I have a blog on Blogger where I attempt to explore the gap between the "knows" and the "knows-nots" with regard to technology and real estate.  I say real estate, but it really applies to any business that could benefit from using technology to its fullest extent.  Real estate just happens to be the one I'm most involved in right now as an investor.

While I'm relatively new to the real estate scene in comparison to some of my colleagues and mentors who have logged many more combat hours and I, I have had the benefit of serving in the technical trenches of the computing industry for more than 20 years.  Having participated in the growth of the World Wide Web from back in my days as an employee at Netscape, the company that brought the world browsers, I've seen much of the good, bad and ugly.

Back then, we used to worry about whether this Web thing would take off and whether people would actually use it.  And then when they did, we started to worry about whether the software would scale to handle it.  But even now, there are those who are still slow to adopt, and many who have look at it as a constant thorn in their side and can't decide if it's a help or a hindrance in their everyday business.

One of the reasons for this is most late adopters embraced the old model of Web practice -- known as Web 1.0 in some circles -- while the rest of the world moved on and adopted the newer Web 2.0 paradigm.

Visit my blog post where I discuss how we got to where we are and where we're going.  Any comments on that blog are always greatly appreciated.