Tales from the Techside

Hello all. Wanted to apologize for my absence. I am at the Clareity conference in Az for a much needed workation.
Two quick notes before I get back to the pool, er, I mean conference.
Our friends over at FBS won the best blog award here…well deserved.
And, ironically, REALTOR® blogging in general won the award for […]

So I am setting up adsense for the first time. Adsense is google’s program to allow folks with websites to embed ads on the page and get paid for clicks from that page. The content of the page typically delivers ad results from a particular category, in this case presumably real estate.
I am […]

Since he will almost certainly not publish my follow up comment to his intro post, I will publish it here.
First of all, proclaiming your blog as great doesn’t make it so. Secondly, we hardly need a self-congratulatory vitriolic venue to vent our frustrations at anyone… that is what yelp and other professional resources are […]

Ok, hardly worthy of Cartesian logic, but there is something to be said for the concept. If you are not creating content, and blogging is perhaps the best way to do so - as we have repeatedly stated on this site, then as far as the online world is concerned, you do not exist.
One […]

 
Lately a lot of the buzz seems to be centered around the emergence of online games and virtual worlds as a great place to meet and attract new clients. I have had a number of agents who had never heard of Second Life before approach me ask me what I thought about the idea and […]

The last couple of weeks have been spent at meetings which have panel after panel of guest speakers on the stage speaking about how sites today need to be more with the times and how you need to embrace mashups, widgets, google maps, and all the other cool crunchy toys of the internet. However I […]

So your newish neighber sleeps all day and makes noise at absurd hours in the am. Of course you have shared your frustration with your family and friends, but that still leaves you feeling frustrated and needing some kind of closure. A quick search reveals that there is a user-contributed content website (lets […]

Imagine my surprise when I logged into my dashboard and found a new incoming link from the BloodhoundBlog recognizing my post last night on Mobile Access to MLS data as being worthy of being listed with the nominees for an Odysseus medal. Looking at the quality of the blogs that my blog was ranked with […]