For those of you attending the Inman Connect SF 2009 conference or just like reading about Real Estate Webmaster antics here is some news for you.

We (technically myself, Michael and Phil) have entered the Inman Connect Create Hackathon (or developers challenge) down in San Fransisco the first week of August.

What is the Connect Create?

It's a contest where small groups of developers compete (on site) to develop their most creative / useful / killer real estate related app. You can plan it (we certainly have a plan) but you can't write a single line of code or pre-design the interface before you get there. We are certainly committed to honoring these rules and because it's an honor system we hope all our worthy competitors will honor it as well.

What…

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I just posted this as a comment on the NAR blog, but I thought that it probably deserved it's own post as it really should be directed at MIBOR and not NAR - basically we all know the change to the IDX verbiage will be passed it's just a matter of due dilligence (can't blame NAR for that I suppose) but it's also going to take time - all the while, we are stuck without indexable pages until this ruling passes (we being Paula Henry / Mike Taylor of http://www.reddoorindy.com and myself - yes, I consider myself part of the team)

So here is what I wrote on the NAR blog as a potential compromise - I would love to hear some comments from MIBOR members on this issue and I think everyone would like to see some good will and common sense prevail here (it would…

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THIS PROMOTION IS NOW CLOSED

Real Estate Webmasters turns 5 years old today! (April 9th 2009)

I keep sitting down to write a super long post all teary eyed about how awesome our members and customers have been over the last 5 years but honestly I am going to run out of birthday before I'm done - so I have decided to save that post for another day and just keep our Real Estate Webmasters 5th birthday promo post short and sweet -

THANK YOU!

To all of our members, to all of our staff, and especially to all of customers thank you for 5 great years.

It has been an amazing experience and we have learned so much from you all, and hopefully you have been able to learn a few things from us as well. Along the way we have developed a lot of friendships and…

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For those of you following the Sarasota Association of Realtors fiasco (SAR) and lending your support, I have just created a great new way for you to showcase your disapproval for what SAR has done to our member Marc Rasmussen.

The "No SARjacking" Badge.

 To place this badge on your website, simply paste this html code to the left of the badge into your webpage, or blog, and save the page:

 

<a href="http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/blogs/morgan-carey/6350/show/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/SARjacking-badge.jpg" border="0" width="200"></a>

 Some additional sizes now available:

 

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THIS PROMOTION SOLD OUT IN 3 DAYS - Thanks for all who purchased

Real Estate Webmasters is offering the most significant discounted price ever on our most popular product - the REW CORE IDX (yes it's the one that is built into your REW website, has snippet & lead management integration and is search engine spiderable.)

So what's the deal - how do I save $2000?

Normally REW CORE IDX is $2500 for install and $360 USD per year for IDX data hosting.

For these 2 weeks (and only these 2 weeks) we will be offering our CORE IDX install for 20% of it's normal cost (You read that right, not a 20% discount, but 20% of it's price) basically you save $2000 USD if you buy now.

Some basic terms for this promo:

• In order to qualify for this limited time…

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For those of you who are MRIS members and were following the thread regarding prohibitive pricing from MRIS - we have some good news. MRIS has decided to adjust their pricing model for data so that agents can now enjoy more choice when it comes to their IDX Vendors - most importantly, you will now be able to take advantage of REW's built in search engine friendly IDX.

Here is how the new pricing breaks down:

For agents: (Brokers please see broker pricing tba)

$1000 per year annual developer fee (regardless of how many agents use the IDX)
Yearly data fees (These are based on the number of subscribers and is a fee charged by MRIS)

• 1-25 Agents $5000 USD per year
• 26-100 Agents $10,000 USD per year
• 101-199 Agents $15,000 USD per…
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As many of you noticed we launched the new REW design V 2.something and have all sorts of new sections - one of the more prominent ones is the new MLS board search - which allows users to search all of the MLS boards that Real Estate Webmasters services in terms of providing custom IDX solutions.

Now Reed has been workign hard populating the thing, and we aren't even close to done - but I had never actually sat down and counted, so I did - and wow I was quite surprised! So far I count that we have entered and currently service no less than 77 different IDX feeds covering even more MLS boards.

Here is what poor Reed has had to compile so far: Lots more to come ABOR
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For those of you looking for CTAR MLS information this post should help.

Creating a custom CTARIDX, first you need a feed.

The person you need to speak to if you are looking to create a custom IDX via CTAR MLS is Jennifer Blalock, she is the information technologies manager. She can be reached at 760-9400 x 116 or via email at jen@charlestonrealtors.com

From the CTAR website:

Jennifer's duties consists of network administration and support of technical hardware and software. She also plans upgrades, supports and maintains software for the Association. Jennifer oversees administration for internet-based member services and administers changes to ctarMLS website. She serves as the liason for all technical and MLS vendors, as well as the MLS user groups

 

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