Fall Sunday
(A beautiful moment captured adequately with my Treo 700p, because it was with me at the right moment.)
MLS and RSS Feeds
Mark Flavin has an interesting post today about the usefulness of wireless access to MLS systems. We’re going to review some statistics regarding usage of...
Why Microsoft Will Fail
Greg Swann has been writing about his frustrations with monopoly software vendors, and now it’s my turn. A few months ago, I purchased a new...
Are Listing Portals Like the NY Times or Consumer Reports?
A day or so ago, I suggested, again, that advertising supported web sites will have a hard time building a successful listing portal, which I’ll...
Gotta Love JoS
Joel Spolsky is my favorite writer on software development. Period. As said on other blogs, required reading.
Open Source MLS
Yesterday, a software developer from ActiveRain proposed on the Future of MLS Wiki that the open source software development model could be an effective model...
Not Whining, Really
Glenn Roberts’ article is out and I’m thankful to Glenn for writing about the Future of MLS Wiki, as I hope it fosters discussion about...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
I love Clint Eastwood movies, and so really enjoyed reading Robbie Paplin’s recent post A Fistful of Feeds, riffing on the MLS data syndication issue....
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...
Tracking Green Features in MLS Systems and RETS
I’ve been at the RETS schema work group meetings the last few days, and one of the topics that arose is defining the data for...
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...