Too Big, Not Too Big To Fail
Worldwide economic concerns are not the usual fodder for the FBS Blog, which is focused on the narrow vertical of the MLS industry. However, another...
The “Web-Centric Model of Real Estate”
The Notorious R.O.B. has a great post today after hearing Mariana Wagner speak at RE BlogWorld today, and the facts stood out: Mariana presented some...
Attention!
“Was the babysitter fun last night?”, I said to my daughters this morning. They responded, nearly in unison, “Yeah! She only sent one text message...
Just Like Seth
Sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut.
Data Sharing or Scraping?
Wired posted an article called Should Web Giants Let Startups Use The Information They Have About You that touches on many of the topics dear...
Rising Up Against The Joke of Airport Security
Following my post the other day on gross glasses at hotels, this is the second in probably a two-part series on travel challenges. This time...
NY Times on Blogging as Marketing
The NY Times writes today about blogging in Blogging’s A Low-Cost, High-Return Marketing Tool. I won’t say the article is great but it’s a decent...
[Insert Vomiting Sound Here]
This has nothing to do with real estate or MLS, but since I and many others at FBS travel a lot and have many friends...
“Even Inefficient At Leaving”
Russell Shaw is one of my favorite bloggers and today he predicts significant NAR membership declines over the next two years, lamenting that it will...
The Misty Gates
Once again, Gary Thomas made his “Gateway” speech at another NAR convention and unleashed more speculation (behind Inman’s paywall) about what it really means. I’ve...
I’ve got a headache
Seriously. Long flight, short layover, rushing here and there, all the while thinking about MLS regionalization. Michael Seguin from Tales from the Techside writes today...
Michael Wurzer
Good Standards Break Monopolies, Not Make Them
The discussions across the country about consolidating MLSs rages on. In some areas, however, the focus appears to be more on who leads the consolidation...
Michael Wurzer