God, I love that acronym. “Reaper.” There’s so much fun to be had there. Anyway, a few non-RPR items popped up in the past six days that are worth noting. Here’s what caught my eye: Redfin raises another $10 million
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Estately announces profitability, raises interesting questions
Galen Ward, co-founder and CEO of Estately, just emailed me to say his company had a profitable third quarter. We’ll see where this heads, but it’s clear the company is doing enough business to run a great Website and support a small staff. I am glad they’re making a go of it. Galen offers details [...]
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Food for thought from the past week
10:30 a.m. on Wednesday and I have just now returned my inbox and reader to some sense of order after the Inman conference last week. Here are some things I came across in that process that got me thinking: Yellowbird, a start-up based in the Netherlands, launched something that approximates Google Street View done with [...]
Repositioning for the future
First published on Inman News 7.1.2009 Read Part 1 here A brokerage model of the future is coming. Some might suggest they’re already here. One might be stealing your client right now. In the blink of an eye Hawaii Life Real Estate Services launched and became the No. 1 real estate site in Kauai. Soon [...]
New brokerage model: from bust to boom
First published on Inman News – June 30, 2009 The corridors of real estate echo with the anxious cacophony of futuristic business model chatter. Environmental branding, virtual space, marketing, social media and stemming the ooze of profitability caused by the open gash of lopsided splits are now on the gurney as the present model heads [...]
Real Estate’s White Rabbit
What do Betty Crocker, Kraft Foods, Monopoly and Target not have in common with real estate brands? They’ve created iPhone apps. These long-standing brands have plunged down the rabbit hole and into a wonderland where they have found a newer, cheaper, smarter way to connect and serve a generation of King and Queen consumers – [...]
Notable this week
Yahoo! launched a desktop Twitter monitoring app using Adobe Air. Nothing groundbreaking here. But it does raise a question: When will someone in online real estate develop an Air app for monitoring listings? Sure, mobile is important, but most of us still plant our butts in front of a computer for most of the day. [...]
Two new online real estate companies that snuck by me
Crazy busy this week. Not much time for blogging (or eating, or showering…). But real quick: Here are a couple interesting online real estate sites that launched recently that I somehow missed despite a fair amount of media coverage outside…
Lots of big news yesterday
It’s been an eventful 36 hours in the world of technology and real estate. In case you missed it: Google launched Latitude, a service that lets users identify their location, and that of their friends, on a mobile phone. We’ve…
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