You know, I really thought it would be interesting to test out microsofts ad center what with all the hype surrounding the BING search engine - but woulnd't you know it - I can't get the damned interface to work.

Now I might not be a certified genious, but I gotta tell ya, I certainly am not an idiot either. I have sat here for 20 mins trying to get the Microsoft Adcenter to accept my corporate credit card (and yes I know my address, and YES I CHECKED THE NUMBER)

It's no wonder Microsoft is always playing second fiddle, they can't even figure out how to take my money when I WANT to give it them.

I called your hotline to btw - very nice to let me push all those buttons just to hear a "we're sorry, our offices are closed" message - NICE!

Microsoft - I…

We have had several calls today from FMLS (Atlanta) subscribers complaining that their IDX through a company called "listingware" is showing an "image theft alert" image instead of the FMLS pictures.

First off all let me say that Real Estate Webmasters has absolutely nothing to do with Listing Ware, they are for all intents and purposes a competitor.

Next let me say that Real Estate Webmasters did NOT put those images up on your IDX or your website. We do not have access to your website, nor do we have access to Listing Ware's servers.

Protecting FMLS Intellectual property (your property)

What needs to be understood is that as FMLS vendors, it is our contractual responsibility "to protect" FMLS data (both listing content and images) from…

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We have 4 new programmers for this summer (all of which completed their practicum through VIU with us in the spring) and  they are chomping at the bit to challenge themselves on the REW production line. So I figure the easiest way to keep the new kids busy is to run a promo!

So here's the deal - IF you are willing to have us hand your project over to one of the new guys (they will naturally take longer to get it done than a seasoned programmer) and if you are willing to be patient with them as they perfect their client communication and production level skills - I will give you one heck of a discount.

How much of a discount? How about 50% - that's right - a 50% discount on approved items (as seen below)

Products that…

I just posted this as a comment on the NAR blog, but I thought that it probably deserved it's own post as it really should be directed at MIBOR and not NAR - basically we all know the change to the IDX verbiage will be passed it's just a matter of due dilligence (can't blame NAR for that I suppose) but it's also going to take time - all the while, we are stuck without indexable pages until this ruling passes (we being Paula Henry / Mike Taylor of http://www.reddoorindy.com and myself - yes, I consider myself part of the team)

So here is what I wrote on the NAR blog as a potential compromise - I would love to hear some comments from MIBOR members on this issue and I think everyone would like to see some good will and common sense prevail here (it would…

Many of you read over at Agent Genius about how MIBOR (The local board of Realtors in Indianapolis) has demanded that all IDX vendors stop Google and other search engines from spidering any page of a Realtors website that has IDX listings or any part of the data referencing listings (such as property descriptions, MLS #'s or addresses) - this is with the exception of just the agents own listings of course.

Naturally as one of the largest custom IDX vendor in the world we are more than concerned about this issue as should all Realtors as it has the potential to dramatically impact their ability to get their listings competitive exposure unless they go through a third party aggregator such as Realtor.com and pay through the nose for premium…

Ok I have been planning on introducing some of the new features of our soon to be released system for a while but being the perfectionist that I tend to be sometimes, I didn't want to start showing it off to much until it was nearly complete - I think that time has come as next week I will be finilizing my list of beta testers for this app - with final production release due July 31st corresponding with the second day of the REW Summit.

So let's get right to it - what does this bad boy look like, and what are some of the enhancements users can expect in the upgrade.

Yup that's it - ain't it purdy

It looks even better with lead data in it :) - So what exactly are you looking at here?

What did I add - what's new, what's cool, how does it work? Don't…

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Real Estate Webmasters turns 5 years old today! (April 9th 2009)

I keep sitting down to write a super long post all teary eyed about how awesome our members and customers have been over the last 5 years but honestly I am going to run out of birthday before I'm done - so I have decided to save that post for another day and just keep our Real Estate Webmasters 5th birthday promo post short and sweet -

THANK YOU!

To all of our members, to all of our staff, and especially to all of customers thank you for 5 great years.

It has been an amazing experience and we have learned so much from you all, and hopefully you have been able to learn a few things from us as well. Along the way we have developed a lot of friendships and…

Ok this just made me laugh. I was over at AR (for whatever reason I have no idea, it's not like I ever post there anymore) and there was yet another feature post "promoting active rain" - imagine that - kiss active rains ass to get on the homepage - wish I was a rainmaker.

In the article the poster writes:

"Ok I'll tell you a better reason to join Active Rain...  Active Rain gives you the power to advertise yourself anywhere on the internet.  The exposure you get from Active Rain is second to none.   I did an experiment.  For one week,  I posted about the Chicago Northwest Suburbs.  I think I wrote 3 or 4 posts with the key words Chicago Northwest Suburbs Real Estate.   Before that my website was nowhere to be found when you googled Chicago Northwest…