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The Small Intersecting World of Real Estate and Search Engines

At Search Engine Journal today, I've authored the second in a series of articles related to search engine and Web 2.0 strategies for real estate. I discuss why real estate agents are so reluctant...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: technology, seo, search engine marketing, search engine strategies, real estate marketing
Credit crunch - and now, the Consumer

The big stock drop today was expected... like the second wave of a tsunami - media reports the credit crunch finally hits the consumer. Today's bad news revolving around consumer panic reminds me...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: economy, credit crunch, consumer debt, credit card defaults, housing prices
The Fed and Puritanical Ethics

A week ago, the Wall Street Journal explained a Puritanical financial concept underlying the Fed's hesitancy to drop interest rates - no bailing out players who bend the rules: Wall Street has a...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: economy, fed, interest rates, mortgage rates, treasury yields
Virtual World meets Real World

Virtual world participation in massively multiuser strategy games like Warcraft and 3-D immersive communities like Second Life have reached critical mass - both over 9 million members each - and can...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 response • Last response by Phil101 (23) • 1 year ago
Tags: second life, new media, virtual worlds, warcraft, virtual real estate
Latest video ideas

Reggie @ MyTechOpinion says - incorporate your own real estate video channel on your blog or website using Kyte.tv: Your TV channel can include still photos, slide shows, video, music, voice and...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: new media, cool web tools, real estate video, video, realestateshows
Countrywide saved/ exploited by BofA today

Investors cheer BofA's $2 billion investment into Countrywide... an iconic bankruptcy threat dissipates. On CNBC, BofA is being lauded as providing proactive support to their industry, but look at...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: economy, cfc, bac, countrywide, bank of america
Facebook's killer app

It's the game playing... Inman News's Alice, bless her geogeeky heart, is addicted to geography - aficionado Facebook game Traveler IQ Challenge. Simply put, it quizzes you to find a city or...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: social networking, facebook, widgets, traveller iq challenge, online gaming
Embeddable Google MyMaps

Damon alerted me to it, but it was already on my GoogleMap monitoring radar. It's as easy to embed a Google Map into a web or blogsite, just like YouTube, and frankly I was surprised Google hadn't...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: cool web tools, mashups, google maps, mymaps, mashup
Market pressuring Fed to lowering rates even more

From Financial Times, Monday, August 20:The dramatic decline in the yield on short-term Treasury bills on Monday further strengthened market expectations that the Federal Reserve will soon...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: real estate economics, economy, fed, interest rates, mortgage rates
Home buyers, start your engines

No one seems to be saying this, so... The Fed's switch to addressing the credit markets and the cooling economy with its surprise 1/2 point cut in the discount rate Friday will help the real...

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