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On Wednesday, January 27, Apple will likely unveil the company’s long-rumored tablet device. Apple sent out invitations to selected media outlets yesterday morning, asking people to “join us for an invitation-only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on January 27 at 10:00 a.m

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What would the Apple Tablet mean for Realtors?

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A couple of years ago I postulated that video would eventually kill the virtual tour (see  Inman Connect Highlights Real Estate 2.0 ) – and, for the most part, that seems to have happened. The seemingly ubiquitous (at the time) 360 spin-and-puke photo tour has largely been replaced these days by Ken Burns-like slide shows and full motion video walkthroughs.

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Virtual Tours and Video Go Another Round

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Greetings FOREM readers! I am really excited to be a featured writer on FOREM’s blog. I have been a reader and admirer of this blog for some time and am thrilled with the opportunity to contribute!  It is an honor to write along side Joel Burslem. I am equally as excited about my new position as marketing manager with Inman News

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Top 3 Latest & Greatest Products from Google

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New York-based broker Corcoran Group has launched a new iPhone application to help real estate consumers connect with properties. The app is very well executed and joins StreetEasy and Redfin as among my favorite real estate apps.

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Corcoran Launches New iPhone App… Gets Arty

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Terabitz has been very quiet lately . A refresher for those of you might not have heard of the company – they launched in 2007 to much fanfare (see Terabitz Gives You Loads of Data ) — as a sort of “Netvibes for real estate” — but the company made hard tack to starboard in the years since and have reinvented themselves as a platform for real estate brokerages.

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Terabitz Launches New Web Platform for Brokers

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PhotoSketch is a mind-blowing project from a group of computer science students in China, who have created software that will take your hand drawn sketch, search the web for corresponding images and then stitch them all together into a brand new composite image. A video demonstration from their paper shows the software in action

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No Photoshop Skills Required

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French company MeilleurAgents.com (”best agents”) has released a mobile Android application that displays the value of every single building in Paris (value is displayed in price per square meter).

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Augmented Reality Real Estate Valuations

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Apture is one of the coolest plugins I’ve stumbled across in a long while. It allows you to instantly add rich, dimensional media to your blog or website by integrating text, images, video, maps, music and much more from over 50 sources; including Wikipedia, Flickr, NY Times, YouTube, Twitter and many others. In the data rich environment of the Web that we now all live in, for many of us the big challenge is finding a way to present all the great new content we have at our fingertips on a web site.

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Apture Lets You Create Rich Information Widgets

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Says CEO Glenn Kelman, via Techcrunch …the run rate is around $15 million. 2007 revenues were $5 million, 2006 revenues were $1 million. Congrats to all the folks at Redfin.

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Redfin Profitable

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In my post New Firefox Brings Location to the Browser , I asked the following question around the new browser’s location awareness capability. So the race is on - which will be the first site to implement this feature

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Google Maps Wins!

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