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Been way too swamped with a consulting project lately and haven’t had a chance to blog much (or send out my weekly emails).
However, that doesn’t mean interesting things haven’t been happening.   Here’s just a sliver of the things that have crossed my path recently:

Brendan gets $3M in funding for MyFrontSteps!  A huge, public [...]

After interviewing Marty last week, I thought it would be interesting to turn to Alex Chang (CEO of Roost) in order to get the perspective from someone entering the real estate search space from a different place in terms of timing, funding and resources…
I first met Alex while we he was setting up shop at [...]

… and I really like the implementation. Between allowing multiple terms, providing the check-boxes and allowing users to cancel any given term, there’s all the right options packed into such a simple tool.

(h/t to Matt)

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…the Zillow machine, but I seriously doubt it…
I 100% agree that someone could seriously improve on the existing CRM products for agents… During our after-lunch conversation this past week, I mentioned that if Trulia really wants to reach marketing dominance some day, they should offer a free, high-quality CRM to agents. [...]

I’m somewhat of a night owl, so I thought I’d have no problem waiting out the U.S. launch of the UK site DotHomes. But it is getting pretty late and the U.S. version of the site still hasn’t gone live.
However, TechCrunchUK published their story (with the not so promising comment: “The question, [...]

Roost.com is a real estate start-up that just launched their real estate search site….
I had a chance to meet the Roost.com team at NAR in Vegas and was impressed with them… so I was downright excited when they offered to give me a preview of their site at RE Connect (see comment #1).
During my conversation [...]