Yahoo COO says the future of the web will be….

Automated Follow-ups with CallFlakes

What do you usually do after you make a phone call?  Make a note or create an appointment?  Follow-up with an email?  Or is there just too much tapping and selecting involved to bother? If you’re an Android user, you can automate after call activities with CallFlakes.  The app immediately pops up after each call (including missed calls) giving you six options: Text Reminder Email Call Appointment Share One tap launches any of those functions so you can make notes, schedule appointments/calls …

Honest Buildings: A Social Network for Building Data

Honest Buildings helps real estate professionals discover building information, uncover the companies for a wide variety of industry-related needs and highlights the service providers and organizations. Speaking at a recent VERGE event, Riggs Kubiak, CEO with Honest Buildings, sees a massive opportunity to connect buildings owners through a hyper-connected network to make for sustainable cities. Riggs starts to talk about Honest Buildings specifically beginning 7:43 into the above video. At abou…

Stop paying $1000s for aerials, there’s an app for that…

As flight technology becomes more advanced and affordable, it will begin to put a dent in the pockets of the aerial photographers I used to pay $1000s to shoot custom aerials. You can actually control an AR.Drone from any Android or iPhone device. Here is the app’s description on iTunes: Discover and pilot the Parrot AR.Drone and AR.Drone 2.0 from Parrot using the new application, AR.FreeFlight 2.2. INTUITIVE – Download AR.FreeFlight 2.2, the free control application, and you are ready to fly! …

When did media get to be such a pain in the ass?

A Case for Panoramic CRE Space Tours

This post was originally a comment I submitted on CREvation and Startups, in response to a post titled, “Virtual Tours – Good or Bad Idea? — The CRE App Review has regularly posted reviews on mobile pano apps like TourWrist, iPhone’s iSight, Android’s Photo Sphere and Microsoft’s Photosynth and truly believe that it this type of media is the next step in CRE photography. I am going to make the infamous comparison of residential vs. commercial real estate technology adoption…. Surprise! Resident…

Bo Barron: What does 2013 have in store for CRE?

Here is Bo Barron’s take on what the 2013 CRE tech landscape will look like. There are some great nuggets here… 1. What CRE tech niche will be ripe for disruption or improvement in 2013? Mobile is it. There is nothing in the same ball park. The proliferation of high speed 4G and everyone under having an iPad (1,2,3,4,mini) or a smart pad that can surf the web make it crucial that CRE advisors take notice. We have to optimize our content for mobile users. I think more than half of web page hits…

Chris Clark: What does 2013 have in store for CRE?

We posed four questions to the one and only Chris Clark (aka CREoutsider) to get her take on 2013. Buckle your seatbelt… What CRE tech niche will be ripe for disruption or improvement in 2013? My pick is electronic transactions. Whether it’s OSCRE adopted standards or proprietary ones, large companies, REITS, banks, global firms…they have to maintain strict control over their transactions and communications. Those CRE portals are fine for the average transaction but not for companies that have…

Patrick Braswell: What does 2013 have in store for CRE

As we continue our CRE tech prediction series for 2013, we pose the same four questions to Patrick Braswell. In addition to being one of our favorite commercial real estate bloggers, Patrick is the founder of Ten Eight, one of the most innovative apps CRE Apps has reviewed in the last 12 months. My 2013 CRE Tech Predictions: Well, I think that it is safe to say that 2012 was the year of online search startups. There were three significant ones that launched: 42 Floors, OfficeSpace.com, and The S…

Are paywalls going to be new normal in media?