Mon 30 Mar 2009
Click here to view the embedded video. Coldwell Banker Canada launched a new real estate application customized for Microsoft’s Surface technology today. Coldwell Banker leveraged the unique interface and capabilities of Microsoft Surface to develop a home search application that will provide a new interactive and intuitive way to explore real estate listings and neighbourhoods
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Coldwell Banker Canada Rises to the Surface
Fri 27 Mar 2009
Tue 24 Mar 2009
We haven’t heard much from Roost, the IDX driven search portal, as of late. Last we heard of them they had redesigned their search pages to deal with a growing overabundance of search filters (see Roost Redesigns Search Results )
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Roost Changes Up Their Game
Fri 20 Mar 2009
Every Friday, I will be sharing a roundup of choice links to stories/posts that have caught my eye each week. Here’s a few from the last couple of days. Sara Bonert - 10 Ways Real Estate Professionals Can Use Zillow v2.0 (some great tools here from Zillow) 4realz.net - 4 Levels of Social Media Connections (great series by Dustin on new FB pages) The Real Estate Tomato - The Death of a Real Estate Blog.
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FOREM Quick Reads 03.20.09
Thu 19 Mar 2009
I know that some companies strive very hard to be creative with their advertising.
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Down Market Advertising Fail
Mon 16 Mar 2009
A guest perspective from Ashfaq Munshi, co-founder and CEO of Terabitz. In an earlier incarnation, soon after I graduated, I was a young and eager executive at Oracle viewing life through a much different lens than I do now.
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What do you stand for?
Thu 12 Mar 2009
Rehava, a small brokerage based in South Carolina, (featured in 2008 in an article on Inman News ) recently got into a dustup with RE/Max, the national franchisor, over its logo. Last week, RE/Max challenged Rehava’s trademark filing, and claimed the brand was too similar to its own. In an article in the Charleston Post and Courier , RE/Max’s legal counsel Adam Scoville explained the rationale this way: First of all, both names start with “r” and have logos with accent lines near the letter “e,” he said.”It goes beyond that,” Scoville added.
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RE/Max loses logo fight with Rehava
Tue 10 Mar 2009
I’m travelling all this week so posting will be light, but seeing that the video I shared last week has generated so much buzz (see The Future of Virtual Tours? ), I couldn’t help but share this video, which got a standing ovation at the most recent TED conference.
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Find Your Sixth Sense
Fri 6 Mar 2009
A bit of fun today. This visually stunning short film tells the story of a man who builds a virtual world for the woman he loves using a tool that looks to be a mashup of Google Sketchup and the interface seen in Minority Report (also see Navigating a Virtual World ). But with a little imagination it could easily be a fantastic vision of the future of a real “virtual” property tour. Click here to view the embedded video.
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The Future of Virtual Tours?
