Last week, I drove up to Pasadena, Ca, to attend my first RE BarCamp.  For those of you who don’t know, RE BarCamp is a “FREE Social Media Marketing event based on BarCamp.org principals.“  Basically, people from the RE community(Realtors, vendors, developers, etc) attend these…

Flickr.com is one of my favorite photo hosting sites. The SEO generated from Flickr is just one reason I use their “paid” service and membership.  Having said that, here’s a brand new feature PhotoBucket just announced that I hope Flickr will investigate and soon incorporate….

If you look in the upper right corner, you’ll see we hit a milestone here at Geek Estate today — 1,000 RSS subscribers!! Thank you to all the great contributors, commentors, and readers that have made it all possible.

The actual process of buying real estate in emerging markets like Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Belize is similar to the US, and fairly straight-forward. But finding the right property, at the right price, is an altogether different proposition. There’s no Zillow to help you…

It started in San Francisco, and has since had stops in Houston and New York City. The next stop for the Real Estate Barcamp movement will be in GeekEstate Blog’s back yard, Seattle. Drew Meyers at Zillow, along wth Rich Jacobson and Brad Andersohn of…

We’re happy to have the CoRE back here at Geek Estate this week. What was I looking for? As you may or may not know, I’m a huge fan of a strong personal voice, so that was a high priority in my selection process. I…

If you reside in the greater Manhattan area and/or attending Inman’s Real Estate Connect conference in January, I’d highly recommend you come a day early for REBarcamp NYC 2009 on January 6th. Here is the Facebook Group & the event page. I know the organizers…

The 120th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at Realty Thoughts. Dustin Luther ran away with top honors this week for his post titled The trouble with Marc’s approach to Twitter.

That’s right.  It’s gonna “rain” this year, but not on the parade.  ActiveRain Corp. is a proud sponsor of the Real Estate BarCamp this year being held in Houston, Texas.  Rumor has it that Rich Jacobson aka (Sparky) and Brad Andersohn aka (Active Brad) will…

Fellow Geek Estate contributor Mike Price had the chance to meet Guy Kawasaki at the BlogWorld Expo and turned that into a chance to record a podcast with Guy. He posted the interview over at his blog, but I thought I’d share it here as…