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ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones shows us a new breed of penguins!

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!

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… ;)”

Thanks to Joel for finding this one.

TechCrunch is reporting that the San Francisco area has had a major outage to some key websites on the internet. Netflix, Technorati, Craigslist, Typepad, Vox, Yelp, Alexa and LiveJournal were all down this morning, some are still down. I guess that is why there is no such thing as 100% uptime.

On the lighter side, here is a great video that Joel over at futureofrealestatemarketing.com posted. It is quite funny.

Interesting website that will take an image of your face and tell you what celebrities look similar to you. In my case it seems that the closest I get is 60% similar. Want to create your own? You can do that here.

In keeping with the theme of my last post about the opening of the internet and how information is being freed all over the place - I want to direct your attention to buymenot.com

BugMeNot.com is a website that allows you to bypass compulsory registration. You can find and share logins for websites that require you to have a username and password to access the information. At this time, there top 6 most popular sites are:
www.nytimes.com
www.nypost.com
www.washingtonpost.com
www.chicagotribune.com
www.imdb.com
www.youtube.com

This is just another example of how information is being exposed on the internet. Don’t fight it, embrace it. Start blogging about your thoughts on the real estate market, give away that “report” that you have on your website without requiring clients to log in. Embrace the internet and it will do wonders for your business!

UPDATE: From Inman News - “Today’s consumer wants the information now and they want it for free - and personal contact information is now considered currency.”

BMW and Google seem to have a new feature where you can send your Google Maps search to your BMW. Would work well for agents visiting multiple locations, save paper, plus be quite cool.

I also like how BMW and Google have released videos on YouTube to promote the feature.

hat tip: Inman

Relevision Productions of Vancouver has produced a 5 part Comedy series; “sponsored” by Cressey Developments.
The 5 part mini-series distributed through YouTube is an interesting approach to marketing the Yaletown Donovan Condo Development.

This may be the biggest product placement ever!

Marketers proclaim that people buy benefits not features.

The Donovan series demonstrates in an entertaining manner the lifestyle of the urban fashionable, expresso sipping Yaletown Set.

Whatever you think of the video; admire this… they have targeted a specific market with laser focus.

Distribution of the video through YouTube with the tags “Sexy, blonde, condo, gay, hot, funny and vancouver” speaks volumes of whom they expect to buy condo’s within the Donovan.

Some may ask what are “Tags”?; those some are not the target buyers of the Donovan.

Great success comes from getting out of the comfortable middle and pushing yourself to the edge; I give kudos to this initiative and think it may become the Scion of Condo Marketing.

Seth Godin proclaims the benefits of being a Purple Cow. I see one grazing on Richards.

Learn More:
Scion: Limited edition vehicles quickly sell out.
Tagging : Folksonomy for condo’s
Seth Godin: Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

I forgot to mention that while I was away the bubble burst! No, not the real estate “bubble” - - -
the bubble roof of BC Place stadium in downtown Vancouver ripped while I was away last week.
Up until last week BC Place was the world’s largest air-supported domed stadium.

What it should look like:

What is currently looks like:

The guys over at sellsius point out a couple of fun tools to play with. The first one gives you the ability to spell anything using letters found in flickr. If you don’t like the look of the letter the system chose for you click on it and the system will try again. Here is what I made:

The other tool uses satellite images of building from Google Maps to create your letters. This one is a little less flexibility as you can’t change the letters that they provide, but it is still fun. Below, all of the letters are actually buildings or intersections: