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Originally Posted at:http://1000wattconsulting.com/blog/2012/03/what-the-new-ipad-means-for-real-estate.html A couple of thoughts on Apple’s new iPad, which became available for purchase March 16. Start rethinking your real estate website for high-resolution screens tablet image via Shutterstock The iPad is now shipping with an insane 2048-by-1536-resolution “Retina display” screen. That means the pixels on the tablet’s screen will be virtually indistinguishable [...]

Like millions of other geeks yesterday, I tuned in to the liveblog coverage of Apple’s iPhone event. Last night, I watched the event in its entirety and I have to say I’m pretty excited by what I saw. Let’s get a few objections out of the way first, though: Seems like we’ve been waiting for a while… [...]

That is the question. More often than not these days, after long day of meetings with clients or after I’ve finished speaking at an event, someone pulls me aside in the hallway. After a few furtive glances, they lean over to me and confess… “I don’t have an iPad yet. Should I get one?” It’s [...]

To set the groundwork for this column on mobile technology, I’d like to start by laying all the cards out on the table. To give you a big picture of what we’re staring it, a clearer direction of where we are and where we may be headed. People are buying smartphones more than any other [...]

Over the coming months I plan on highlighting a bunch of great apps for real estate agents. To whet your whistle in the meantime, here a five apps that have a permanent place on my phone right now. Ban.jo Ban.jo has been called “social sonar”. Log in with your social network accounts (the app supports [...]

A couple of years ago I postulated that video would eventually kill the virtual tour (see Inman Connect Highlights Real Estate 2.0) – and, for the most part, that seems to have happened. The seemingly ubiquitous (at the time) 360 spin-and-puke photo tour has largely been replaced these days by Ken Burns-like slide shows and full [...]

On the iPhone at least. Android and other smartphone platforms have had livestreaming video apps for a while now. But the tide has finally turned in the favor of iPhone users too – as Ustream has finally had its app approved for distribution in iTunes (app store link). For me, this release culminates three of [...]

Coldwell Banker introduced a fresh take on real estate search today with the launch of its new web site at beta.coldwellbanker.com. Besides a tarted-up user interface, the new site offers a couple of intriguing new ideas that I think push the innovation needle in the right direction. The first of which is the new site [...]

New York-based broker Corcoran Group has launched a new iPhone application to help real estate consumers connect with properties. The app is very well executed and joins StreetEasy and Redfin as among my favorite real estate apps. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb91e0jqQIk[/youtube] To promote the new app, they commissioned Swedish artist Kari Modin to illustrate the key features of [...]

Great news. The deadline for early bird registration for next year’s Real Estate Connect conference in New York has been extended for another week. Plus if you register use the coupon code FOREM and you’ll save an extra $100. Connect is by far the leading technology conference in Real Estate. There’s always a fantastic line-up [...]