When it comes to your linking strategy, are you in the “Don’t Link to External Sites” camp? If so, Rand at SEOmoz has some points you might want to consider. And if that post doesn’t convince you that not linking out is a bad strategy,…

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…

Let’s break away from the traditional mold and talk about online listing services in Sweden (where I live). Among the first to display listings online Already in 1996 it was possible to search for houses on sale using Internet through the Bovision service. (The service was a…

There is a new article submission site coming up on the horizon. This one hits a niche that is close to home for the real estate tech industry, an article submission site that’s clean and simple. Real Estate Voices seems like a quick clean, easy…

Myspace’s DataAvailability functionality is live at developer.myspace.com. Here is a test application from TechCrunch that should give you a feel for what is possible. I’m not sure if there are legal or technical restrictions that would prevent this, but one possible use of DataAvailability could…

You may have already seen the news (Techmeme coverage), but news voting site reddit is now open source. I’m not sure how many web developers will be at RE Bar Camp, but it could be fun project to build a real estate version of reddit…

I recently ran across an excellent online real estate marketing guide, written by the folks at MortgageCalculator.org. Topics covered include: Domain NamesKeyword ResearchPay Per Click Search Engine MarketingWeb AnalyticsOn Page OptimizationLink BuildingContent SyndicationBlogging The guide is well written, in easy to understand non-geek speak. Deeply…

I just saw the news over at Mashable regarding the new Yahoo Address Book API. According to Charles Wu, the product manager for the Yahoo! address book platform, here are a couple things you can do with the API: Obtain unique identifiers (i.e., email addresses)…

I read some stuff the other day about how the talented crew over at Estately recently launched into the Portland, OR market, and one of the stupid MLS rules (my opinion) they had to face triggered some memories of frustrations I had faced when I…

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…