RESO: Excited for the Year Ahead!
RESO recently announced both the results of the Board election as well as the election for officers, and I’m excited and thankful to announce that...
RESO Board Elections 2018
RESO is once again conducting elections for the Board of Directors, and this year my seat is up for election and so I’m hopeful you...
Dodge Ball in MLS Standards
More than a few people have read my post the other day as somehow “picking sides” between Zillow and Upstream, or, worse, even slamming the...
RESO and OpenID Connect: The Future of Your Identity
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m at the RESO conference in Austin this week. In addition to the session on Universal Property ID, I’m also excited...
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,...
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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...
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....
More Progress on Data Standards
As I wrote following the last RETS meeting, the Cove Group (a group of the largest MLSs in the country) has moved forward to submit...
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...
Congratulations to Troy Davisson and the other new RESO Board Members
The Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) announced the results of the Board of Directors election this last week, and I’m very happy to report that...
Data Standards, At Last! (Maybe)
Those reading the FBS Blog over the last few years will know that MLS data standards has been one of most frequent topics for my...