Since launching their “1000watt Index” in January, the folks over at 1000watt Consulting have amassed quite the collection of real estate technology service providers. Today they announced that the index has gone global, and is now called the Global Real Estate Index — complete with…

Literally. Google’s local listing in their search results are now larger then the organic listings. Take a look at this Google search for “Hawaii Big Island real estate.” The first 7 listings are large local results with only 6 natural listings below. The reason this…

Will Google Instant Change The Longtail As We Know It? Recently, I was on Maui (I know…I live a tough life) helping top Wailea real estate agent, Dano Sayles, get up to speed with Hawaii Life’s back end tools. While I was there, I had…

This is just a hunch, but I believe the fact that NAR has allowed Realtor.com to aggregate MLS data & syndicate all their listings is a direct response to the Zillow deal with Yahoo! Real Estate. Zillow will be syndicating all their listings to Yahoo!…

Google Instant is here. And it’s cool — head to Google.com and try it out by starting to type in the search box. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElubRNRIUg4 As with any change with Google, there is a wealth of speculation. Speculation as to what Instant means to SEO and…

“This is not my Locker” I know it is inevitable that I will be asked (perhaps 100’s of times) “What did you learn from Inman Connect SF this week”? or “What was the most interesting thing you learned at Inman Connect SF”? or some variation…

You’ve probably seen the news that Zillow is going to be the exclusive provider of listings to Yahoo! Real Estate, as well as be the exclusive seller of ads to agents and brokers for inventory on YRE. What is the significance of the number 2…

Steve Jobs took the stage again at the annual Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference. As expected, details about the 4.0 release of the iPhone operating system were made. It’s now called iOS, a trademark they had to license from Cisco, that better represents the fact…

Zillow is proud to announce that Jay Thompson, AKA The Phoenix Real Estate Guy (and GEB contributor) is taking over the operation of the Carnival of Real Estate. For the few people out there unfamiliar with Jay, he is a pioneer in the realm of…

Please join me in welcoming our newest GeekEstate blog contributor, Chris Raines of Cevado Technologies. Chris Raines – Cevado Technologies,  CEO and Co-founder – Along with his business partner Cliff Bonnell-Jones, formerly of ABCnews.com and NFL.com, his company has been able to leverage technology and marketing expertise …