Category Archives: Technology

The Hyper-local Blog and 10 Questions you need to ask yourself before you get started.

By Spencer Barron | Published: March 7, 2008
The linear thinkers in Real Estate 2.0 seem to believe that by appointing themselves ’mayor’ of their suburb they will rule the roost in their real estate market.  It’s an interesting concept.  A new spin on the old school real estate newsletter that could put an agent on the map. This is how it would work.  You would [...]
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RPG – not Role Playing Game

By CurtisBarron | Published: February 28, 2008
Google “RPG”, and your first hits will be about role playing games. But before there were Role Playing Games, there was RPG (Report Program Generator). This was the name of a computer programming language developed in the 1960’s by IBM. It was designed to generate reports (thus the name) in a terse, simple way. It [...]
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Apple's New iPhone, up to the hype?

By Spencer Barron | Published: January 10, 2007
Apple launches iPhone to a chorus of bloggers screaming like girls at a Beatles concert. I have to admit I was sucked in for a minute. I mean, as a Realtor, I want to have something like the iPhone, but without it costing me $600 dollars. Notice I wasn’t fooled by the $599. I’ll actually [...]
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Why Johnny Can't Code and How to Help Him

By CurtisBarron | Published: January 3, 2007
When Bill Gates was 13, a parents group enabled his school to buy a Teletype machine and computer time on a remote GE computer that used the BASIC programming language; he, Paul Allen, and others became intrigued by the technology, including obviously the immediate feedback they got from programming in an easy programming language. He [...]
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Where to spend my marketing budget?

By Spencer Barron | Published: December 29, 2006
Internet advertising is such a waste of money. Definitely overpriced compared to the returns I get from other types of advertising. Not so much my own websites- they have their use, it’s the Internet lead sources that will no longer be receiving checks from me. Lead sources like Justlisted.com, Realestate.com, HomeGain, and the myriad of [...]
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Zillow's Out – Will it Float?

By Spencer Barron | Published: December 8, 2006
  “I love Zillow.”  “I liked them before they were big.”    Saying that I was a big fan of Zillow.com from the start is kind of like saying, “I liked Dave Matthews before he got big” (My wife, a Virginia native, loves to say that).  For one, nobody believes you, and second, nobody cares.  Regardless of what people [...]
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