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Welcome Peter Chiu to GeekEstate Blog

Welcome Peter Chiu to GeekEstate Blog

I’m happy to announce another contributor to the GeekEstate team — Peter Chiu from Yahoo! Real Estate. Here’s a couple words from Peter: I originally come from an engineering background at a startup company in NYC but I’ve always been interested in real estate. Recently…

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Helping You Improve SEO – Peter Quinlan

Helping You Improve SEO – Peter Quinlan

I’m pleased to announce a geeky colleague of mine at Zillow as a Geek Estate contributor — Peter Quinlan, who was recently brought on to improve Zillow’s SEO. However, though he’s new to Zillow, he’s certainly no stranger to the real estate tech world —…

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Carnival of Real Estate #71

Carnival of Real Estate #71

The 71st edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at the Laguna Niguel Real Estate Blog.

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Geekin' It Up With Everyone Else

Geekin' It Up With Everyone Else

Hey there GeekEstate Blog readers. My name is Andrew Mattie, and I’m a senior software engineer over at Diverse Solutions. I was recently approached by Drew and asked if I wanted to contribute my knowledge and expertise to the GeekEstate Blog, and after thinking about…

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Top 10 Google Searches

Top 10 Google Searches

As another year comes to an end, it’s always fun to look back and reflect on what happened, what we accomplished, where we went and so on. As a Geek, here’s my contribution. With no further adieu, here are the 2007 Top 10 Google searches……

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Welcome Kurtis Holsapple to GeekEstate

Welcome Kurtis Holsapple to GeekEstate

I’m pleased to add another geeky author to the GeekEstate mix of regular contributors — Kurtis Holsapple. If you’re a regular reader, you’ve likely seen some of Kurtis’ writing already. Kurtis specializes in real estate & small business websites and Open Source Software like GNU/Linux,…

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Carnival of Real Estate #69

Carnival of Real Estate #69

The 69th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at John Barker’s Mortgage Blog.

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Welcome Denny Oh to the GeekEstate Team

Welcome Denny Oh to the GeekEstate Team

Though Denny Oh has already written several posts here, I’d like to take a moment to officially welcome Denny to the GeekEstate Blog team as a regular contributor — you’ll notice his photo now resides on the sidebar along with all of our other fantastic…

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Good morning Las Vegas; Don't forget to Meet the Bloggers at NAR today and tomorrow.

Good morning Las Vegas; Don't forget to Meet the Bloggers at NAR today and tomorrow.

I’m about to jump on a plane for Vegas and the NAR conference. This is my first visit to Sin City (yes, ever!) but it’s unfortunately also going to be a quick one – home tomorrow – things are busy (especially without Drew around.) Before…

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GPS & Home Listings…Coming Soon!

GPS & Home Listings…Coming Soon!

My head spun when I saw this video. It shows how Dash GPS has begun to mashup open API’s from the web and putting them into GPS navigation devices. The video shows the users driving around Silicon Valley looking at home values from Zillow as…

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