RESO Ain’t No Pooh-Pooh
“And the one system vendor with great longevity and respect in the industry pooh-poohed the idea saying it would never work.” — Bob Bemis,...
Michael Wurzer
Show Me The Data Standards, a Flexmls for iPhone Story
When we announced the Spark Platform, I explained how we hoped it would incentivize data standardization: Importantly, the Spark Platform is as much a process...
Michael Wurzer
September 2011 RETS Recap
The September 2011 RETS meetings were held last week, with a lot of forward momentum in terms of a data dictionary, potentially new API approaches...
Standards are what happens while we’re busy making other plans”
Steve Gillmor wrote the following in a post on TechCrunch a few days ago: Standards are what happens while we’re busy making other plans. They...
WAV Group Series on Broker Technology
The WAV Group is producing a great series of post that make an excellent case for more and better data standards in our industry, from...
Implementing meaningful data standards requires cooperation among MLSs and vendors
This week I’m in Chicago for the Real Estate Standards Organization fall meeting and then for CMLS 2010 in the latter part of the week....
How to Build a Successful Standard
Here are some tips from Adam Bosworth (who worked on ODBC, XML, etc.) on how to build a successful standard: 1. Keep the standard as...