Walk Score now takes the Bus (or Subway)
Our friends at Walk Score did it again. The boys in Washington are always thinking of ways to make life better for all of us. The latest enhancement is adding transit to the Walk Score product. We incorporated Walk Score in our product a long time ago, read about it ...
1
November 6, 2009
IDX Framing, now with 100% less scrollbars
Scrollbars suck. I think we can all agree on that, but when you have a "framed" idx solution, you can easily assume you're going to run into a scrollbar here or there. Well not anymore! Through a mesh of ingenuity, and a bit of alchemy, our wizards (legit mad ones) have ...
6
September 17, 2009
Agent Scouting Report – An Experiment in Transparancy
In the previous post, Jonathan told you about the Connect Create 48 hour developer competition we were invited to be in at the Inman Connect conference last week. I have to say that we planned well and worked hard, and it turned out fantastic. I’m going to go through the ...
6
August 12, 2009
Inman Connect Create – An Experiment in Endurance
At this year's Inman Connect (2009), our team of gunslinger developers were extremely privileged to participate in the first "Connect Create", which we around the office have dubbed "American Idol for Real Estate Developers". We loved the idea of competing against our peers and competitors in the real estate space. ...
3
August 10, 2009
Once an industry insider and leader, now clinging to life
Yesterday will go down in history as the day that one of the formerly largest companies in the world filed for bankruptcy protection. What went wrong? Some will say GM lost touch with what the consumers wanted, and as a result, consumers flocked to their competition overseas. ...
2
June 2, 2009
dsSearchAgent IDX: Now Available At The Speed of Ridiculous
Two days ago, we deployed a very significant change to the way our dsSearchAgent IDX product is served to our clients and our clients’ clients. Did you notice? No, there weren’t any new features this time around. This time, we focused our efforts on load time and performance. Overall, we were ...
14
May 21, 2009
Introducing dsListingExpress
I'm proud to announce that Diverse Solutions has been working hard to develop a free offering for the Real Estate community. We all know that creating listings in the MLS systems can be time consuming, and often error prone this is a problem that dsListingExpress completely solves. So without further ado, ...
6
March 31, 2009
dsSearchAgent IDX ♥’s Walk Score
Okay, we admit it. We’re suckers for Walk Score and the philosophy behind it. Here’s how Front Seat, the guys behind Walk Score, describe their product: Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, ...
12
March 25, 2009
Data Is More Important Than Ever – A Podcast Interview With Mike Simonsen of Altos Research
Mike Simonsen, a co-founder of the real estate data provider Altos Research takes some time to speak with me regarding the importance of great data in delivering a top notch real estate web presence. I've had the opportunity to view a couple of presentations on the Altos product line up ...
2
March 10, 2009
Social Media: Friend or Foe?
The idea for this post came from a comment that someone shared with me in Facebook. He shared with me that he actively denies friend requests from agents in his market that share the same desire to be found via common keywords and phrases in searches. The conversation led me ...
0
March 9, 2009
Latest Comments: