What’s outside the window?
I'll be adding these photos to my listings soon - what's outside the window of the house, what the street looks like, what's to the left and right ... not just because a client mentioned it to me the other day, but also because Google…
Do you Google people you meet?
I do. Ted Demopoulus does. It's simple business intelligence. - If I'm in a meeting with my laptop open and my phone rings with number I do not recognize, I'll quickly Google the number (it's amazing how many Realtors' cell phone numbers aren't found via…
What will MLS data standards do for the consumers?
Hopefully, all of our lives - buyers, sellers, Realtors - will become more efficient. With the recent talk of how forthcoming data standards are going to make property data sharing more efficient and thus better for consumers and Realtors, here is one of my requests…
Turn out the lights tonight
Google's doing it, so it must be ok. Turn off your lights at 8pm EDT - It's symbolic and probably won't really save much energy, but right now, every nickel counts (and it's probably not too bad for the environment). Step outside, look at the…
My blog as a Magic 8 ball
This search brought a visitor from Miami today - likelihood my house will sell. Good luck. (I'm #3) This one too - from a Canadian, no less! the demise of realtors (I'm #5) And here - getting out of purchase and sales agreement with builder…
Google down?
Yesterday blogspot was down. Now Google and Google Apps.?! Shame I run my jduncanrealestate.com email through them. Update: They're back up. What's the backup strategy if Google goes away? They've already lied about "unlimited storage". Does Yahoo offer a similar solution? They offer "unlimited storage".
A Google map for every blog
Coming next week. Update 8/22/07: And they're here. Transparent and Ubertor discuss.
Where is your traffic coming from?
The focus of this blog has always been first on the Charlottesville-area real estate consumer and second on the fellow real estate professionals. Last year I ran a poll that affirmed these goals - 56% of all voters are either “Curious Consumer” or “Active Buyer…
I’m glad my site comes up #1 for this
positive real estate news in virginia 2007 How 'bout that?
Google 411 gets better
1-800-GOOG-411 has saved me a few times, and if I didn't have a GPS in my car, I would find this even more useful - Today, your GOOG-411 experience just got better: during your call to GOOG-411, just say "map it", and you'll get a…