JibJab.com is a great site that allows you to add your image(s) to some of their premade videos. Not sure how this relates to real estate but I thought it was quite funny and worth a post. Maybe you could make one for your blog? or email to your fiends and clients. Here are a couple of videos. You might recognise yours truly in the first one.
Here is one the team over at MyTechOpinion did. Quite hilarious!
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Not only is that the best title for a blog post, but this video put out be Single Pointe Realty is quite funny. From their website:
“We were sitting around tonight discussing the intense discourse going on in the real estate profession regarding technology & its marriage to the so-called normal way of doing things. Our conversation really was about how we need to remember to laugh at ourselves- all of us. Consumers love everything we do for them so long as they are our primary concern. I hope this funny Friday gets some laughs & that the future conversations we have are how the industries came together for the consumer.
without further ado: btw, if you have no funny bone or what was mentioned above is Greek to you, feel free to skip this one… ;)”
Michael Stephenson and I attended Michael Arrington’s inaugural TechCrunch40 in San Francisco this week. The event was awesome. The idea behind the TechCrunch40 is that 40 new tech start-ups have 8 minutes each to present their business to a panel of experts. The experts then give feedback to the entrepreneurs live in front of 1000 tech professionals. Some of the experts there were Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook, MC Hammer, Guy Kawasaki, Chris Anderson the editor of Wired Magazine, Om Malik, plus many more.
There was a real estate start-up there that looks to be a Zillow type business that is a game that allows users to guess the price of a home. Not sure how it is going to workout in the long run but it is interesting to play with. You can check out their website here.
(L - R) Well-known French serial entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, Stephen Jagger, Michael Arrington the editor of TechCrunch.com, Michael Stephenson
(L - R) Michael Stephenson, MC Hammer, Stephen Jagger
Zillow, the controversial website that gives value estimates of people’s homes and other real estate info, has raised a significant $30 million of funding, despite the mortgage industry credit crunch.
The Seattle company has now raised a hefty $87 million in total funding during its short lifetime, making it one of the most richly backed of the new era of “Web 2.0″ Internet companies.
The round was led by Legg Mason Capital Management. Previous backers Benchmark Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures and PAR Capital all participated.
Opened in early 2005 by the founders of Expedia, Zillow started out as a portal for information about homes around the country. Over time, it has added on sales components for owners and real estate agents, and also provides a place for buyers to discuss or ask questions about a property.
Only last month, we reported that competitor site Redfin had landed $12 million in funding, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Trulia, the other main player in the Web 2.0 real estate space, pulled in $10 million in May. Terabitz, started by a teenager, raised $10 million in July (our coverage).
Asked whether this most recent funding round has anything to do with the real estate slowdown, chief financial officer Spencer Rascoff told me that there was no relation. Rather, it had to do with the company’s focus on employing plenty of skilled developers and improving the site.
Joel Burslem of Inman News speaks with Justin McCarthy, the Strategic Partner Development Manager of Real Estate for Google, chats about the search engine company’s approach to the real estate vertical, how Google Base is trying to deliver relevant real estate content to consumers and where Google is aiming next with property information aggregation.
hopoffthefence.com is a website created by the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® and is an online/offline advertising campaign to get consumers to buy real estate in the slowing US real estate market or in their words it is a “consumer awareness campaign about the health of the Memphis real estate market”. Either way, it is unique and reminds me of the “How Realtors Help” campaign put out my mls.ca.
(image from our pals at Sellsius)
