Archive for the ‘Real Estate Technology’ Category
Friday, February 5th, 2010
I just ran across this new iPhone application that acts as a virtual assistant. Could there be some opportunity in the rental space for this type of device?Siri - The Personal Assistant in your Phone from Tom Gruber on Vimeo.
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Google wants to offer street view for every street in the World. They are one step closer by offering street view in Hawaii. Below are the top 8 Hawaiian beaches with Street View:Waikiki Beach - Oahu - The Duke Kahanamoku Statue welcomes you to one of the most popular beaches in ...
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
We ran across a blog resource called Software Advice. One article in particular stood out, "Six Things Property Management Software Makes Easy." In it, Chris Thorman narrows down 6 challenges property managers face with their existing business and offers some software solutions to help solve these problems. Managing Leads to New Tenants Connecting with ...
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Forget about the Apple Tablet, take a look at this Microsoft Courier. It is in the late beta stage and should hit the market soon.This is going to change the way we organize and interact. Imagine the possibilities for Realtors.[youtube]DXjsqsmLSMg[/youtube]
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
According to the Wallstreet Journal, LendingTree is suing Mortech, which provides a loan technology service that LendingTree uses, for breaching their confidentiality agreement. A few months back, Google began testing a Merchant search service in the UK that compares lenders and LendingTree is concerned that trade secrets may have been exposed.Here arethe FAqs for the ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
We have written how the iPhone and mobile applications will change the way we find and search for real estate. We wanted to show how Steve Job is able to develop such great products. Below are the 10 commandments from the fake Steve Jobs.
This is hilarious:
10 Commandments of Fake Steve ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
If you think Twitter, (the communication platform for nerds), is simply a place to write about "what you are doing right now", you are missing the proverbial boat.
NikNik of MyTechOpinion, wrote 22 reasons to use Twitter for business and Pleasure:
FOR BUSINESS
Gain exposure for my blogs… and gain potential readers
Build my ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
There are millions of widgets being designed by programmers and added to WidgetBox, FaceBook, and Google.
What are the top real estate widgets?
Here is what we found:
For Sale Properties
Trulia Widgets:
Home Appraisal
Zillow Widgets:
eppraisal Widgets:
Rentals and Rental Rates
rentBits Widgets:
Zilpy Widgets:
Classifieds
vFlyer widgets:
Real Estate Investing
BiggerPockets Widgets:
Real Estate Research
AlosResearch Widgets:
Mapping
RentVine Widgets:
Real Estate News
MSNBC Real Estate Widget:
Topix ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
In the future, I don't see real estate search as an input and receive data experience. I see it as an interactive, real time data, demographic and psychographic virtual experience.
What do I mean by this?
I wrote awhile back about how virtual tour technology could evolve over time. We as users, ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
The Google operating system for phones (Android) will change the way we search for real estate. Developers are already building some incredible applications for Android and below is one for street view on your phone.
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Google announced the top 50 applications for Android and there are some amazing things being built. ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
ScanLife, an innovative company that takes virtually any camera phone and turns it into a scanner, has great potential for changing the way we shop for rentals and for sale properties. Currently, you can download the scanlife software on your phone, and the you can take pictures of anything that ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
I just wrote about Google Health on my health blog, and I see some similarities with the organization of our own health documents and the organization of our own real estate documents.
For Google Health, Google wants to:
Organize your health information all in one place
Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
We wanted to aggregate a list of the top 66 real estate services that we think every Real Estate Agent, Property Manager and Investor should know about. Why 66. We don't know but this list will continue to get larger with your help.
Our Methodology - We used resources from the ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Last month Google said that the iPhone receives 50 times more searches the any other handset in the world.
“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Terabitz, a real estate site that allows users to customize their real estate search experience, and who received $10 million in funding from Tudor Capital fell off the edge of the internet.
Even though the homepage allows buyers and renters to search and customize properties, I think Terabitz is focusing their ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
I ran across this site from the ApartmentMarketing blog and wanted to share with our readers.
WalkScore.com is a site that allows users to see local restaurants, banks, parks, schools, fitness centers, etc within waking distance from a specific address.
Their patent-pending system calculates the walkability of an address based on:
The distance ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Scribd.com, a start-up in Silicon Valley is making finding, uploading and viewing documents online extremely easy. They recently raised close to $5 million from Red Point Ventures and according to compete.com has over 2 million uniques per month.
Scribd makes it easy to search for real estate documents like rental applications ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I was bored and wanted to see how many patents have been issued related to Apartments. There are 2625 patents that have "apartment" within their patent text. Some of my favorites:
Method for Preparing Leasing Arrangements:
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for presenting leasing arrangements for ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
In 2006, AOL released information of over 20 million search queries collected from 650,000 users over a 3 month period. AOL released the information and stated, "The goal of this collection is to provide real query log data that is based on real users. It could be used for personalization, ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Did you know that if you were to post your real estate property on the top 10 real estate sites you would only be reaching 24.1% of the market?*
According to Hitwise.com, the top 10 real estate sites combined reach 24.1% of the market. These are sites like Realtor.com, Move.com, Zillow.com, ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Within 5 years, your television will be your access to the web. You will be able to do amazing things with your television including controlling the way you interact with advertising.
Google has recently signed a deal with the world's largest consumer electronics maker to develop plasma televisions. They aim to ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Here comes another bubble is a hilarious song about the tech bubble that no one within the bubble thinks we are in. One of my favorite lyrics are:
Blue Shirts, Khaki Pants, looking like a line of ants
If you are part of a start-up or tech company you know what this ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
I am not very good at predicting the future and don't have access to the Wisdom of Crowds data, but here is an attempt to predict the future of the real estate industry for 2008.
The real estate web2.0 lingo will die and someone will try to make up new lingo ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
I just purchased the Kindle from Amazon.com and I am extremely impressed. The look and feel is exactly like holding and reading a small paperback book. I have over 50 different real estate books and decided to buy the Kindle to hold all of them, plus 150 more.
They use wireless ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Do you have GPS on your phone? A majority of the cell phones do not have GPS. This has limited the location based technologies and user experience. Google has once again solved this problem by offering location based search based on the location of the phone. This could have grand ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
AT&T has just purchased Ingenio for an undisclosed amount.
Property Managers are always looking for new business. One way to get new clients is to advertise on local yellow page sites where owners are actively searching for property managers. The problem with most yellow page sites is you pay a fixed ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
FatDoor, a company we have written about before, has hired Jennifer Dulski as CEO. Dulski was previously at Yahoo. Fatdoor has raised $5.5 million in funding and hopes to revolutionize the way neighbors interact online.
How could this be applied to rentals? Imagine if you are moving to a new location, ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Want to earn $10 million? Google is giving this away to programmers who build the best applications that run on the Google Mobile platform. This is a perfect platform for real estate.
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
This happens to go with any new start-up that tries to increase market share without having a strong foundation. By the way there are many more reasons why most companies fail but here are 10 of them.
Trying to do everything for everyone
Not having a clear monetization strategy
Business model is similar ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
A new start-up in stealth mode called Roost is on "a mission to fundamentally change how customers find & move into their next home."
This could be very exciting as the current moving lead generation model is broken. More to come..........
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