Archive for February, 2009

American real estate flea market

Joel over at FOREM sent this to us. Happy Friday!


Losing a race with progress

Feb 26th, 2009. The Rocky Mountain News closed its doors after 150 years of operation. Rather than link to the story, I thought this 45-slide photo gallery of Rocky employees as they gathered to hear the news might serve as…


Google adds images to Street View

Google announced today that it has integrated location-specific images from its Panoramio product with Street View. For online real estate, this means a more visual property search experience — something I wrote about last week — is coming fast. Buyers…


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Another chip falls off Move’s shoulder

I won’t try to read between the precious few lines of the press release announcing Lorna Borenstein’s departure as Move’s president. But I will offer this opinion: I hope the company takes this opportunity to leave behind once and for…


What’s blowing your mind these days?

I have become bored with video chats in the span of six months. When I bought a Macbook last July, the built-in webcam was a revelation. Now I rarely call Davison, who lives 250 miles from Oakland. Instead, I click…


Dude, where’s my brand?

– Brian Boero


Here lies Web 2.0

John Cable published a blog post this past October titled “The End of Web 2.0?” His end was marked by the drained IV bag of venture capital that no longer pumped its lifeblood into the veins of all the loosey-goosey…


The real estate office of the future is here

I envisioned this a while back. Intero Real Estate has brought it to life in the South Bay Area. Read about it in this post, “Rethink your real estate space” on FOREM. Here’s a glimpse of what it looks like….


Lost and found: Surviving real estate reality

You’re thinking, “Not another Top 10 things to do to survive in ’09 list!” Relax. That’s not my style. I’ll offer two simple ideas below. But first: Lost I am a big fan of the show, which follows the fate…


“Seeing” the future of online real estate

A couple weeks ago, Frontdoor.com released its City Guides product [Disclosure: Frontdoor.com is a 1000watt Consulting client]. This is worth noting for several reasons. The user experience is first rate; the balance between content and design, data and vibe is…