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Just about every national commercial real estate brokerage firm publishes some type of quarterly market report, normally in a boring PDF format. And at the end of each quarter, you’ve either got to wait for an email or visit the broker’s website to download their newest report. Imagine downloading an app which would not only [...]
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Second only to commercial real estate’s addiction to the fax machine, is the construction industry’s addiction to blueprints… Enter PlanGrid. From a recent TechCrunch article: PlanGrid is a cloud-based service that delivers blueprints as PDFs directly on the tablet; then people working in the field can use these instead of paper-based versions. When a modification needs to be [...]
Continue Reading →SnapGuide is a clever iPhone app that makes creating a “how to” guide simple. Using a template like interface, you add titles, text, photos or video snippets and with a few more clicks, create your guide. Reorganize elements by dragging them to their new location. Then publish it on the SnapGuide site, share it [...]
Continue Reading →HelloFax allows users to Throw away their fax machine! Tell me more, you say? We’ll let HelloFax do the explaining: You want to go digital, but ancient legislation and old regulations require that you fax. We let you go paperless, while also letting you work with old technology. No need for expensive software, desktop solutions, [...]
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I continue to struggle with how Augmented Reality Applications can benefit the commercial real estate industry. TechCrunch recently pinned an article on MagicPlan 2.0, in which they commented: Augmented reality isn’t always totally pointless. Sorry if you think it’s hugely useful to see an augmented view of tweets around you just by holding up your [...]
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The $860 million Loopnet/Costar merger made headlines about this time last year; a deal which is yet to close. Meanwhile, some folks are not standing idly by. As Costar and Loopnet spend millions of dollars trying to convince the FTC that the merger is not anti-competitive, the market continues to evolve. A Little Background Both [...]
Continue Reading →How would you like to be able to run full versions of Microsoft Office on your Apple or Android tablet? Turns out you can with OnLive Desktop. Sign up for a free account at OnLive, download the app to your device, then sign in. You’ll see what looks like a standard Windows 7 desktop with [...]
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When TechCrunch runs a piece on Real Estate, you know techies are taking aim. In this piece, Jacob Mullins (a Senior Associate with Shasta Ventures) states: Over the past months I’ve been mentally mulling over the profundity of Real Estate. Throughout history, real estate has been the most coveted, fought-over, and valuable resource to humanity. Entire [...]
Continue Reading →And the winner is….. DropBox with 11 votes. It appears simple is better when it comes to document storage and sharing. One surprise for me was that Loopnet Mobile was not even in the top 5, even though Loopnet is so widely used, it appears their mobile app is not. I even think Loopnet’s mobile [...]
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Trade Area Systems (TAS) has one of the most robust mobile Trade Area mapping and research applications in today’s marketplace. What does TAS Mobile do? From the company’s product description: TAS Mobile on the iPad gives you mapping, demographic reports, aerials and bird-eye imagery as well as access to you company’s TAS Unity knowledge-base wherever [...]
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