December 2007
2007-12-30 in Review, 140 Characters at a Time →
This is turning into a heck of a game. #
@henrycoy - at least you had your 29-28 for a sec there, eh? this could easily go to OT. i don’t care who wins, just want good football #
Thinking how amazing it is that I can stream live video & dsbd audio of the whole STS9 New Years run -http://www.iclips.net/newyear_sts9.php #
@respres - as long as you don’t taunt the tigers, right? they...
“Zebra celebration
Favre also provided one of the funnier moments of the...”
– PackersNews.com - Notebook: Bye affords players a short break
The Last Set of Foreclosure/REO Lists for 2007 →
Hot off the e-presses, here comes this week’s lists of active Bank Owned/REO listings in Western Alameda & Western Contra Costa counties.
A couple quick facts from last week’s download stats.
165 total downloads of the various lists
35 people downloaded the entire package of lists.
The ratio of d/l for SFR/Income property lists were 3.3/1
The Alameda County lists are 5.78 times more...
2007-12-29 in Review, 140 Characters at a Time →
Live streaming tonight’s STS9 show from Atlanta - http://iclips.net/newyear_sts9.php #
OMG- I’m dying here “Great Olan Mills photos” - http://tinyurl.com/35vkx2 #
Listening to Led Zeppelin “How the West Was Won” and starting a massive re-org of the home office. planning for 2008 on tap later wishmeluck #
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Looking Ahead to 2008 With Another List of Lists →
Fresh off the heels of the list of lists looking back at 2007, now comes the list of lists for 2008. Once again, I’m planning to add to this list as time goes on and it should be fun to check as time goes by.
So here goes…
Mike Simonsen with Altos Research gives his RE.net Predictions for 2008
Tom Vanderwell from Blown Mortgage -My turn - predictions for 2008
The Economist: Technology in...
2007-12-28 in Review, 140 Characters at a Time →
On my way to show a client’s rental, yet again. ahh, the things we’ll do for our community of clients #
Wait… @guykawasaki is tweeting like a human & i’m missing out on a great conversation. stream going too fast, wish I could see >10 … #
I’m sensing that today is going to be a “catch it while it’s early, preventative medicine kinda day.” Headed out for an EmergenC run...
rdmey | How I learned CSS →
“So stop thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what...”
– Seth’s Blog: Only two years left
A Great Message for Us in the Business →
Seth Godin is one of my favorite authors, unknowing mentor and personal hero. He has a great post from a couple of years ago that he quoted for his last post of 2007. His question is “Why not be great?“ To all of us that have tracked the implosion of this market, the epic shifts in business and the everchanging tides of finance, regulation, legislation and more - now is the time to embrace...
Media 2008 is a Mix-Get Mixing →
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iEllie.com is a personal blog by a college student majoring in mass communications, focusing on PR. Her blog is an interesting peek into the heads of college students and how they’re viewing blogs, media making, and media consumption. Encapsulated on the first page alone are some interesting points to consider. And before you go and dismiss the blog for being...
12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half... →
If your information were calories, what would you look like?
OK, I need to clear something up…
Despite how orgasmic it makes Gawker feel, their ace of spades insult from my recent NY Times piece is a partial misquote: “Mr. Ferriss says he gets most of his news by asking waiters.”
The NYT article was very well done, but the truth is that I get some of my information from many different...
2007-12-27 in Review, 140 Characters at a Time →
Enjoying the rest of my day off and getting ready to finish the week strong. #
Back in the office and trying to break free of the post-Christmas doldrums. Thinking this vat of coffee should help. #
I have my goals & then work down to the actionable items that I need to do in order to accomplish my goals. Trying to stick with the 4-1-1 #
Looking forward to putting my plan for 2008...
Looking Back at 2007 With A List of Lists →
So…we’re quickly approaching the end of 2007, which means that the end of the year lists are about to start flooding in. In the past I’d save a few to my del.icio.us, but this year, I thought that I’d create a post that I’d keep adding to as I came across different lists.
If you find a good one that I don’t have yet, please feel free to leave a comment, along with a link.
Wired- Top 10...
“I’ve removed snow from a lot of places, and now I’m going to be able...”
– JS Online: Excitement comes by the shovelful Some of the shovel brigade clear bleachers Thursday at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. The first 300 fans made it into the stadium; twice that many waited outside.
How To Raise Your Vibration When You Feel Fear →
People often tell me stories of being afraid of going to sleep at night because they either fear, or know, they are going to have a negative experience. Perhaps it’s an encounter with a negative entity, sleep paralysis, the monster under the bed, or just plain fear of the dark. Sometimes it’s an irrational fear, and sometimes the fear is justified. Sometimes there really is something lurking...
2007-12-26 in Review, 140 Characters at a Time →
On x-mas your. Just left @rycaut ’s place and headed to @isho ’s family in HMB #
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Hey BART Riders, Changes Are Coming on Jan 1st →
from BART’s website
Starting January 1, 2008, BART riders will see enhanced service including:
* More trains, more often after 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday & all the time Sunday * Double the trains to most stations on the San Francisco International Airport (SFO)/Millbrae extension * Faster commutes times and direct service from Millbrae to downtown San Francisco * Earlier start time for...
The 2007 Humdinger Award Short List →
Time’s up. Thanks to everyone who participated in nominating 2007’s funniest post on RE.net. About now, I should say something about how hard it was to choose from all the great posts. But that would be a lie. I just threw some darts. It only took a couple minutes.
The finalists, in no particular order:
DTPMMALF - I missed this one originally. The contest was worth the trouble, based solely on...
Twitter at Velocity →
Twitter is tricky sometimes, especially when you have a bunch of people added into the stream. It’s something that I will blog about tomorrow at greater length, but I wanted to just jot something, almost as a note to myself, but that might bear some consideration. Twitter, I believe, is two different things depending on how many folks you’re following, and I believe it should be viewed as...
“Alterna-rockers Radiohead will stream a free, hour-long concert of their latest...”
– Radiohead: Free New Year’s Web Concert, Amazon Beats iTunes To ‘In Rainbows’ - Silicon Alley Insider
Social Media is a Set Not a Part →
Corporations are built of very distinct pieces. People understand their jobs, their duties, and how they will be measured. This very thinking is industrial in nature. It fits well in 1900’s-era thinking. If you are a machinist, your job is to turn out perfect gears. If you are a painter, your job is to paint your parts expertly and waste less paint. But in an age where pretty much everything...
Realtor cheerleading →
Bernice Ross, a national Realtor speaker and CEO of Realestatecoach.com recently stated on Inman News (inmannews.com), “Only 25 percent of all mortgages are subprime, and of these, 75 percent are performing.”
Unbelievable! Using Ms. Ross’ own math, what she really telling us is that 25% of subprime loans are NOT performing and that makes at least 6.25% of all mortgages (25% non-performing of...
2007-12-25 in Review, 140 Characters at a Time →
@respres - happy holidays to you & your family. (still glad that Clark Griswold house wasn’t yours) #
Cranking American Beauty in the offfice. A little acoustic Dead never hurts. Starting to look good in here! #
@clevelandcarole - cool! moved onto some disco biscuits out here: http://tinyurl.com/ysl9q8 #
Settling in for the yearly “A Christmas Story” viewing. Maybe I’ll get...
No Matter How Bad it Gets… →
…at least there ain’t no hole in the wash tub.
If you grew up in the late 70’s & early 80’s and had HBO, watching Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas was probably an annual event. I know it was in our house.
Of course Emmet ended up putting a hole in the washtub & his mom sold his tools. Kind of absurd if you really think about it, but it all works out in the end.
& if you haven’t...
2007-12-24 in Review, 140 Characters at a Time →
Just posted this week’s REO lists & did a little template tweaking over at http://myeastbayagent.com/ Time for a break before SNF #
d/l ed Phish- Clifford Ball:From the Archives Part 1 & getting outta the house for a bit- http://andykaufman.tumblr.com/post/22253119 #
@nick- http://tinyurl.com/3bpvpu #
Got stuck watching the end of Lebowski again. Need to somehow start working...
Fizber com - For Sale By Owner - Homes and Houses... →
DriveScore, What? →
A while back, I wrote a post about a new site called WalkScore. Over the last few weeks, that old post received two comments touting the great new site … DriveScore! Drivescore is a site that analyzes how many things you can drive to from a given address. I went and checked it out, after this second post. And, I’m sorry, I just don’t get it. Here is why DriveScore is a...
2007-12-23 in Review, 140 Characters at a Time →
Saturday in December means NFL football. Rooting for the Panthers in hopes that the NFC playoffs with go through Green Bay! #
@respres -is that really your house, or does Clark Griswold live in your hood? i can just picture the electric meter spinning like a gyro #
Just published my first post over at AgentGenius - http://agentgenius.com/?p=628 #
First comment on the latest FSJ post...
Fake Steve Jobs’ Hoax? Clifford Irving style! →
Summary: Dan Lyons (editor of the Fake Steve Jobs’ blog) seems to have pulled a quick hoax on the gullible reader base of his blog — I was sold when he started writing in his own voice on his Fake Steve Jobs blog alleging that the legal eagles at Apple were trying to shut down his blog for half a million dollars! — Reminiscent of another hoax when Clifford Irving duped a nation into believing he...
This Week’s Bank Owned Foreclosure Lists →
Here’s this week’s lists of active Bank Owned REO properties in Western Alameda & Western Contra Costa counties.
Like I mentioned in an earlier post, as long as there’s demand, we’ll be posting new lists here weekly. I’ll also be posting the lists in the relatively static Foreclosures / REOs section of the site, so if you miss a week and want to find an older one, look in there.
We think...
This Is the Sound of a Bubble Bursting - New York... →
“Clifford Ball - From The Archives Part...”
– PT | Phish | Message Board | “FROM THE ARCHIVE” Festival Radio (SS!)
“I’m just plain terrified by the possibility of a Pats-Packers Super Bowl...”
– ESPN Page 2 - Simmons: Our national arms crisis
2007-12-22 in Review, 140 Characters at a Time →
Just finished showing a place and getting ready to head back to the city. Part 2 of the Jim Rome year in review is all loaded and ready … #
bloggin, tweakin blogs & watching planes, trains & automobiles (unfortunately it’s the edited version on ComCentral…ruins the best part) #
The smells of the onion pork roast in the slow cooker in starting to infuse the studio. @respres - Col FB?...
Too Sexy for Real Estate? →
No way!
The Front Steps blog in San Francisco had some fun recently and held a little contest where my buddy Mark Choey was named the sexiest male REALTOR in San Francisco.
Mark is the creator of the SF New Developments blog, a co-founder of the Climb Real Estate Group, and all around super cool dude.
He’s my go to guy when I need the skinny of what’s going down in the city, or need a...
From One Dog to Another →
Hello, Odysseus. Tobey here. I’d hoped you wouldn’t continue barking up the wrong tree but that truly seems to be your modus operandi …
As I said — and as the mewling mob graciously demonstrated — this is not a debatable proposition. People made a dumb mistake, and, in preference to admitting the obvious, they made asses of themselves. A surprise to no one.
This is but one of the many “do as I...
A golden rule for Teri Lussier — and for you →
My eighth grade civics teacher was a big bear of a man named Russell Hazelton. He was a part-time preacher for a hard-line fundamentalist sect, and he was as dapper a dresser as a big man can get to be on two small salaries. The very first day of class he was deliberately about 90 seconds late. He wanted for everyone to be in the room and settled down so he could stalk into the classroom, turn,...
How to Tell the Difference Between an Idiot and a... →
It seems Daniel Rothman’s video experiment below has been regarded by at least one chafed blogger pup as “deeply insulting by ordinary people” and showing a “profound contempt” for them. According to this blogger, it is pandering and condescending, treating consumers as idiots, morons, and retards.*
Well, rather than purporting to speak for consumers like this chap, we thought it better to just...
Twitter Updates for 2007-12-21 →
Just posted: Real Estate Video: Jeff Turner & the Real Estate Zebra - http://tinyurl.com/ytrqec featuring @respres & @realestatezebra #
Flyers are printed and Glen and I are getting ready to head out to the Bay Area Wealth Builders year end extravaganza - http://bawb.info/ #
At the BAWB meeting. Just ran into Kevin Boer from 3 Oceans RE. #
The nouveau riche guy is getting heckled....
Some of the Many Are Consumers →
I went to a high school run by the Jesuits. Think “Dead Poets Society” with Roman collars. The teachers were a little bit Pope John Paul II, a whole lot of Vince Lombardi, and, as is necessary to the development of young men, a healthy amount of Thomas Jefferson. The Jesuits are often admired for their ability to develop the “whole man”: intellectual, athletic, social, and most importantly,...
Please Stop Crowdsourcing Me →
No, seriously. Stop it. I’m tired.
I came and I thought, hey, this is kind of neat-o and it empowered me at first. I thought, “Awesome! They want my opinion! They listen!” and I offered it and the feedback was, “Great idea!” and I watched as you implemented it, then benefitted from it and I felt good. I was great at first, but then after a while, I started to feel a little dirty…a little used…a...
Greg Swann does his best Dave Winer impersonation… →
… in a post on BloodHound Blog where he blasted both Daniel Rothamel’s recent video (which I posted yesterday), and the RE.net for their cliquish behavior in praising it and promoting it virally.
So I was in my thinking chamber (otherwise known as the shower) this morning, when it dawned on me…Greg is sort of like the RE.net’s Dave Winer. While I’ve actually never met either of them in person, I...
Twitter Updates for 2007-12-20 →
The holiday white elephant gifting is now in Yankee Swap mode- no iPod yet - http://tinyurl.com/3ysxuf #
I think we broke @seesmic #
Looks like DirecTV has a new UI. Seems to respond quicker to commands. TV is starting to keep up w/ me. I’ll be sure to test it on Sunday #
thanks @henrycoy… and a big thanks to @stevegroves for having us on. doing the podcast was a ton of fun -...
Controversy over the Black & White Video →
Are you freakin’ kidding me?
Look- most of you know that Greg Swann and I are actual friends (AND that he is friends with Daniel Rothamel) offline. That doesn’t stop any of us from calling each other out.
Therefore, in the spirit of “transparency” (since that is still the hot word of the minute), I’ll invite you to do the following:
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(1) Check out the video in question.
(2) Read all...
Real Estate Video: Jeff Turner & the Real Estate... →
A few days ago, Jeff Turner asked us for our thoughts on video and it’s potential uses in the Real Estate space. He posted the question as a video on Seesmic, a service that encourages video interaction and is currently in private pre-alpha, and we talked back. Jeff then took the responses and edited them into a super cool 14 minute video that he posted today on Google Video along with the details...
Great tip for fostering community belonging - find... →
David Lazer has a great pointer to a NY Times article on Silicon Valley - Shaped by Technology and traffic. Some important quotes: “For a consumer Internet company, this is where everything happens,” he
said. “It’s true that things can be done anywhere on the Internet, but
at the end of the day it’s still a people business.” The shared backgrounds, interests and schools make for frictionless...
Connecting with users: Leverage live events with... →
I attended the Lunch 2.0 event at Oodle yesterday. It was supposed to be from noon to about 2pm at San Mateo. This was my first Lunch2.0 event BTW. Heard from many folks that they are fun, casual and you make some great connections. So I show up at 1230 assuming I’d get about 10-20 people and meet some old friends - and oh yes, free lunch. Getting on the elevator to the 4th floor I...
Twitter Updates for 2007-12-19 →
@virtuallin - I was waiting for someone to suggest Joomla. This might be my chance to give it a whirl. gotta run, i’ll check into it tonite #
@urban_mermaid - you’re such a nerd! (says the guy who is currently mid typing tutor course on his BART commutes) #
Watching Chris Anderson’s talk “Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price” & catching up on feeds...
