ActiveRain (AR), a large network of real estate professionals just announced they have launched “Outside Blogs”. Here is the initial announcement from Brad Andersohn, Active Rain Community Builder and GeekEstateBlog contributor. What is an Active Rain Outside Blog (AROB)? That’s ARspeak for a blog that…

This may be how the next generation will view Real Estate too. Consider the value of this to someone who is relocating. Will this technology be incorporated to the Virtual Tour in the future? This tutorial of Street View and Google Maps is quite impressive….

Sawbuck Realty announced today that their site visitors have viewed over 1,000,000 listings since the site went live — on January 30th. That’s a pretty serious ramp-up in traffic — evidence to me that consumers out there like, want and need an easy-to-use online home search…

Like many others today I followed live blogging of the Apple world wide developer conference today. Everyone anxiously awaited the moment when Mr. Jobs would announce the existence of the next generation device. He did not disappoint. I’ve followed most of the rumors leading up…

Twitter and WWDC Effect Monday is Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference and Geekdom anxiously awaits the rumored announcement of iPhone 2.0. If you’re thinking about using Twitter for something important, you might be up a &8$% creek. Twitter may have taken on 15 million business…

Probably as a result of coming on a day where the NAR-DOJ agreement stole the headlines, there was an announcement today in the real estate tech world that went largely unnoticed — Local Matters and Point2 announced “an Agreement of Sale and Cooperation for Point2’s…

In case you missed it, there is a new aggregator on the scene in the real estate industry — RealSeekr, which was announced early this week and was covered on Agent Genius yesterday (and there are already 30 comments). When I was in New York…

Looking for a cool web site analytics package? Look no further than Woopra. Currently in “live beta”, you’ll need to go to the site and request an account. And be prepared to wait — the waiting list is long. It took me about a month to…

I thought the fact that Point2 and RealtyTrac announced a marketing partnership today might be of interest to some of you.

Coldwell Banker announced at an O’Reilly conference today that it is teaming up with Dash to add their listings as a home search feed for Dash Express GPS navigation device owners. Dash touts itself as “the first two-way, Internet-connected GPS navigation system”. Dash also provides…