Archive for August, 2007

Product Inefficiency = Third-Party Opportunity: PIM Edition

August 29, 2007

Kids everywhere are going back to school and stores have been pushing that simple fact since, well…, since they got out of school. (Maybe that’s the reason kids don’t read the newspaper — tired of being reminded.)
Anyway, back to school is really a time of getting organized for the onslaught of work ahead of us. [...]

Consumer Responsibility At Center Of Mortgage Lunacy

August 23, 2007

What I can never get over is the hubris of markets.
I remember people talking during the tech boom about how all old economic knowledge was dead and that a new economic business model with no downturns was the new norm. What a bunch of baloney.
The same is true now. Mortgage lenders talking just months ago [...]

Random Quotes from Random Minds

August 15, 2007

I was reviewing my notes from Real Estate Connect and noticed a couple of quotes I wrote down that I thought was interesting.
“We are focused on real-time real estate.” - Lennox Scott, CEO, John L Scott Real Estate
I said in my last post that I think real-time is interesting. That’s what people buy mobile computers [...]

Searching For Answers, Finding More Questions

August 8, 2007

I just returned from Real Estate Connect, a conference in San Francisco that focuses on connecting real estate with technology. There is an awful lot going on in this market. Traditional control resides with Multiple Listing Services and the National Association of Realtors. They set the terms by which buyers and sellers communicate, including the listings [...]