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Andrew Machado built Open Home Pro to solve a big problem for his girlfriend. Week after week she would come home frustrated after her open houses ended. Apparently, MickeyMouse@AOL.com is not a real email address. Some 17,000 registered users later, all on the iPad by the way, Andrew obviously solved a problem for more than just [...]

Instagram is the much-discussed picture taking/editing and sharing app available for the iPhone and Android markets (Instagram was just bought by Facebook for a whopping $1 billion!). Postagram (also available on both markets) allows you to share your Instagram (as well as regular and Facebook) pictures via a real postcard, delivered by the U.S. Postal [...]

More than 25 billion applications have been downloaded in iTunes. So why doesn’t your MLS have one? MLS-Touch built an app that brings the critical features an agent in the field needs to the iPhone and iPad. Now it just needs the MLSs to buy in, often a difficult task for software companies seeking precious [...]

Can an algorithm create a price reduction? LeapRE sure thinks so. The goal of their new software is to remove the salesperson’s opinion regarding price adjustments after the home is listed by the agent. LeapRE builds “pricing reports” for the consumer, on behalf of the agent, by curating several inarguable data points. LeapRE presents to the home seller [...]

“A CRM system with no data is no good!” I had the chance to interview Ed Kohler, Director of Strategic Internet Marketing and Development, of WhereToLive.com, which was featured as one of the companies we met at Inman News’ first-ever Demo Day. I had heard of WhereToLive.com but wasn’t completely familiar with their system until [...]

Real estate data can be ugly. Confusing consumers more than it educates them. Nudge, the new web app from the team at 1000 Watt Consulting, is hoping to fix that.   Pictured below is the way a statistic like ‘Time on Market’ is often presented to consumers:   Here is how Nudge presents the same data: Which [...]

“Facebook is the photo economy.” -Guy Kawasaki Per Pixable, the average Facebook users network now consists of 97,000 pictures. More than 90 billion total photos have been uploaded to Facebook. There are 6 billion pictures being added monthly. Facebook just spent $1 billion on Instagram, the iPhone app of the year, built specifically to take [...]

There are tons and tons of “Top Ten Apps” lists out there. If you purchase and download them all then your phone is probably a cluttered mess. Here are some tips to help you cull out the list. Maybe you can apply it as preventative medicine to keep you from downloading a ton of apps [...]

Calling all about.me users and curious kittens interested in learning about the new iPhone app they launched this week! First, for those of you unfamiliar with about.me, it is a FREE service that lets you create a beautiful one-page website that is all about you and your interests and passions. It is so simple to [...]

Tired of being buried in email? Lighten the load and reclaim your time! Just follow these easy steps to organize and automate your inbox! Start with a new, primary email account. Use this account only for interaction with live human beings. mail image via shutterstock Use a secondary account for online registrations. You might want [...]