Tales from the Techside

Mr Gates,
first, thanks for Vista. I am singularly unimpressed and should have known better. Which brings me to my much larger point.
Please stop trying to squash the Open Source Software movement with your economic clout. You produce software like the government produces corruption; there is a lot of it, it all looks […]

Congress will consider legislation shortly to create a national ‘Do Not Track’ registry. I just wanted to remind them, if this goes forward, to call Al Gore and remind him to turn off his internet, and be sure to shut down the dot servers on the way out the door.
Seriously.
As usual, when I start […]

During my ‘digital life’ as I have worked and grown with technology I have seen a number of interesting things happen, ‘quantum leaps’ in thought and implementation. Yet certain puzzles within technology, certain ‘debates’ still rage and always will. My personal favorite is local vs central, or thick vs thin client, or centralized […]

Michael Seguin has written a couple of awesome articles on Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. I thought I would toss this little nuts and bolts guide in the mix for anyone who was interested in doing some quick and easy SEO.
There are a couple of elements that if correctly optimized can make sure […]

SEM - Search Engine Marketing. SEM can be viewed as an extension to or as an alternative to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In brief, SEO means you put only ’sweat equity’ into your efforts to perform better on search engines like google. SEM means that you pay for clicks. SEM and SEO […]

SEO & SEM
SEO & SEM. Sounds like a college conference football championship. In reality it is an important question to ask yourself as you examine your online footprint. SEO is of course short for ‘Search Engine Optimization,’ while SEM stands for ‘Search Engine Marketing.’ While they are not necessarily at odds - you can and […]

A recent study of users using eye heat-tracking technology shows that people are not paying the same attention to banner ads that they used to. The ads that were displayed in the study did not receive a glance from viewers of web-pages. Interestingly enough the same study showed that people do not look at non-ad […]

After writing my post yesterday on Local Search I got to thinking that there are some really great services out there that let you track what is being said on the Internet. While there are many services that charge big money for the privilege there are also a number free services which do a great […]

Advertising over time has quickly shifted from a printed media focus towards online. This is not new information the article referenced is over a year old. So why then are we still seeing a push towards traditional media in the Real Estate industry?
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. I believe that for many […]

One of the great things about my job is all the incredible conversations I get to have with people involved at every level of the real estate industry, from Brokers and agents, to title reps and affiliates, vendors and 3rd parties I get to interface with them all and it is great!
An almost constant theme […]