Tales from the Techside

In the dark corners of the web there has been a growing debate regarding how social networks expose their users to more risks. The premise behind this is that by and far most social networking platforms are built on open platforms. These platforms let their users create plugins, access APIs, and share their created content […]

I was reading Inman News this morning when I came across a story “Facebook group for Realtors forced to shut down over title” and the subtitle was “Local association takes issue with ‘Realtor’ in networking group’s name”.
As an industry, REALTORS have worked hard for the title of REALTOR to mean something. Daily there a lot […]

Lets face it the Internet is a dangerous place and with REALTORS spending more of their time on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook they are more likely to run into the various pests which exploit weaknesses inherent to those sites. To be fair to MySpace and Facebook it is not their applications […]

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 […]

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 […]

A security researcher has discovered a serious vulnerability in GMail that makes it possible for a malicious site to add filter to your Gmail account which will then automatically forward all your email to another email address. Basically the vulnerability works like this:
The victim visits a malicious page while logged into GMail. The malicious page […]

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A few days ago Brian Wilson over at the Geek Estate Blog posted an excellent article about Listing Syndication, this prompted me to write a post about Data Standardization because in my crazy way of viewing the universe they are interrelated. What I would like to examine now is the broad syndication […]

If you are running version 2.2 of the word-press platform you should probably make sure you have the latest upgrade to 2.2.3 there is a pretty large security hole which has been patched.
The two high priority fixes for this release are:

RSS2 comments feed was not working with the authors email address being transmitted improperly
There was […]

Net neutrality is the idea that all data should be treated the same regardless of where the information comes from. To put this simply Google does not receive any priority over this blog just because it is Google and they have more money than many small countries.
To my perspective this is a no-brainer, however to […]

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 […]