What’s the Time? Time to Get Real

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Camilla Sullivan.

Taking your eyes off the market (trends, drivers, needs) is a great way for a company to lose a position of leadership, alienate customers and become irrelevant. When the environment you are operating in changes, you need to change in order to survive in the new conditions.  Just ask any real estate professional and they [...]

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Friday Blog Scan: Things we liked from the week that was

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Jason Steele.

It’s amazing how many real estate websites are not cross-browser compatible, meaning they do not work well in recent versions of all major browsers. Browsers other than Internet Explorer account for about 25% of the market now, so this us just plain unacceptable. So we were delighted with James Shiner’s post over at GeekEstate, which [...]

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Buzz Worthy Take Aways From NAR

Posted on 12. Nov, 2008 by Wendy Forsythe.

Each year that I attend the National Association of REALTORS® conference, I come away with some new buzz.  The conference is a great way to tune into buzz-worthy people, topics and catch phrases.
Here are my top 5 buzz-worthy take aways from this year’s conference.
Number 5:  www.tinyurl.com will convert long urls into tiny ones. Great for [...]

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3D Phototours for the Rest of Us

Posted on 15. Sep, 2008 by Jason Steele.

The folks from Microsoft were in the office last week and during the course of their presentation they mentioned a new project from Microsoft Live Labs called Photosynth.

First of all, “Microsoft Live Labs?” I guess they have stopped trying to differentiate themselves from Google anymore. The presenter extolled the virtues of the technology and claimed [...]

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