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quick, easy, CUSTOM forms for your website

quick, easy, CUSTOM forms for your website

For those of you that love Gmail, Google Docs, Google Analytics and all of the other great tools that Google provides comes another beauty. Now with Google Spreadsheets, you can create a custom form for your website and have your leads fill it in and…

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What Does Myspace's Developer Platform Mean to Real Estate? Anything?

What Does Myspace's Developer Platform Mean to Real Estate? Anything?

Myspace has finally launched a developer platform in an effort to keep up with Facebook’s developer platform. This begs the question — what, if anything, does this mean to the real estate tech industry? Are any real estate web geeks planning on building real estate…

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MicroHoo is Good For Mobile

MicroHoo is Good For Mobile

Everyone in the world is dissecting the potential merger of Microsoft and Yahoo. Joel opines on the impact to real estate search. I haven’t been overly impressed with either company when it comes to the real estate vertical and it’s anyone’s guess whether it will…

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Zilpy – Lots of Market Facts and Trends Related to Local Rental Markets

Zilpy – Lots of Market Facts and Trends Related to Local Rental Markets

Though you might have seen Zilpy’s BETA site sometime over the past month (they’ve been writing on an AR blog the past couple weeks), Zilpy “officially” launched today with a press release. According to their site, Zilpy is a free online rental market facts and…

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Roost.com: A New Player in Real Estate Search

Roost.com: A New Player in Real Estate Search

Roost.com launched this morning at midnight Pacific time. (Full press release is below) Not unexpectedly, those champions of getting the news out to the RE.net — Joel, Dustin and Greg — have already summarized well the features of Roost. Go forth and read their favorable reviews. I…

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Zillow Shares Data on 7,000 Neighborhoods

Zillow Shares Data on 7,000 Neighborhoods

The data geeks over at Zillow Labs are sharing some of their work via a Creative Commons License. It is represents the neighborhood boundaries of over 7,000 locations in major markets across the U.S. What’s cool is the fact that you can make additions and…

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A New and Improved BiggerPockets for Real Estate Investors

A New and Improved BiggerPockets for Real Estate Investors

I’m not involved in real estate investing and haven’t really spent much time on the new BiggerPockets site, but here is a good review by Scott Ficek at Minnesota Investment Real Estate.

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Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia, and other leading companies agree to adopt a common data standard for real estate listings

Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia, and other leading companies agree to adopt a common data standard for real estate listings

A few weeks ago Michael Wurzer of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) posted an open letter to the Yahoo!, Google, Zillow, and Trulia (David Harris touched on this here on GeekEstate too) requesting that we adopt and contribute to the RETS 2.0 standard. From…

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New Zillow Logo

New Zillow Logo

Don’t worry that GeekEstate is turning into some sort of logo reporting blog (see previous post — New Inman Logo — if that makes no sense). Last night Zillow.com pre-released some news to a few bloggers attended Inman Connect NYC that they were rolling out…

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New Inman Logo

New Inman Logo

Inman is planning to launch a completely new website in the next month or so — here’s the new logo they unveiled today at the conference (which I think is a nice improvement). I’m looking forward to the launch of the new site, which will…

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