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2007
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I've been taking screen shots for the last couple days. Hoping to catch the magic 50,000. I missed it. But it was fun anyway:Wednesday 9/26/2007 5:00AM PDT: Wednesday 9/26/2007 5:10PM PDT: Thursday 9/27/2007 4:40AM PDT: Thursday 9/27/2007 4:45PM PDT: Friday 9/28/2007 5:45AM PDT: Friday 9/28/20...
09/28/2007
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I'm a nosey busybody. But everyone already knew that. I came across this on Inman's blog"ActiveRain, an online real estate blogging community and social network with about 47,000 members, has filed a lawsuit against property-search giant Move Inc. that seeks millions in damages and alleges tha...
09/27/2007
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Thanks to Carole Provenzle, I have rekindled an interest in Feng Shui. If fact, I even found a stash of Feng Shui books I'd bought a few years ago, never read back then, and hauled them off the shelf. This is the one I picked up first: Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life by Karen Rauch Carter, ...
09/25/2007
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If you haven't tried this before, it is an interesting little exercise:Google the address of one of your listings. Like this: For example, our listing at 5024 Lincoln yielded these results: Our vflyer postings show up in first and second postion, followed by our own Hotsheet blog, then Zillow, t...
09/23/2007
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Feedblitz turns your blog into an email newsletter, by grabbing each blog post and sending it out to your subscriber list as an email.Everyone following my foray into FeedBlitz, here are the basic steps in setting up a new newsletter:After creating your account, go to My Account, My Dashboard Und...
09/22/2007
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I have been so swamped with stuff-to-do in the offline world, I haven't had a good chance to work with Photomatix yet. But I figured most members would get a chuckle out of my first experiments. (This post started out as a comment-reply on an earlier post.)Lesson Number One: The positioning of...
09/20/2007
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A great thing about Active Rain is that I can use it as a testing ground for features I am considering for "outside blogs".Case in point: FeedBlitz. You'll notice I installed the FeedBlitz subscription widget in the right column column of my Active Rain Blog. Readers wanting to subscribe to th...
09/18/2007
We have maintained an email subscription "hotsheet" since about 1996, to announce new listings, price reductions, etc. There are a few hundred people on the subcriber list.We also have a "hotsheet" blog http://www.taylorhotsheet.com for the same purpose.I've been thinking of of using FeedBlitz ...
09/15/2007
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Wow. I mean, really, wow! Did I say Wow? I haven't got this excited over a piece of software for a long time. But, Bryce Mohan gave us a look at one of his secret weapons, Photomatix. I was going to write a Beginner's tutorial on using the HDR (High Dynamic Range) function in Photoshop CS3.B...
09/13/2007
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There's another aspect to tagging your posts that hasn't been discussed in detail yet. Tags aggregrate information written by many different authors. If you are thinking of tags in terms of your own SEO - your own self promotion - you may not have given this much thought. But if you are the...
09/05/2007
