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
Posts Tagged ‘Web 2.0’
Things you may have missed while contemplating the RPR
By Brian Boero | November 13th, 2009
Tags: iPhone, New business models, Redfin, Web 2.0, Zillow | Categories: Technology 7 Comments
Tags: iPhone, New business models, Redfin, Web 2.0, Zillow | Categories: Technology 7 Comments
How to stay out of social media Bizarro World
First, take a hit off this (start at 1:50):
Then – quickly – absorb about thirty seconds of this:
Now imagine that it is Andy Williams and Steve Austin that are fighting, on a pastel-hued sound stage, with Sasquatch prancing about in a skirt.
That, my friends, is the sort of bizarro world you must conjure to effectively [...]
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Proposed roads to social media freedom
By Marc Davison | July 10th, 2009
Tags: Change, Consumers, Customer service, The Nines, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Categories: Uncategorized 4 Comments
Tags: Change, Consumers, Customer service, The Nines, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Categories: Uncategorized 4 Comments
The world as it could be made
In his book Proposed Roads to Freedom, social philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote:
“In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they [...]
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Google may kill Microsoft, but it won’t kill real estate
You’ve probably read the posts about Google’s move to make searching real estate via Google Maps slightly less obscure.
This morning you read about the announcement of Chrome OS, which looks to many like the stone that just might hit Microsoft right between the eyes.
These two announcements underscore something I have long believed about Google: That [...]
Hunch: The intelligence of a million clicks
Hunch, a website that claims it “Helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it” emerged from private beta this week.
Breaking through the haze of social media confusion
By Marc Davison | June 6th, 2009
Tags: Agents, Branding, Change, Social Networks, Web 2.0, Yelp | Categories: Brokerage 16 Comments
Tags: Agents, Branding, Change, Social Networks, Web 2.0, Yelp | Categories: Brokerage 16 Comments
Since I don’t live in the Bay Area – where I hear posting Yelp reviews like this is prevalent – I snapped this photo prior to entering Damon and Pythias in Calabasas on my way home from a full week of meetings with brokers.
It got me thinking.
Breaking through the haze of social media confusion
As part [...]
Here lies Web 2.0
By Marc Davison | February 23rd, 2009
Tags: Media, Microblogging, Social Networks, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Categories: Uncategorized 9 Comments
Tags: Media, Microblogging, Social Networks, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Categories: Uncategorized 9 Comments
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…
Good news: Real estate-relevant API’s keep coming
By Brian Boero | January 29th, 2009
Tags: real estate technology, User experience, Web 2.0 | Categories: Technology 7 Comments
Tags: real estate technology, User experience, Web 2.0 | Categories: Technology 7 Comments
Mashable reported today that HopStop, a site that tells users how to get from Point A to Point B using mass transit, has released an API. This adds to a slowly growing list of free real estate or real estate-relevant…
Google’s OpenSocial and the future of the MLS
By Brian Boero | December 29th, 2008
Tags: MLS, New business models, Social Networks, Web 2.0 | Categories: Uncategorized 7 Comments
Tags: MLS, New business models, Social Networks, Web 2.0 | Categories: Uncategorized 7 Comments
Brian published this post back on November 6th, 2007. The observations he made then about the social implications and viability of the MLS resonate today — Marc I’ve been chewing on the idea of Google’s OpenSocial for the past few…
Let’s call it Zulia
By Brian Boero | December 27th, 2008
Tags: Agents, Consumers, Web 2.0, Zillow | Categories: Marketing 15 Comments
Tags: Agents, Consumers, Web 2.0, Zillow | Categories: Marketing 15 Comments
Brian wrote this toward the very end of December 2007. I remember both of us flying down to Los Angeles (each from different destinations), meeting at the airport and grabbing a cab to meet with a client. We were throwing…
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