Taken at NAR 2007 in Vegas
Archive for November, 2007
After the harvest, a time to give thanks
A turkey with stuffing. Cranberry sauce. A vegetable casserole. Wine. Old friends. Family. As social structures dissolve, as family members spread further and further away from each other, as our lives get more chaotic, we hunger for the simple traditions…
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Time for a new pair of shoes
In the 1960’s Converse owned 95% of the sneaker market. The Chuck Taylor, its crown jewel, was the official shoe of the NBA. Back then, a sneaker was once just a foot covering. A simple rubber sole. No arch. Canvas…
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Clarity and confusion in online real estate
Two important stories hit Inman News yesterday: “Realogy plans national IDX web-search platform” and “Consumer access in the cards for NAR’s real estate ‘Gateway’” Right here, in two stories posted within hours of each other, we see the conflicted state…
The real estate blame game
Media, media bo bedia, Bonana fanna fo fedia, Fee fi mo media – media! Come on everybody, let’s play the blame game “The Media’s” effect on real estate was the conversation that rose most audibly from the panel sessions, lobby…
Online real estate lead generation: 1994 — 2007
Tampa, Florida — November 27, 2007 — The National Association of Tired Ideas today issued a brief statement noting the death of online real estate Lead Generation. Lead Generation – which emerged on the scene scarcely ten years ago -…
Real estate roulette
Does this sound familiar? You meet with a seller. They believe their home is worth X. You know it’s worth Y. But you figure, hey, why complicate matters? The customer is always right. So you take the listing. And figure…
Leaving NAR
My Southwest 737 lifted above the electric circus of Las Vegas. My head ached. My voice was gone. I wheezed from two days’ worth of secondhand smoke. It was 11:00 p.m. on Thursday night, and my capacity for analysis was…
fatdoor gets serious
Neighborhood social site fatdoor announced $5.5 million in funding and a new CEO (from Yahoo!) earlier this week. The company has been in private beta for some time. I am glad for them. I have raised questions here about the…
Zillow, Android, iPhone, SMS and the liquid real estate experience
The walls that stand between media, devices, publishers, advertisers and consumers are being wrecked, both inside and outside the online real estate category. This has been going on for some time now. A restless generation has turned the phone into…
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