by Bryan McDonald on August 19, 2010
Fujifilm has announced the PinePix Real 3D W3 camera, an affordable digital camera that lets you shoot 3D HD movies, 3D photos, and 2D photos. The camera will cost $500 and be available in September. Is the real estate industry ready for 3D virtual tours and photos? Fuji’s new 3-D camera has two 10-megapixel CCD [...]
by Bryan McDonald on May 24, 2010
The internet and TV are quickly becoming one. You can download movies from Amazon to your DVR, stream NetFlix on your Wii, and connect your computer to your TV so you can watch Hulu or Boxee on the big screen. Pretty soon you won’t have to decide if you want to watch TV on your [...]
by Bryan McDonald on May 3, 2010
LinkedIn announced a new feature that allows individuals to follow a company. Why would I want to follow a company on LinkedIn when I already follow them on Twitter, subscribe to their blog, and am their fan on Facebook? Instead of receiving status updates from the companies you follow, you will instead get information such [...]
by Bryan McDonald on April 28, 2010
Did you see Google’s video Parisian Love during the Super Bowl? It received good reviews and has been viewed almost 5,000,000 on YouTube. Now you can create your own search story for free with YouTube’s Search Stories Video Director! It is fun and really easy to use. Click HERE if you can not see the [...]
by Bryan McDonald on April 26, 2010
Image by Ria Dis Earth day celebrated its 40th anniversary last week. In its honor, REbliss has put together a list of 8 things real estate appraisers can do to go green. 1) Go Paperless a) Convert web pages to PDFs and store them digitally instead of printing. You can use PDFmyURL to convert web [...]
by Bryan McDonald on April 15, 2010
Geographical competency has become a hot topic for real estate appraisers. There have been a lot of complaints about real estate appraisers appraising properties in an area they are unfamiliar with. The video below shows how you can use Google Maps to show your geographic competency. All you need is a list of property addresses [...]
by Bryan McDonald on April 12, 2010
Do you play FourSquare or Gowalla? As a real estate appraiser you might not think playing location based games could help your business. These games might not directly affect your bottom line, but you can use Facebook, Twitter, and even FourSquare or Gowalla to connect and build relationships with not only others in your industry, [...]