FBS Summit
This is the week we hold our annual FBS Summit. The Summit is an opportunity for us to share with our clients our product development plans...
The Power of Success
Google just announced that they are committing $4.6 billion to the auction of wireless spectrum to be conducted by the U.S. federal government. The stated...
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...
Days on What Market?
SoCalMLS, one of the largest MLSs in the country, announced today that it was removing days on market numbers from public/client reports. The data will still be...
MLS Systems and Gateways, Front, Back, and Middle
There’s lots of discussion and confusion regarding NAR’s Gateway proposal. Is it an MLS or not? Whoops, there’s the first mistake. What’s an MLS? Clearly,...
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...
What is NAR’s Gateway?
The other day, I posted about an article in RealTrends written by Jeremy Conaway, who said: During the Washington meetings, there seemed to be some...
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,...
Back to the Future 2
Two days ago, I posted about an article that appeared in 1996 regarding NAR’s failed RIN efforts. Yesterday, eerily on cue, a user on RealTown...
Back to the Future for MLSs
I was doing some research today and ran across this article, which has some very interesting quotes: As in other aspects of Internet life, the...