activerain: Unfortunate outages (no, not ActiveRain) - 07/29/08 11:53 PM
I was just reading Todd Clark's post Forced withdrawals from ActiveRain suck! - R.I.P. Henry (Members Only) and it reminded me of something that happened Sunday night that is fairly amusing in retrospect. I'm sure me real-time Twitter posts on it were fairly amusing especially since it was me typing into … (13 comments)
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activerain: Matthew McConaughey's little brother is in the house - 07/29/08 06:32 PM
One of our developers Jorgen Hahn (aka Matthew McConaughey's little bro, aka the guy who fixed spellcheck) and the developer who did and will be doing most of the work on "New Localism" is now up visiting the ActiveRain offices. The resemblance to Mr. McConaughey isn't quite a striking now that … (19 comments)
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activerain: Seeing ActiveRain members in a whole new light - 07/27/08 04:21 PM
Now that people are "recovering" from the Inman Connect/Bloggers Connect conference this last week in San Francisco, all the pictures are making it up onto Flickr and other photo sharing sites. Literally everyone there had a camera or other photo capture device. So, here's your chance to see many ActiveRain members … (11 comments)
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activerain: Finally broke down and joined Twitter - 07/25/08 03:57 PM
Somewhat ironically given my background with technology tend not to be a bleeding edge adopter. Most people I know have more electronic gadgets on them at anyone time than I have in my whole house. I sent my first text message EVER when I broke down and got an iPhone about … (28 comments)
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activerain: Blow out traffic on ActiveRain.com - 02/02/08 01:32 AM
I've been browsing through our web server statistics from the ActiveRain.com site, and wow...
Not only did we have our first day ever with over 50k unique visitors last week but we've now had five of them in a row, just missing 60k visitors by a hair on Tuesday. We've also also … (19 comments)
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activerain: More on the referral exchange - 07/25/07 07:01 PM
Yesterday we launched a major new piece to ActiveRain that we've had in planning for quite a while. The Referral Exchange provides and hub to assist members in the process of referring business to one another.
I hear all the time from members that ActiveRain already provides one of the … (58 comments)
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activerain: Hurray for the moderators - 02/20/07 03:14 PM
I just wanted to give a thank you to a couple of ActiveRain members that have been helping us out during the past couple weeks with moderating and featuring posts. It takes some dedication to read through as many posts as we get each day on ActiveRain. Trust me, I did … (39 comments)
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activerain: Brad Inman lets the cat out of the bag - 01/09/07 12:56 AM
Today at the Inman Connect conference, ActiveRain and in particular our upcoming real estate portal Localism got a huge boost, thanks to Brad Inman. During his opening speech Brad segwayed into how online, user generated content, particularly at the local level is beginning to fill major gaps in the home buying process. He specifically mentioned how this community … (56 comments)
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activerain: Breath, step back and take in the big picture - 01/08/07 01:45 AM
The title of this post is something that I should take to heart myself. I've had a way too many sleepless nights lately, tonight being one of them, stressing over my creation ActiveRain. When I get caught up in the details things can be overwelming but when I look at the … (68 comments)
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activerain: Looks like ActiveRain got a anniversary present - 11/27/06 10:13 PM
As I mentioned yesterday it was just ActiveRain's six month anniversary. It looks like Google provided a nice little present. A minor update happened sometime in the last couple days and we started to climb up in the ranking for some competitive keyterms terms. Not the major jump I'm expecting sometime in the next … (17 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain turns 6 months old today - 11/26/06 07:34 PM
It's official, today is the ActiveRain Real Estate Network's six month anniversary. We launched the network way back on May 26th, 2006. Back then we were barely more that a glorifiied real estate directory with basic scoring system. There was no bloging, forums or community. It's been pretty amazing how far things have progressed … (59 comments)
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activerain: Speaking at Real Estate Connect NYC - 11/24/06 01:19 PM
It looks like Inman News recently updated their information on the Inman Real Estate Connect NYC conference. I feel lucky to have been invited to speak on the subject "How Can Social Networking Lift Real Estate?" Also on the social networking panel will be Craig Newmark (founder of CraigsList), Niki Scevak (CEO of … (33 comments)
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activerain: A vendors guide to ActiveRain - 11/04/06 04:22 PM
Many people may have noticed we have several vendors of various products/services here on ActiveRain. For example we have several that have been active contributors to this community such as:
Advanced Access - Web site provider
Bill French - Consultant MyST Technology Partners, Inc.
Mary McKnight - Blogging technology and consulting
Rodney Rumford - Real Estate Buzz Box
Barry … (24 comments)
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activerain: Correlation between points and agent quality - 11/02/06 01:38 PM
A couple days ago Donna Harris made a post (members only) about how she had picked up a new client from ActiveRain. The client was looking for an agent and figured that since she was ranked #1 in Texas in terms of points that she must know what she was talking about. … (12 comments)
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activerain: Categorizing posts for the consumer audience - 10/31/06 09:01 PM
As I mentioned in a previous blog post "The consumer connection" we are beginning to find new ways to target content at the consumer audience and ultimately drive more business to our members. Central to this effort is being able to properly categorize consumer oriented posts regionally. These consumer oriented posts … (23 comments)
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activerain: The consumer connection - 10/31/06 08:37 PM
As a home buyer myself, I found it extremely frustrating to the search the Internet for real estate information. Due to the proliferation of IDX style home searches it has now become easy to find home listings. And, of course there is no shortage of sites promising to provide me with the value … (8 comments)
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activerain: Inman news article uses ActiveRain as a source (again...) - 10/30/06 04:18 PM
Caleb, just forwarded me a link to an article titles "What to do when buyers won't make a move" (registration may be required) Like several recent articles, Inman news has used ActiveRain members as sources. In fact many members will probably recognize all 3 pictures in the article, as AR members. Inman is … (6 comments)
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activerain: The excitement is brewing - 10/27/06 08:00 PM
This morning I got back from a quick, two day trip down to San Francisco. It was one of those wirlwind affairs trying to meet with a lot of different people in a short amount of time. There is definetly a strong buzz growing in the industry about what is happening here … (17 comments)
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activerain: The dragon has been slain (I hope...) - 10/09/06 10:50 PM
I think (fingers crossed) we've finally solved the 500 errors that had been plaguing this site throughout the weekend and today. These last couple days I have spent way, way too many hours staring at a computer screen going line by line through server log files (Ben please come back...)
I was … (23 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain as an interesting experiment in software development - 09/21/06 01:09 AM
One of the more interesting aspects of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network has been the very non-traditional (even for the Internet world) approach that we've taken to developing the technology infrastructure behind it. Some of you may or may not know this but my background prior to co-founding ActiveRain, two and … (9 comments)
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