Dec 31
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They lost the battle but will win the war

Netscrape vs Internet Exploder. That was how aficionado’s of their various browser’s disparagingly referred to their competitors product in the mid to late 90’s. It was a heady time, evidenced by the hugely successful IPO of Netscape Corporation in 1995.
I recall when I first moved to Silicon Valley, working for a semiconductor fabricator […]

Author: Michael Seguin
Dec 29
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I blog, therefore I am

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 […]

Author: Michael Seguin
Dec 21
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The Blame Game - lets get real

While I work within the ‘traditional’ real estate structure, I am certainly not an apologist for the real estate industry or REALTORS® in particular, nor for the mortgage industry or any other sector of the broader whole. When I hear that the real estate industry is under assault from the media, I try to […]

Author: Michael Seguin
Nov 23
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Second Hype

 
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 […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Nov 07
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Save a tree, advertise online

Where are the green REALTORS®?
If you haven’t heard of one yet, trust me you will. With a presidential election just a year away, you will be hearing more and more talk along these lines. Selling yourself as green is a good marketing angle, and an even better life philosophy in my […]

Author: Michael Seguin
Nov 01
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Content is great just remember to sell yourself

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 […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Oct 15
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Where 1 goes, 60 million will follow

I think I have been hearing about this moment for almost 20 years now. “What will happen when the baby boomer generation retires?” The question was generally asked within the broader context of social security reform. Today the first baby boomer applied for social security. 60 million more boomers stand behind […]

Author: Michael Seguin
Oct 12
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MLS agnostic… unless

I have made my rounds at the conferences advocating MLS agnostic technology. I still do. I firmly believe that the future will see more and more tools, widgets and technologies developed that interface with MLS(s) but are not dependent on or tied to a particular MLS… they are MLS Agnostic. The […]

Author: Michael Seguin
Oct 09
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Rotten Website - has user contributed content gone too far?

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 […]

Author: Michael Seguin
Oct 07
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Pedal to Properties

Sometimes I like to check out new real estate business models and occasionally when one catches my eye I will share it here. This is not meant to be an endorsement of a service just that I found the concept interesting and I believe it may have a broader appeal.
Pedal To Properties has come up […]

Author: Mark Flavin