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Comparing "AddThis" to "ShareThis"

Comparing "AddThis" to "ShareThis"

There are a couple of really great tools you can use on your Blog posts. One is Addthis.com and the other is ShareThis.com. Both have some great features for the growing Social Bookmarking phenomena. I wanted to share them both and at the same time…

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Real Estate Blogs on the iPhone

Real Estate Blogs on the iPhone

Do you have an iPhone and read real estate blogs? If so, Dennis McGuire coded up a “blog reader” for the iPhone — http://www.irealtyblogs.com. The site pulls feeds from all Dennis’ favorite blogs from the RE.net into one. Currently, the feeds from the following blogs…

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Cuil.com – Not so Cool

Cuil.com – Not so Cool

Cuil.com, a new search engine, was released to much fanfare earlier this week. Pronounced “Cool”, my initial findings were, well…. not so cool. Cuil was founded by two former Google engineers (and another from IBM). Obviously these are very smart folks. According to Cuil, their…

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Notes from RE Bar Camp

Notes from RE Bar Camp

I’ve met many of the real estate bloggers I read on a daily basis at prior conferences, but there were still a few that alluded me — until yesterday. Andy, Brad, Maureen, Benn and Lani, and Magnus (who is now a guest author here on…

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360 Tours On Your iPhone 2.0 – Well Sort Of

360 Tours On Your iPhone 2.0 – Well Sort Of

On Friday I managed to update my “old” iPhone to 2.0 software. I think iPhone apps and the iTunes app store are the most significant feature of the recent Apple iPhone upgrade circus. Since I’m a hopelessly addicted 360 image geek the first iPhone app…

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iPhone 2.0hhh Nooo!

iPhone 2.0hhh Nooo!

Take a tip from me. If you’re a first gen iPhone user, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO UPGRADE TO THE NEW FIRMWARE. Give it a few days. The iTunes server will most likely render your phone useless as it has in my case. After downloading and…

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GoogleTalk Released For The iPhone

GoogleTalk Released For The iPhone

Google has released an iPhone specific version of its popular instant messaging client, GoogleTalk. I had a chance this evening to give it a try during a brief chat session with Drew Meyers and I must say it worked flawlessly. The speed is good and…

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iPhone 2.0 – It's Official

iPhone 2.0 – It's Official

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…

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iPhoneApalooza

iPhoneApalooza

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…

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REALTOOLS for REALTORS®

REALTOOLS for REALTORS®

In the never ending quest to find new and useful tools to Blog about, and to share with REALTORS® all across the Country, I thought it might be useful to list some of the Top sites I have discovered over this past year. If you’re…

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