I can’t help it, I just feel the need to link to Chicago Northwest Suburbs Real Estate.  Silly active rain people.

I can’t sum it up as well as Chris.  Check his hilarious article and observations about Lamborghini’s website.

Ok ok ok.  Not what you’d think but I had a good time, so it’s worth it.  Last night I sent a tweet saying “Hey, meet us for a drink and I’ll talk about ya” and a couple showed up. A friend named Jim who’s a Calgary real estate agent showed his desire too, but the drive wouldn’t allow it.

Honestly, if you haven’t had a drink with Jaz then you haven’t lived.  Mike, you understand.

Pat runs a gooming trailer business and was nice enough to play along and another, Narrance, who doesn’t have a site but watched twitter also joined. Not bad, that kept us out later than usualy.  Anywhay, I may just make a habit of this.  So next Friday take me up on it – could be fun.

I’m announcing, officially, that Chris is now freelancing. For those that don’t know who I’m talking about, Chris is the talent behind any of the images I’ve used that were actually any good.

I know I’m not an artist and Chris has been the guy that works on client sites for me.  He’s a good guy and thinks he’ll do well on his own (I know he will) so I’d like to let everyone know that he’s a free Read the rest of this entry »

I have a lot of excess clips from testing the FLIP HD for an upcoming video blog.  Instead of dumping it, here is some with various lighting.  I tried it from within a car.  This seams to be where the Flip suffers – no image stabilization.

Below is the result.

Jaz showed me MyHeritage where she had her photo scanned and compared to celebrities.  She’s pretty, so the results would be too, that makes sense.

Hers came back with a pattern that mixes Josie Maran, Kate Beckinsale, Fiona Xie, Brooke Burns and Kristin Davis.  Not bad.

Then I did mine….  now I have a complex, or two, or three….

Rich media such as as video on a website is something we all want, don’t you?  But quality equipment usually doesn’t lend itself to an amateur.

The Flip Mino HD is most likely the Read the rest of this entry »

Taking a break from the single digit temperatures in Denver and Christmas shopping I met a realtor friend at my usual office – Starbucks.

I met him at a real estate conference earlier this year in Canada not knowing he lived in Denver.  I hope Brian comes by more often – the free wi-fi and shared goals of increasing our web presence should be enough.

Merry Christmas, Brian -I hope your real estate business in Denver takes off!

Yes, I say Christmas.

Here are my Christmas gift recommendations this year.  They span several genres and I wouldn’t recommend them if I weren’t a happy customer myself.

Feet Pajamas! No matter how macho you are, you know you want them.  It’s 3 degrees as I write this and yes, I’m wearing flannel feet pajamas.

Apple MacBook – Best laptop out there that fits in your lap while having ample power.  Best of all, it’s a Mac.

SandiCast Dogs – Have a dog or love someone who does?  The little statues are very lifelike.  I keep one on my desk and serves as a reminder to walk the little guy when I get hyper-focused on projects.

Stolen Lives – This book by John Sileo gives you what’s needed to protect your identity.  John’s a good guy and considered an expert on Identity theft world-wide.

The Roush Charger – Not for everyone, first they need a Mustang. It’s a twin-root super charger and doesn’t void your car’s warranty while boosting to 510 hp and 500 torque! Everything needed to chew up Corvettes and Porsches. (change your gear set if you use this)  Sometime ricers aren’t enough.

The iPhone Webapp Template – An seo’s best bang for buck.  Get an Apple link AND provide great usefulness.  Ok, this one is mine, but it’s still a great idea:)

I wrote about an seo fraud in Denver several months back.  I was thinking about placing a video there about the seo speaker that was selling his inept seo services on that post admitting to a fraud.

I’m writing this post to place another web property out there to use if this professional speaker may defraud another of his seo “clients” by using my name.

Everyone, thanks for your patience with me for posting such silly little things once in a while, but I must do it.

I do know the person I am hinting at does read my blog.  I suggest you retire from seo and return from whence you came.

I gave him fair warning, the grace is gone.

I’ve written a few posts about the MLS and have found myself ranking for Denver MLS in search engines, about page two (never written about that one).  I’m simply writing this little post to see how competitive the result is in the Denver area.

Real estate is typically pretty competitive, and the top results are a combination of net savvy realtors and retained seo’s working on the real estate site.

So, I want to see where this blog ends up when it isn’t really a real estate site, just has a few posts about the MLS, and not the one in Denver.  I’ll start with this base article and see what I can do externally as a test.  In a month or so I’ll have learned some things.

A friend of mine in Louisville sent me a video today that just had me rollin’ in laughter.  For anyone working on the net this will crack you up.  The number of little jokes, nerd humor, frustrations and client assumptions are amazing.  This poor guy can’t even play Halo without getting interrupted. Thanks Scott!