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Could you be more efficient with your time on Facebook and Twitter? As our social connections have grown to be borderline impossible to manage, new solutions are emerging to help us clean up the mess. Nutshell, a free tool offered by Constant Contact for anyone to use, will email you a daily summary of your [...]

Jason Baptiste, Co-Founder and CEO of OnSwipe, sees a bright future in touch-screen computing. At Real Estate Connect NYC ’12 he talked to Tracy Weir , Inman News chief marketing officer, about the future of personal computing and the shortcomings of apps. For Baptiste, consumption happens on the Web, not in apps. On the future [...]

QR codes are ugly. Forget arguing about if they are cool or useful or if they work, above all else they are ugly. I spoke with Claire Boonstra, founder of Layar, about why QR codes (“quick response” codes, like bar codes, can be scanned using a smartphone’s camera) do not stand a chance, and it [...]

Jack be Nimble. Seriously this one is good. Nimble, a social CRM from the founder of Goldmine, just added a new set of features and is quickly becoming my favorite new tool. I had created a Nimble account previously, which didn’t get much use, but I think they may have just hit the mass adoption [...]

With algorithms evolving, changing how much weight is given to different metrics, one constant remains: Link-building is critical in ranking well in the search engine results page (SERP), particularly so in highly competitive markets. Yet many people ask why links are so important, what makes a good link, and how to get links. So with [...]

Denver MLS Metrolist has ended a more than four-year vendor agreement with Diverse Solutions. According to an email sent this morning to all MetroList members, agents who use Diverse Solutions for their MetroList IDX feed will have until April 2 to find another vendor.  At that point, Diverse Solutions’ IDX will no longer work for MetroList members. MetroList [...]

If you have been wondering if the difference between the standard Associate and Premium Package to Inman Connect is worth the additional cost, let me offer the insights from someone who just returned from Connect. “A resounding, YES!” Before I do, here is a quick run down of what the additional $200 actually comes with: [...]

One of the best parts of my job is meeting people who are passionate about the work that they do. I had the good fortune of meeting someone just like that yesterday – Mark Johnson, CEO of Zite. I was invited yesterday to a special “Lunch 2.0″ at Zite’s brand new headquarters in San Francisco. [...]

Based in The Netherlands, Layar is the world’s largest mobile augmented reality (AR) platform with over 10 million installs. Founded in June 2009, the global startup also boasts a 10,000-person strong developer community that is working to make AR experiences a reality in people’s everyday lives. Layar co-founder Claire Boonstra showed us how this emerging [...]

I just returned home from my very first trip to New York City for Inman Connect Real Estate Conference (January 2012)~ THE must attend conference of the year, absolutely chock full of amazing speakers; ideas and leading minds! Inman’s Chief Evangelist Chris Smith (@Chris_Smth) and Social Media Director Katie Lance (@Katie Lance) led the first [...]