Future of MLS
Athol Kay writes that he’s tired of agents crying like babies that the MLS data shouldn’t be used for advertising, and suggests that the existings...
New Toy — Brief Review of Thinkpad X61 Tablet and Windows Vista
After toting around my Sony Vaio and an HP tablet for several months, I finally decided to get the Thinkpad X61 tablet from Lenovo so...
Payload Payoff
This post is a note of thanks to everyone participating in the RETS payload review sessions the last few days: Paul Stusiak and Gina Accawi...
Turning Lawsuits Into Gold
The Real Estate Alchemy blog is well-named today, suggesting that their (Point2’s) “NLS” (national listing system) software is the solution to the DOJ lawsuit against...
That’s a lot of traffic!
HAR.com reports that their public web site handled 1 billion “hits” in March. I wonder if that’s page views, web server hits, or something else? ...
Fathers Know Best
About five years ago at the NAR mid-year convention in D.C., I was chit chatting with Warren Koeller (one of the founders of Risco MLS...
What’s your business?
Why is the Internet access at conference hotels so bad? It doesn’t seem to matter where I go for business meetings, if a large or...
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...
MLS Map Searching: Point in Polygon
There’s a bit of buzz in the blogosphere over Real Tech LLC adding polygon searching to John L Scott’s web site. Joel Burslem over at...
Like Sands Through The Hourglass
These are the days of my blog. This post is both too easy and necessary, for my sanity. I’m supposed to be running an MLS...
Top 10 Benefits of Business Blogging
After a mere three months of blogging, providing a top 10 list of benefits may seem presumptuous, but writing what you want is benefit #11...
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....