Ryan Kuder!

His winning entry hit my email box literally seconds after I posted the last clue on Twitter.

Ryan is the CMO for Koombea, co-creator of Hi I’m and founder of Neighborsville. Ryan also has an awesome personal blog about his Adventures in Marketing and Social Media. You should check it out.

Congratulations Ryan and we hope you share with us what you are going to do with [...]

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Roost wants to make someone’s day again. Just like we did in August when we announced that Margaret Chaidez won a Flip Mino HD Camcorder for participating in our feedback contest.

This time, we want to give away a Kodak Zi8 Digital Video Camera and we want to have a little fun in the process. Introducing the “Where’s Waldo” Home finding contest on Roost.com. The concept is pretty simple.

1. The members [...]

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So here is our fourth installment of Roost’s 50 Real Estate People You Should Follow on Twitter. If you are seeing this list for the first time, you need to stop and click the July List, August List and September List first because there are some incredible people in real estate who you could be following on Twitter. I know our October List is coming out a little late, but there is a reason. I attended RE [...]

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The Wikipedia definition of a Widget is as follows:

“A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets include: gadget, badge, module, webjit, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets usually but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.”

Now you’ve probably seen widgets before [...]

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We are proud to announce that Derek Overbey, Senior Director of Marketing & Social Media at Roost, will be speaking at REBlogWorld next week on a panel titled “Social Media in Real Estate. He will be sharing the stage with such notable social media veterans as Jeff Turner, Jay Thompson and Rhonda Porter with moderation from Matt Fagioli, newly appointed VP of Business Development at Inman.

Derek is a 14 year veteran of the real estate and technology  industries with stints [...]

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In a continuing effort to bring the readers of “A Bird’s Eye View” the most compelling content possible, we are proud to announce two new groups that will be joining us here at the Roost Blog.

First is the “Roost Mommy Blogger Network” that will be bringing us a unique perspective to the happenings in their neck of the woods. Stories will include anything from discussing schools to insights into great local restaurants to buying and selling a home.

We are especially [...]

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So here is our third installment of Roost’s 50 Real Estate People You Should Follow on Twitter. If you are seeing this list for the first time, you need to also click the July List and August List (see links below) because there are some of the most awesome people in real estate who just so happen to be on Twitter. For the month of September, we dug a little deeper and discovered some people you may not know yet, [...]

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In this new age of technology we’re living in, the Internet is often the primary tool people use to find and buy a home. One glaring drawback, however, is the opportunity it presents for scammers to defraud unsuspecting homebuyers.

This doesn’t have to happen to you. There are precautionary measures you can use to ensure that you don’t fall prey to mortgage fraud.

According to experts, nearly 82 percent of potential homebuyers begin their real estate and mortgage shopping online. [...]

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Margaret Chaidez! Congratulations on winning a new Flip Mino HD Camcorder from Roost. It is by pure chance that Margaret was the winner but what is really a weird coincidence is the project she is currently working on and how this prize will be helping her. Check out her Twitter bio:

Bio: Margaret Chaidez, chained to a camera and Macbook making first full length documentary on arthrogryposis multiplex congenita. Support your local filmmaker.

We want to again congratulate [...]

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Planning a wedding or buying a house. Which one do you think would be more challenging? Well if Roost was in the wedding planning business, it might be a toss up.

If you ask Noel Delisle this question, I’m pretty sure she would tell you that the housing process (at least the searching) would be the easier of the two. A big part of this was the fact that she discovered Roost along the way and her life got a whole [...]

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