Real Bird Introduces New Feature: RealBird Virtual Tour

The RealBird Blog just announced new feature called RealBird Virtual Tour. RealBirds nifty widget allows real estate agents create a "mini-showcase" of their listings while offering an opportunity for viral marketing, and allowing bloggers or any webmasters to grab the code and feature the listings on their websites or blogs. The new feature ads Google Maps Street view to the lower par of the widget and comes at $9.99 per listing or $14.99 when purchased with a property domain name: The Google Maps of this version is unique in itself as it offers map view, satellite view, hybrid view, terrain view as well as Google Earth. Just taking a look at few of the featured listings, they need to be more optimized. The images are downloading rather slow even though I have a cable connection. The slow load may be caused by the scripts as well. Overall it is a nice addition to their product. The "branded virtual tours" offer users an opportunity to share the tours on variety of social networking websites as well as easy way to publish information to their blogs. Personally I would prefer to grab the code via "copy and paste" as it was the case with their former widget, since I do not like to give away the user name and the password to my blog. What do you think about this new feature? Originally posted on Go Beyond MLS.