Clareity’s “Beyond The Listings” Survey
Clareity Consulting recently published the results of a survey called “Beyond The Listings” in which the questions are aimed at finding out what content MLSs...
Is “Free” MLS Finally Here?
Over ten years ago, I recall being in a presentation at NAR’s mid-year conference and hearing Gregg Larson from Clareity Consulting predict that MLS services...
Conflicts Between RPR’s Public Statements and Proposed License
Brian Larson does an excellent service to the MLS industry presenting on his blog his analysis of the RPR license agreement, which he concludes: RPR...
Will Wall Street Impact MLS?
About a year ago, I wrote about my repeated failures at predicting agent declines over the last several years. This afternoon, I was reading a...
NAR/DOJ Settle VOW Lawsuit!
Press releases from the NAR and DOJ announce the settlement. The actual terms of the settlement are the key and I’m reading them now and...
Is FBS’s flexmls trademark a violation of NAR’s rules?
Inman has yet another article today on NAR’s recent rules trying to control use of the term MLS by their members in promoting their web...
Clareity White Paper On Future of MLS Features
Matt Cohen from Clareity Consulting has produced a white paper “to generate discussion on possible MLS system future features by providing a big picture view...
Inman Article About MLS Policy on Short Sales
Glenn Roberts of Inman News has a great article about MLS policy on short sales today that I expect many of our clients will find...
Centralization Is A Bug
Centralization is a bug · Bill Joy: “Wherever you work, most of the smart people are somewhere else.†The reason the Web worked so well...
“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...
A Thousand Flowers
Yesterday, in writing about Google’s recent OpenSocial announcement, Brian Boero of a 1000 Watt Blog gave a hat tip to the FBS Blog for previously...
Does size matter?
Re-reading my post this morning Are Competitive MLSs Possible or Desireable?, I feel like the end of the post lacked some clarity. The real question...