{"id":79,"date":"2006-07-10T23:44:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T06:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2007-01-25T01:04:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T08:04:33","slug":"o-for-a-young-and-money-hungry-web-programmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/79\/o-for-a-young-and-money-hungry-web-programmer\/","title":{"rendered":"O, for a young and money-hungry web programmer…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joel Burslem The Future of Real Estate Marketing<\/a> cites ShackYack.com<\/a>, but I don’t think we’re seeing the same thing. What he sees is another manifestation of what he calls Real Estate 2.0. What I’m seeing is a particularly user-friendly interface to an IDX system<\/a>. In other words, this is not the disintermediation of a brick ‘n’ mortar broker, this is a competitive advantage built by one broker to use against all the others. It’s not perfect, mind you. If the buyer has no idea where they want to live — a relocating family, for instance — this tool won’t be of much help. But still, it’s very cool.<\/p>\n

But the other end of this is that I’m thinking maybe Joel sees this as a very complicated application, whereas it seems to me to be just an integration of an IDX-like database with the Google Maps API<\/a>. The beauty of the tool is in the user interface, but that’s really just a Cascading Style Sheets job.<\/p>\n

In other words, a young and money-hungry web programmer could probably reverse-engineer this in no time, if the price was right…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joel Burslem The Future of Real Estate Marketing cites ShackYack.com, but I don’t think we’re seeing the same thing. What he sees is another manifestation of what he calls Real Estate 2.0. What I’m seeing is a particularly user-friendly interface to an IDX system. 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