So I was going to write another recap of the last two days to close out the Inman Real Estate Connect SF show but something happened as I started to put fingertips to keyboard….we won the 2008 Inman Innovator Award in the Best New Technology category.

Now this may be hard to believe, but with the competition of this category including such cutting-edge companies as BlueRoof360, Mixpo, Obeo and Terabitz, no one around here thought we would [...]

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So it’s mid-July, and to most, the holiday season is still five months away. But for all those real estate technology geeks out there, our Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa starts on Tuesday and lasts the rest of the week. Inman’s Real Estate Connect San Francisco is once again gracing us with its presence in this beautiful city of ours.

This is the one event that cannot be missed if you work in the real estate technology space. It’s a [...]

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Three reasons why Kayak sets the standard

OK, I know firsthand that there are more reasons why Travel is unlike Real Estate then there are similarities. Real Estate is fundamentally local; I do not believe REALTORS® can/will be disintermediated; the purchase cycle happens over months if not years; and so on.

But despite all that, I still look to Kayak.com for inspiration more often than I’d care to admit.

Full disclosure, there are a few extenuating circumstances that influence how [...]

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