The 360 degree views of real estate listings were remarkable for their time, but are giving way to new technology that lets users look at many things at once, says Microsoft Live Labs Technical Fellow Gary Flake, who was speaking last week at Inman’s Real Estate Connect in San Francisco.
“We’re used to Web navigating [...]
Category Archives: Conferences
Microsoft on Real Estate: 360 Degree Panorama Gives Way to ‘Photo Synth’
July 20, 2010 – 4:36 pm
NYT’s Zimbalist at Inman: Everything Must Sync
July 15, 2010 – 4:22 pm
Michael Zimbalist, who runs R&D at The New York Times Co., told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco yesterday that the rise of social networks has spearheaded a very real shift from “the paradigm of publishing to the paradigm of communicating.”
“The consumer is squarely at the center,” said Zimbalist, noting that there are [...]
Redfin’s Glenn Kelman at Inman: 16 Markets by end of 2010
July 14, 2010 – 10:52 pm
Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco yesterday that his “customer first” brokerage is likely to be in 16 markets by yearend 2010. The site is currently in 12 markets and employs 100 agents.
Redfin’s apparent progress is seen by some as evidence that the advantage goes to [...]
Scoble at Inman: Location Represents Third Movement of Info
July 14, 2010 – 4:25 am
Blog king Robert Scoble, during a presentation at Inman Real Estate Connect today in San Francisco, said we’ve entered “the third movement of information” during the Internet era. All are necessary to boost appearances on Google, he told the real estate oriented audience. In 1998, we saw the introduction of the blog, [...]
Craig Newmark at Inman: Craig’s List in 70 Cities
July 14, 2010 – 4:10 am
Craig’s List Founder Craig Newmark made another of his regular visits to Brad Inman’s stage at Real Estate Connect today, which is taking place in San Francisco. Newmark, who humbly refers to himself as working in customer service, noted that Craig’s List is now in 70 cities and receives over 50 million unique visitors a [...]
Placecast: Getting National Retailers on the Local Web
May 25, 2010 – 11:52 pm
National retailers are increasingly looking to get their local stores into local websites, directories and social and mobile sites. But they are confronting issues such as bad local store listing data, and the challenge of competing with locally-owned stores for social and mobile media awareness, according to a morning panel hosted by Red Door Interactive [...]
Top Takeaways from Marketplaces 2010
March 25, 2010 – 11:18 pm
BIA/Kelsey’s Marketplaces 2010 conference has just ended after two-and-a-half days of fantastic presentations from 49 speakers; top-level research from our BIA/Kelsey team; and really great evening events from MojoPages and Acxiom/Moon Valley (we’re talking fire eaters and San Diego Bay cruises). Thanks especially to the 375+ attendees who came from 13 countries to San [...]
