Early this morning, Google announced they’ve added Street View imagery for 8 cities (23 totaly cities currently covered). The 8 new cities are Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Providence. The pace at which cities are being added is pretty impressive…

Owen Raun of Online Mortgage Podcast did a great interview with Amy Bouhtinsky, Director of Communications with Zillow.Com. It’s very comprehensive and does a great job of explaining Zillow’s business model, recent announcements and upcoming products. My recent trip to the NAR convention underscored a…

Trulia has introduced “Trulia Agent Featured Listings“. Here’s the highlights: Features: Photo & contact info. featured on your Trulia listings, as well as a new email tool enabling consumers to email property inquiries directly to your mailbox Totally new, enhanced property detail page embedded with…

Google Analytics If you use Google Analytics to analyze your web/blog traffic (and you do use something, right?), there is a nifty new addition. You can now have Analytics track and report on what how your web/blog visitors are using your site’s internal search function….

Zolve (reviewed here) has changed a lot since it was first released 3 weeks ago. The most visible change has been in its pricing model. At launch, a Zolve membership was $395 (intro price. To escalate to $1,000 after year one!). It was recently reduced…

Doug McCune (the Flex Master) teamed up with the folks over at Universal Mind to develop an interesting and useful system for displaying photos on a map. Their MapMyPix AIR application allows real estate professionals (and everyone else) to display series of photographs in their…

I was notified of the upcoming Top Producer 8i website today. I’d heard rumors that agents were testing Top Producer 8i Beta earlier this summer, but never received full details on the differences in the new version. The Top Producer team seems to be integrating…

I’ve been on vacation the past few days, so maybe I missed the announcement. But there is no sign of it on the Zolve Blog… It seems upstart Zolve.com, a “referral network” (my term, not theirs) has slashed their membership price from $395 per year to…

After having shut down hacked iPhones, it turns out Apple is focused on creating an open platform for the iPhone afterall — Third Party Applications on the iPhone Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan…

Today’s launch of Zolve.com has generated some buzz across the real estate blogiverse, and beyond. I haven’t come across a post yet though from someone who actually “joined” the Zolve network. What I’ve seen is bloggers looking at the site from the outside, or discussing…