You Must Read This, If You’re Interested In The Future Of MLS On The Web
If you’re interested in MLS and want to see where MLS crosses into web 2.0, you must read A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy...
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 Software License Woes — Arbitration Clauses
This is the third in a series of posts about negotiating software license contracts, initiated by our mistakes with GeoJet. The first post explained why...
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...
MLS History Video
Inspired in part by Greg Robertson’s post on Top 10 Vendor Breakthroughs and also the Clareity MLS history party I missed a few years ago,...
Expunging Agent From The MLS System and Other Legislative Follies
Several years ago, we had to comb through the system and remove the word “agent” wherever it appeared. So, Listing Agent became Listing Member, Selling...
Web application? Desktop application?
Following on Michael’s commentary, I disagree with the O’Reilly post that suggests that using web conventions for web applications is better, particularly for MLS software....
Implementing Revolutions
A few weeks ago at the NAR mid-year convention in D.C., there was quite a bit of buzz about the announcement that the NAR is...
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...
Why Doesn’t Google Innovate?
This is another take on the question posed a few weeks ago about why MLSs don’t innovate. In this case, let’s take on Google. What?...
Building Web Applications
Here’s a blog post on O’Reilly suggesting that sticking to web conventions for web apps (e.g., gmail) is better than trying to emulate the desktop...