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Real Estate Tech News

REBarCamp is very FooBaz

Greetings from REBarCamp 2008, the first of hopefully many such meetings of open collaboration. CRT is one of the sponsors and glad to be here.  If you’re not familiar with a BarCamp, this wikipedia entry will probably help there. Matt Lavallee from MLSPIN and I will host a small talk on “RESO, RETS, & Syndication [...] More >>>

I Hate You More Then Ever XML

Okay, so I don’t actually hate XML. But recently I have been working on writing a syndication tool and I am beginning to agree with a lot of people that question the use of XML for simple data exchange. XML was originally supposed to be both machine and human readable, and in the case of using [...] More >>>

Is the iPhone 3G worth the upgrade?

We’ll have to wait and see…. Today I wanted to go get an iPhone 3G and do a first day impression report if the speed was the upgrade and being shackled to AT&T for another 2 years.  Sadly, that won’t be happening today due to long lines and activation problems. I personally underestimated the demand and I [...] More >>>

RETS for Drupal!

Arthur Richards has written a Drupal plugin for RETS! This allows you to create a website that has listing information taken directly from the MLS. You can find it with other Drupal plug-ins. Here is a clip of what Arthur posted on the VieleRETS mailing list about the plug-in: I could use a lot of [...] More >>>

2008 CRT Technology Survey

The 2008 CRT Technology Survey is here and ready to be taken by REALTORS®.  Take the survey, and pass it on to other REALTORS® if you wish.  It will remain open through July 15, 2008.  One lucky respondent will be selected to win an iPod Touch. This survey is typically sent out earlier in the year, but [...] More >>>

Have you ridden the CREST?

Despite having a name very similar to CRT’s, the Center for Real Estate and Social Technologies (CREST) aims to be “the definitive research and education resource for social technologies in the real estate business, conducting surveys and other projects to generate benchmarks and best practices that REALTORS® can employ to improve their social networking, blogging, [...] More >>>

WASSUP WIT DAT DOJ?

Or in other words - Some clarification on the recent NAR/DOJ settlement….. There has recently been various blogs, comments and observations that have created some uncertainty regarding the requirements and obligations imposed on MLSs and brokers who operate websites under the recently announced settlement of the lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against NAR [...] More >>>

REALTOR® Confidential: Episode 3 Coming Soon

REALTOR® Confidential: Episode 3 is in the final editing process. In this episode we will talk with IT professionals and find out what they think about technology plus get some helpful tips. Keep an eye on the REALTOR® Confidential blog for the next installment and remember to send us your tech tips. Video, audio and [...] More >>>

Fun with Visualization

In my reading this morning, Chicagoist had a post which alerted me to Wordle.  We’ve been using word clouds in some of the flyers we’ve been making lately.  (And by we, I mean Ana and her excellent work.) Wordle is a quick and effortless way to make clouds that you are then free to [...] More >>>

Chat with me now!!

So, I stumbled across the Google Chat Badge. It’ll let any user to your site, blog, etc chat with you if you are online. Best part is, they don’t need to have a Google Chat account. Could come in handy for visitors checking out a listing, see you online and ask a [...] More >>>

Traffic Concerns

I love when I stumble across something that completely changes my perspective on things. Its even better, when this perspective starts to go against some traditional thought processes. This time, it is web traffic - or where people are coming from to your site/listing. My REALTOR (yes my place is on the market) [...] More >>>

Save The Data

On Last weeks episode I spoke about an easy way to get a little better data piece of mind. This of course was after a horrible, data laziness accident. My accident wasn’t catastrophic, it was some pictures of the my dog. But they were the only pictures, and of course [...] More >>>

How not to store data: a lesson

We all get lazy. Right? [Well maybe not Keith]. Storing files locally on our desktop or laptop. Only maintaining one copy of them. Hoping that nothing happens to the drive, or the machine gets stolen. Right? Are you with me so far? Well, for a while I was [...] More >>>

REALTOR® Confidential Episode 2 is Live

Click on the image to take you to the REALTOR® Confidential Website Watch episode 2 and find out how REALTOR® Edwin Resuello uses technology in his business. More >>>

Is it a sine?

A few years back, I watched MLSNI turn off their consumer facing website because members took the stance that this was reducing broker/agent centric website exposure. Ironically, seemingly overnight, this almost perfectly coincided with the flash flood of Syndication Portals (Trulia, Zillow, GoogleBase, etc). At first, the industry was very apprehensive to giving their [...] More >>>

The march of Progress

Today, Mark and I were walking back from the Hilton after sitting in and listening to the Business Issues Committee meeting here at the midyear meetings. (Hopefully more on that soon from an expert!) In any case, we passed a bus stop bench and saw a bunch of books sitting on it and we couldn’t [...] More >>>

SAAR Technology Symposium Blogging Panel Video Posted

Previously on CRT’s blog, we talked about my trip to AZ…. I got an e-mail from Dru Bloomfield today saying the video from our panel on blogging is up on the SAAR site. You can watch it here on SAAR’s site, but be warned, it clocks in at about an hour and a half. On a [...] More >>>

Midyear Bloggers’ Lounge and HotSpot reminder

The Bloggers’ Lounge and WiFi HotSpot at NAR’s 2008 Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo officially open today. Technically, the HotSpot was operating yesterday, but it wasn’t officially open. It’ll be open 24/7 until the end of the show. The Bloggers’ Lounge is open from 10am to 6pm today through Friday. WiFi Flyer Bloggers’ Lounge [...] More >>>

We Cannot Allow Ourselves To Have a Syndication Tool Gap!

All the RETS buzz these days seems to be about the new RESO Syndication standard. It promises to make the lives of syndicators (Google, Zillow, Yahoo, Trulia etc), aggregators (ThreeWide, Point2), brokers and even MLSs easier.  With a common data format to use, the workload of everyone will go down significantly.  But right now there [...] More >>>

The Law of Unintended Consequences

Every once in awhile you get bit by the Law of Unintended Consequences. What is this law you ask? To quote wikipedia: The Law of Unintended Consequences states that any action will produce some unintended consequences… This maxim is not a scientific law; it is more in line with Murphy’s law as a warning against [...] More >>>