More about API’s. We’re excited about these because they are, according to Elias Bizannes,  “the center of the mashup culture that is permeating the web”. They allow different websites to interact with each other to create new ideas. Read it in detail on his blog titled: The business model of API’s.

Chris Johnson over at Guerrilla.me put together this blog titled Ten Preventable Mistakes Realtor Blogger Make that delves into the inherent mistakes agents are prone to making when blogging. This is hard hitting, in your face, good advice.

Lee Odden put the Best and Worst Practices of Social Media Marketing together on TopRankBlog. Some of this is obvious, some not so but all presented in a way that is fresh and easy to understand. It includes best practices and worst practices. Bear in mind though, social media is still new and arguably experimental. But it helps to have guidelines. These are great ones.

Here’s something fun. 40 Sexy and Creative Typographic Logo Desgins. Given the typical real estate logo that often includes a company embedded inside a house, these examples serve as nothing other than eye candy or inspiration to go beyond typical.

Do you have a mobile version (dotmobi) of your Website? You might want to seriously consider doing so if you haven’t. ClickZ provides some basic comScore stats that indicate the exploding use of mobile search, which more than doubled from January 2008-January 2009.

According to NikNik, Lifestreaming is “an effective way to organize and display your collective thoughts, ideas, blog posts, and social connections that you share online.” Her post Lifestreaming Real Estate Web Content, explains what lifestreaming is and how real estate agents can strategically think about how and what to choose to share in their lifestream, as well as where they can make it available.

Twitter is growing exponentially. But… is there a retention problem? Quick burnout? It appears there might be. Check this post from Nielsen

Which commericals turn you on? Which ones turn you off? Marilyn from  Wav Group gives up this post on what some companies are doing to create really compelling ads.