Me Now Game to be Launched at TechCrunch40
Realius, which is building a suite of fantasy real estate games, announced that they are unveiling their 1st game — Price Me Now — at the TechCrunch 40 conference. The basic concept of the Price Me Now is to allow people to guess the price…
Property News at Properazzi
Just a quick heads up about you can find a wealth of real estate news aggregated from all over the world at Properazzi News. You can filter to just show stories relating to the market, architecture & design, curious, or eco-living from around the globe….
Q&A with Mark Shacknies, CEO of MyDealBook
MyDealBook is another new site that is focused on tapping into the “wisdom of the crowds”, though it is geared towards the commercial (rather than residential) real estate market. In order to learn more about the company, I decided to do a short e-mail Q&A…
Access Homes and MLS Using Your TREO
First, I have to say that I’m not the biggest fan of the Treo as a PDA. As a Mac user, I’ve sworn my heart to the new Apple iPod touch. I just couldn’t bear to switch to the iPhone due to the super-slow AT&T…
Embeddable Maps from Ask
Mashable clued me into another technology announcement that could potentially benefit the real estate industry — this one mentioned the fact that you can now embed maps from Ask.com into websites and blogs (similar to embeddable Google Maps). One thing to note is something Sean…
Controlling Your Online Identity
There’s a post over at Mashable by Sean Aune titled 25 Tools for Managing Your Online Identity. I think online identity management is an issue real estate professionals should definitely pay attention too. After all, as small business owners, your online identity is your brand…
