It was a beautiful Portland summer morning. Quiet. Cool. Before the heat of the day really started cranking up the thermometer. Between juggling a fussy baby and and even fussier Labrador, I finally got to my local Starbucks for my morning coffee. In the calm of that moment, staring over my steaming cup, I pulled [...]
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Apple’s iPad means big changes ahead for real estate
I’ve had a week to mull over the announcement of the iPad and I’ve come to this conclusion. The iPad is 26 years coming. Those who blast the iPad as just a large iPhone, I think are missing the point. Fraser Speirs puts it best – they’re most likely in “Future Shock“. Let’s take a [...]
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1000watt Index: Your Guide to Real Estate Technology
5 years ago, when I started working in the real estate space, I found the landscape overwhelming. It was part of the reason I started FOREM in 2006. The blog was a way for me to jot down my thoughts and try and make sense of all the companies, vendors and technologies that were making a [...]
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There is no Web 2.0 bubble – and real estate technology ain’t what it used to be
Back in 2000, the online real estate category flamed out with the rest of the “dot-com” universe. It was five cold years before innovation flowered once more. That will never happen again. Yes, there are plenty of failed Web 2.0 companies, thousands of silly apps. Many more are on the way. But there is no [...]
Now this is news: A local association jumps on the market data opportunity
10k Research officially launched today. The company is a for-profit entity set up by the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors that slices, dices and visualizes MLS data into local market metrics suitable for consumer consumption. Their service is available to brokers, MLSs and associations across the country. I wrote about their hometown market effort a [...]
Tech news worth noting
Lots of food for thought here: Everyone’s talking about the “real-time” web these days, usually in relation to Twitter. It seems hard to relate this to real estate in a time when sporadic FTP dumps of MLS data are still all too common. But check this: Stweet, which launched this week, is a mashup of [...]
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…
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Nicole sat across the dinner table from us Friday night. She was not her usual positive self. Something happened. I decided to pry. Replaced A former actress, Nicole followed her true calling behind the camera. She did film. Music videos….
“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…
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