Posts Tagged ‘uk’
Flickr gives you another reason to build your own property website.
Written by Mike Carter on August 23, 2008 – 12:18 pm -Flickr is one of my favorite online services. If you don’t know what it is, basically it’s one of the biggest photo websites online, owned by Yahoo. I’ve been a customer for over 3 years and it costs be approximately $30/year.
They’ve just released an upgraded web-tool, called an embedded slide-show. It basically allows you to embed a group of photos (or videos) as a slide-show into your own website. It should be interesting to the UK property agent because most of the property websites out there have some type of photo gallery or video gallery of properties.
So my question to you is this: Why are you paying expensive web-development companies to develop something that you should be able to get for free? If the internet teaches us anything about the Web 2.0 movement it is this:
Don’t re-invent the wheel (and pay for that wheel) when you can probably get it straight from the innovators at a much reduced cost.
In this case, that innovator is Flickr and the cost for having your photos in a brilliant photo gallery slide-show just went to 15 pounds per year. Did you pay more for yours? 
Isle of Wight Homes blogging since ‘06
Written by Mike Carter on August 18, 2008 – 11:02 am -The current list of blogging estate agents has reached three. Blogging since March 2006, Simon Broadhead, director at Isle of Wight Homes is the rightful owner of the title of oldest UK agent blog.
London-based Chard now blogging.
Written by Mike Carter on August 14, 2008 – 2:48 pm -In an amazing turn of events (that we hope we’re influenced), leading estate agent Chard is now blogging about the property market. According to our databases that makes two in the UK :
If you know of any other agents starting to embrace the blogosphere, we’d love to hear from you.
Is propertyfinder.com being taken over by MSN?
Written by Mike Carter on August 7, 2008 – 3:30 pm -Two senior executives from MSN have now been appointed to help run operations over at PropertyFinder.com. Today they announced Natalie Mead as marketing and products director and Gillian Kent as CEO this past January.
And with the Chief Executive of REA, Simon Baker being let go as well, management change is running fast and furious over at REA/PropertyFinder.
To quote Ms Mead -
“I am excited to be joining propertyfinder at such an interesting time. The UK property portal market is ready for a shake up.”
Let’s hope that her version of a “shake-up” isn’t just adding some ducks to the homepage and changing the colours of the propertyfinder website. That definitely won’t cut it
