Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to be involved with the development of several real estate technology initiatives involving the licensing of MLS data. It can be a daunting task to work through the intricacies and nuances that are so disparate from one market to another….

One of the guest contributors or I write about some of the topics and news specific to real estate industry. For those topics, of course you can discuss them in the comments. But we don’t write about everything, and we never will. That said, wouldn’t it be cool if there…

If you currently have a project you’re looking to execute on, and budget allocated for it… shoot me an email (drew at ohheyworld dot com). I can offer a good rate on a rails developer in need of a bit of contract work over the next…

I saw this infographic the other day on entrepreneur.com: The first step made me think of real estate right away: “Find a product that is popular but not yet perfect.” Does that not describe virtually everything in real estate? Practically every tech tool I use…

For the geeks who know what GitHub is, and use it…you should watch this Pando Monthly video with its founder, Tom Preston-Werner… There is a real estate angle in there — Tom bought a house while in debt and without any sort of proof he was…

The coders reading, would be wise to take note that Trulia released some open source code today — the Trulia Java RETS Client. It is an open source RETS data feed importer — meaning it should vastly speed up the time it takes to start working…

This is the fourth  in a series of articles about Broker/Agent Real Estate Websites. Now we dig into to the mobile design. First the Non Goals of my Mobile Site Not every page needs a counter mobile page. For the pages in need of a…

This is the second in a series of articles about Broker/Agent Real Estate Websites.  (first article here). Budget will drive this selection . Considerations include: Power -Ram Size and number of cores Reliability -Uptime, Security Support -Managed? Backup Is a dedicated server required?  You could…

I’ve now taken 20 calls on Clarity.fm (my profile here). There are two distinct types of people that schedule calls: Entrepreneurs in various stages of bringing an idea to light, desiring either technical help & direction or general advice around how to navigate the industry (&…

There are dozens of app ideas floating around this industry (I wrote a few of mine here). Some of them terrible; others amazing. As you likely know, building apps is not cheap. Which begs the question, how do you know if an idea is worth…