Archive for October, 2007
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By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Tuesday, October 30th, 2007, 11:50 am MST
Category: Wish List
This is more blue sky stuff, and I may be talking about a feature that’s already baked in the cake.
But: I was just there, and I want for Seller’s Net Sheets to be Savable.
Normally I have Cathleen do them in Excel, because it does a much better job. She’s sick, and I’m re-entering the whole [...]
“The revolution of the web involves us all individually and gives us an opportunity to participate in the revolution”
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, October 26th, 2007, 8:39 am MST
Category: General Information
Michael Wurzer at the FBS Blog:
The other day, I was cooking dinner and my kids were watching Hannah Montana or Suite Life or some other Disney show on the computer in our kitchen. I asked them why they were watching on the computer with a relatively small screen when they could watch it on the [...]
E-mailing, Printing and E-mailing Printing
By: Michael Wurzer,
flexmls.com
Posted: Thursday, October 25th, 2007, 4:27 am MST
Category: flexmls Web
I wrote a post over at FBS Blog today about some interface design questions that might interest readers of this blog, too.
Open Nationwide MLS, It’s Coming With or Without NAR
By: Robert Nield,
HomeSearchByMap.com
Posted: Sunday, October 21st, 2007, 9:26 pm MST
Category: General Information
Dale Stinton (NAR CEO) alluded that NAR is working on a combined MLS database during Inman’s Real Estate Tech Conferance earlier this year.
Real Estate Video by - Real Estate Blogger
Does NAR have what it takes to create a nationwide MLS? Sadly, probably not. The real estate industry has been playing catch-up with technology [...]
Two new contributors: Bob Bemis and Robert Nield
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Thursday, October 18th, 2007, 3:28 pm MST
Category: General Information
We’ve added a couple of new contributors.
Bob Bemis is the incoming CEO of ARMLS, the man with the target on his back.
Bob BemisARMLS CEOARMLS.com
Robert Nield is a polyglot systems programmer who made the transition to Realtor without losing the desire to reengineer the universe into rationality.
Robert NieldRealtor, ProgrammerHomeSearchByMap.com
Day of the Long Tail: The audience becomes the conversation
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Thursday, October 18th, 2007, 8:11 am MST
Category: General Information
Not to overstimulate the YouTube reflex, but these are excellent representations of the Web 2.0 paradigm shift:
This is the best of them all, in my opinion, because it illustrates the futility of an “us vs. them” strategy:
What we’re seeing is the scaling up of the Athenian Agora or the Roman Forum, a world in which [...]
Preview of flexmls Web
By: Michael Wurzer,
flexmls.com
Posted: Wednesday, October 17th, 2007, 4:31 pm MST
Category: flexmls Web
Here is a link to a video I made previewing some of the functionality in the flexmls Web system. The video is just over a half hour long and focuses on functionality coming available in our fall release due November 1. The video definitely could be clearer but, as is usual, I [...]
Information R/evolution: From finding information to information that finds us
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Monday, October 15th, 2007, 10:50 pm MST
Category: General Information
More from Professor Wesch, this time leading us gently toward the semantic web:
Wish List: Give the geeks an API
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, October 12th, 2007, 2:50 pm MST
Category: Wish List
Nota bene: In generating wish list items, I am not implying that they’re not already implemented in flexmls, nor am I being a crybaby. I don’t know the flexmls feature set at all, so it could be that I’m asking for things that are already in place, or are implemented in a functionally-equivalent manner. And, [...]
Wish List: Tickle me, MLS, would make a sweet gift
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Thursday, October 11th, 2007, 2:26 pm MST
Category: Wish List
This post is purely a wish list item, something that I think could be cool to have. I won’t die without it. (Witness me already without it, already not dying.) But it would a sweet little boon, I think.
Back story: A couple of days ago, I had a call from a sweet lady who would [...]
Can our son get to a first-class high school from our new home on a city bus with no transfers?
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Thursday, October 11th, 2007, 12:20 pm MST
Category: General Information
Joel Burslem at The Future of Real Estate Marketing has a post today on a new school-reporting feature at Estately.com.
Estately is the most ambitious of the consumer-focused map-based search portals, so it is very worth watching. Actually, it would be a good thing if Estately’s Galen Ward were participating here, as well.
We like to say [...]
How will flexmls handle your listing? a balancing act for sure - Podcast part two of two.
By: Steven Groves,
StevenGroves.com
Posted: Tuesday, October 9th, 2007, 10:30 am MST
Category: Podcasts
Part 2 of 2 of a podcast interview with Michael Wurzer / CEO of FBS Data Services.
Why we built this weblog, and why it’s going to work: Understanding weblogging as the Web 2.0 software paradigm best suited to documenting our transition to flexmls
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Tuesday, October 9th, 2007, 5:02 am MST
Category: General Information
The impetus for building this weblog came from the Phoenix real estate weblogging community — which is to say the owners of the weblogs you see listed in the blogroll on the sidebar. I was the first to suggest it, but that was an accident of timing. The idea of addressing a problem like this [...]
New contributor: David Newcombe
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Monday, October 8th, 2007, 11:19 pm MST
Category: General Information
We just added a new contributor, David Newcombe:
David NewcombeRealtor, Eco BrokerMGUrban.com
David is the chair of the Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors MLS committee. He serves on the ARMLS MLS committee and was part of the task force that chose FBS Systems as our new MLS provider.
Mapping Technology Preview
By: Jonathan Dalton,
DaltonsAZHomes.com
Posted: Monday, October 8th, 2007, 8:58 pm MST
Category: General Information
About 10 days I received a call from one of the many Canadians who seem to be visiting my blog these days. Looking for a townhouse, want to escape the snow, etc. And, by the way, I work for a company that develops mapping applications for various MLS systems in the United States.
Interesting stuff, less [...]
