Clareity MLS Workshop Teaser on Gateway
I’ll be in Scottsdale this week for the Clareity MLS Workshop. The agenda for the workshop includes this: “Gateway Update – is it already quietly...
Questions Regarding Value of National MLS
Over on AgentGenius, Mariana Wagner has a post called A National MLS Will NOT Work And Here Are Three Reasons Why . . .” I...
Tying The Pieces Together
As the MLS industry embarks on a new year, re-focused on data standards and data sharing, we may be able to learn from similar phenomenon...
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...
Is Facebook Today’s MLS Book Or Are MLSs Tomorrow’s Facebook?
Facebook is the darling of nearly everyone, it seems, especially after the site “opened up” to allow outsiders to develop software for use inside Facebook....
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...
Where’s Justice When You Need It?
As Matt Bester of the Department of Justice was making his case yesterday in Seattle to the Council of MLS as to why the DOJ...
I’ve got a headache
Seriously. Long flight, short layover, rushing here and there, all the while thinking about MLS regionalization. Michael Seguin from Tales from the Techside writes today...
Good Standards Break Monopolies, Not Make Them
The discussions across the country about consolidating MLSs rages on. In some areas, however, the focus appears to be more on who leads the consolidation...
Comments on CAR’s MLS Working Group Statement of Principles
Mark Flavin comments today on the Statement of Principles by the CAR MLS Working Group, and I’ve added my own thoughts by commenting on the...
Interviewed by Glenn Roberts from Inman About the Future of MLS Wiki
I just got off the phone with Glenn Roberts from Inman News, who called to learn more about the FBS Blog and the Future of...
Future of MLS Wiki
I meant to get more content into the wiki before announcing it, but Jim Duncan’s post today about the NAR’s MLS Presidential Advisory Group prompted...