Gotta Love JoS
Joel Spolsky is my favorite writer on software development. Period. As said on other blogs, required reading.
Real Estate 2.0 Terms of Use, Should You Blow Them Off?
REIS Innovations, a subsidiary of the Florida Association of REALTORS®, has produced a very interesting and useful document outlining the terms of use policies of...
Remarkable Service Doesn’t Have To Be Like A Root Canal
Remarkable service exceeds expectations. More often than not, though, the service provider is in control of your expectations or at least should be. Let me...
Pre-RETS Reading List
Here’s what I’m reading before the RETS conference this week: The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented The Constitution, by David O. Stewart. Code...
The Power of Success
Google just announced that they are committing $4.6 billion to the auction of wireless spectrum to be conducted by the U.S. federal government. The stated...
How Far Is Too Far?
There’s been quite a stir the last few days about the lawsuit pending against Facebook by ConnectU. For those not (yet) interested in social networking,...
Avoiding Contract Woes
Earlier this week, I posted about our woes in dealing with GeoJet at the end of our contract, and that has given me the idea...
Tips for Negotiating Software License Contracts
We’ve been using GeoJet mapping for some of our clients for a couple of years now, but we decided about six months ago to switch...
Fathers Know Best
About five years ago at the NAR mid-year convention in D.C., I was chit chatting with Warren Koeller (one of the founders of Risco MLS...
Top 10 Benefits of Business Blogging
After a mere three months of blogging, providing a top 10 list of benefits may seem presumptuous, but writing what you want is benefit #11...
Calculators
Check out instacalc.com for some easy to use calculators that can be shared easily. I created two calculators to compare investment in a 401K plan...
We Have A Secret
We were named a finalist for Business of the Year (that’s not the secret) by our local Chamber of Commerce and so they invited me...