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Google real estate - more pieces of the jigsaw

Is it just coincidence that the day google announces more real estate functionality – discussed on this blog and almost every other real estate blog, network, pub – the NAR announce that it no longer sees Google as a scraping site?!

You may recall I discussed this a while back and now Search Engine Land reports [...]

Google real estate - reality time

More developments from Google Australia in their map functionality, which is a loud wake up call for all in this industry.

The Google Blog explains that the recent real estate search developments widely reported within the industry did not go far enough.  To remind the reader this was the introduction of the ‘more’ feature to the [...]

Automated property tweets for agents

The guys at PropertyADD have announced the release of a new function enabling agents to send Twitter updates straight from their desktops to their community of followers.

They say the new development is the first of its kind and is the perfect fit for agents wanting to embrace social media as a way to [...]

Link Building - advanced link building tips

I hear and talk about social media all the time.  It appears to preoccupy my mind to the extent that when I saw this article about Link Building on Search Engine Land I almost deleted it.

But then, hang on a minute, is one not ignoring some of the fundamental basics of general site building and [...]

Tech London naked

All I want for Christmas is a nude calendar and there are plently around this year.

The latest offering is from Tech London.  Why is this so important I hear you ask.  Well, aside form being for the benefit of a good charity, our very own industry representative, Poppy, appears as Miss October (or January or [...]

Property Owl Blog - a new home

We have moved to this shiny new wordpress account.  This is phase one of a larger Property Owl development plan that we hope will benefit all our readers.  Watch out for phase 23 it is a corker!

We have more to add to this blog and we are just muddling along with the changes and trying [...]

Web 3.0 in real estate

I was reading this and then I watched this video.

http://www.vimeo.com/7333549

The former speaks of how to define and design web 3.0, think ahead, what is the next phase, what comes after twitter etc.  The latter speaks of a position where we spend too much time chasing the former to the extent that one is doing less [...]

Hablib builds another casino

Yet another ’sell your own’ portal, Hablib, is launching on Friday 6 November and Property Portal Watch interviewed the founder, Anton Kreil, today.

Whilst Hablib has yet to fully launch it was mentioned a while back that the business model was an attempt to marry social networking and property. Someone was [...]