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Yahoo!Mash unveils Facebook clone

Yahoo! couldn't buy Facebook for a billion, so they did what a portal like Yahoo would do to compete with arch rival Google - create a second Facebook before Google does. Yahoo!Mash (invitation...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: social networking, yahoo mash, google, facebook, widgets
Two tips to get noticed on Google Maps and Yahoo! Local

At Inman News blog today, I discussed how local search has evolved into its own search product category because general search is inadequate in delivering local results. Although most consumers...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: mashups, cool web tools, google maps, yahoo local, hyperlocal
Manhattanization of San Francisco - part 2

San Francisco moves closer to building its "Grand Central Station of the West" with the jury recommendation to the city's Transbay Authority's board of directors:That team, led by...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: commercial real estate, san francisco bay area, san francisco, manhattanization, transbay terminal
Demystifying real estate blog readership

The readership of real estate blogs is mysterious. Last month, I noticed how the fine mortgage blog Blown Mortgage became the recipient of a huge traffic jump that corresponded with the credit...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogging, real estate blogs, housing bubble, active rain
Wall Street in Reactionary Mode

During these jumpy times, Wall Street has been reacting to news on a very literal level - if it's bad, sell. The Wall Street I know fit the adage "buy on rumor, sell on news"... investors had...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: economy
Tribute to Blogging

I'm only allowing myself one post per blue moon these days to display the psychic and social benefits of blogging (because most bloggers already get it). I was inspired to read how tech blogger ...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogging, blog fiesta, blown mortgage, web strategist, todd carpenter
Domino effect of Bad Economic News

There are days like this when all the news is bad... the continuing domino effect of the sliding housing markets > global credit crunch >foreclosures > consumer credit hit >...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: economy, fed, central banks, rate cut, housing market
Download this RSS Feed file

Loren asked me about it.... it's Mark Flavin's opml file that lists 500+ blog feeds, including most of the known blogs related to real estate, all recently filtered for dead feeds. A very...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: cool web tools, rss, feedreader, rss feed reader, google reader
"Bernanke put" in play

Bernanke put: Fed action to drop the Fed Funds rate on September 18 predicated on a worsening economic scenarioCNBC had been lauding Bernanke's comments to the Fed retreat this morning the most...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: economy, fed, bernanke, bernanke put, credit crunch
Home buyers are returning this fall - part 2

Ten days ago after the Fed calmed the markets' credit panic with a 1/2 point cut in the Discount rate, I postulated that home buyers will come back this fall when the Fed finally drops the Fed Funds...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: real estate economics, economy, fed, fed funds rate, discount rate