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The best time to buy

Posted by admin on December 5th, 2007

The best time to buy is of course when Availability is high, Prices are low, and Interest rates are reasonable.  API… Availabilty, Price, Interest.
Now, before I go any further, let me preface this by saying that I have been studying the Greater SF Bay area market pretty intently for 5 years, and I <strong>have never [...]

save a tree, advertise online

Posted by admin on November 7th, 2007

Where are the green REALTORS®?
If you haven’t heard of one yet, trust me you will. With a presidential election just a year away, you will be hearing more and more talk along these lines. Selling yourself as green is a good marketing angle, and an even better life philosophy in my [...]

Congress will consider legislation shortly to create a national ‘Do Not Track’ registry. I just wanted to remind them, if this goes forward, to call Al Gore and remind him to turn off his internet, and be sure to shut down the dot servers on the way out the door.
Seriously.
As usual, when I start [...]

So your newish neighber sleeps all day and makes noise at absurd hours in the am. Of course you have shared your frustration with your family and friends, but that still leaves you feeling frustrated and needing some kind of closure. A quick search reveals that there is a user-contributed content website (lets [...]

Central vs Distributed, a familiar cycle

Posted by admin on October 1st, 2007

During my ‘digital life’ as I have worked and grown with technology I have seen a number of interesting things happen, ‘quantum leaps’ in thought and implementation. Yet certain puzzles within technology, certain ‘debates’ still rage and always will. My personal favorite is local vs central, or thick vs thin client, or centralized [...]

RE Surface - imaging is king

Posted by admin on September 26th, 2007

Imaging IS king. There are plenty of audiophiles out there who will argue with me, and certainly humans have a remarkable reaction to coordinated sounds, and an even stronger reaction to smells (nothing can evoke powerful memories of a place and time quite like an odor).
At the end of the day, however, we are [...]

Why MAX? Good Dollars and Sense

Posted by admin on September 25th, 2007

Why MAX, or more precisely, WiMAX? Well, in brief, because WiFi seems to be dying out faster than the dodo, at least at the city level. In reality, while there has been a wave of bad news, there is positive news on some fronts according to CNET. But when the title of [...]

Blog or diablog?

Posted by admin on September 20th, 2007

Just a quick tip and question here.  CAR (California Association of REALTORS) has launched a new ‘legal blog.’     You can access this fledgling resource <a href=”http://www.car.org/blogs/category.php?cid=5″>here</a>:
My question is whether blogging in this fashion, where you are clearly looking for and depending on the target audience to help make your content timely and relevant is really [...]

SEM (pt 2 or SEO & SEM)

Posted by admin on September 15th, 2007

SEM - Search Engine Marketing. SEM can be viewed as an extension to or as an alternative to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In brief, SEO means you put only ’sweat equity’ into your efforts to perform better on search engines like google. SEM means that you pay for clicks. SEM and SEO [...]

SEO & SEM

Posted by admin on September 12th, 2007

SEO & SEM
SEO & SEM. Sounds like a college conference football championship. In reality it is an important question to ask yourself as you examine your online footprint. SEO is of course short for ‘Search Engine Optimization,’ while SEM stands for ‘Search Engine Marketing.’ While they are not necessarily at odds - you can and [...]