During one of the sessions here at RE Bar Camp, an interesting point came up. There was a company here presenting named Zipvo — they do real estate video for agents. Their technology seems good; they seem like bright guys. The issue was, as I saw it, their incredibly flawed business model. They want advertisers … Read more
Just a quick little heads up before diving back into my real job. If you haven’t done so already, read Analytics Apples And Oranges: Switching Web Analytics Tools Without Getting Fired. Even if you’re an expert on web analytics, this brief little post lays out the issues so clearly and so cleanly that it helps confirm … Read more
If you’re not reading Matt Ferrara, the extremely intelligent, entertaining and hyper master of Matthew Ferrara & Company, then you’re missing out on some of the most fun readings that can be had about technology and real estate. He’s very insightful on a range of issues, as he works with some of the top companies … Read more
One of the reasons why I’ve been so busy of late is the sheer amount of work I took on at OnBoard. I hope to be able to share with everyone some of the fruits of that labor sometime soon. One major project is a redesign of the OnBoard website. Quite a few of the … Read more
The NAR-DOJ settlement is the gift that keeps on giving. To a blogger at least. Well, to a blogger that happens to be interested in such an obscure and unimportant topic. 🙂 The latest piece of information is throwing me from confusion directly into bizarro-land. NAR released a “Special Report” in which it announced that … Read more
The NAR-DOJ Settlement is news outside of our little RE.net corner of the blogosphere. One of the grand poobahs of the blogosphere, Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine, exults in a post entitled, “Take That, 6 Percenters!”. Why, he’s positively leaping with joy: The monopolistic hold big real estate agents have had on information — on access … Read more
I’m seriously up to my eyeballs in my dayjob (plus, I have to go to my second job of raising two little boys under the age of three after my dayjob — this second job is a LOT HARDER than my dayjob, I have to say…) but I had to emerge and say a word … Read more
Should the Big Brands in real estate start blogging? Joel Burslem over at FOREM thinks so: Even with its obvious bias, the blog is actually a fantastic resource for anyone interested in staying on top of the beer wars. Several years ago I worked for Molson, before it became Molson Coors, so the brewing industry … Read more
In a recent post, I complained about the dearth of data when it comes to talking about international real estate. Even though I was a bit cheeky, Simon Baker of REA Group actually posted a comment on that with some actual estadistica: For example, around 12% of the traffic to our Australian site (www.realestate.com.au) comes … Read more