This is from a conversation I had at Inman SF ‘2008. Perhaps conversation is too dignified a term for what was actually going on at the time, since all of the participants were three sheets into the wind by that point in the night. Let’s call it more like… inspired spouting of words between people … Read more
Breaking news from Inman Blogger Connect: Trulia has announced that it is launching a blog platform. I don’t have a link, because this was on a piece of paper, but there will be an official announcement later. I actually had a chance to speak with Vicky Gkiza, Sr. Product Manager for Community, at Trulia and… … Read more
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
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
Marc Davison recently issued what I consider to be an important challenge, sort of tucked away into the dictum of his post called “Exodus from the bondage of 1.0 tradition“: Like catcalls from construction workers to pedestrians, false bravado, come-ons and innuendo continue to adorn broker websites. They stand as a gripping example of how … Read more
A reader of Dustin’s sent him an email that both were kind enough to allow to be published at 4realz. The reader, a member of a MLS committee, raises some very interesting and very important questions provoked by the discussion on Cluetrain marketing in real estate between Dustin and myself. Read the whole thing. This … Read more
Ben Martin at Agent Genius(an excellent site that I have now added to my RSS reader) has posted a trenchant response to my earlier post on proof in Web 2.0 type of activities. He takes issue, it seems, with a few things, confessing himself further and further befuddled by the dialogue. First, measuring ROI from … Read more
I think Pat Kitano at TransparentRE is one of those guys who has brilliant and useful insights to anyone interested in exploring what Real Estate 2.0 might look like. And despite disagreeing with him on a specific thing here or there in the past, I continue to think his blog is valuable and his insights … Read more
In part one of this series, exploring the implications of the Cluetrain Manifesto on the real estate industry, I focused on the basic concept behind the Cluetrain: that markets are conversations, and in the Internet age, authenticity and honesty is absolutely indispensable. In this part, I’d like to muse on what the value of expertise … Read more