Ellie Mirman from Ellie Mirman.com posted a great article about the rules for maximizing productivity of work teams.  I think there are some great lessons to be learned from a presentation from a blog called The Chief Happiness Officer. Working more than 40 hours leads to decreased productivity. You can get a short-term boost by working more hours, but the team will require a recovery period that counteracts the seeming short-term productivity boost.  Working on Sundays and evenings can be helpful in the short-term to provide support to a potential client, but the team will required to recover from long hours can [...]

AT&T announced a new program today to encourage better collaboration for building new generation mobile and wired broadband application. There could be interesting opportunities for the real estate industry to become part of building and deploying leading edge mobile technologies for real estate consumers. AT&T Announces Plans to Open Innovation Centers to Spur Development of New-Generation Mobile and Wired Broadband Applications, Devices Facilities to Support AT&T LTE Trials and Testing Beginning Later this Year AT&T Inc.* today announced plans to establish AT&T Innovation Centers to drive development of next-generation devices, applications and equipment that expand the capabilities of mobile and [...]

Every now and then, you see a company get acquired for an absurd amount of money and wonder why.  In this case, we know very little, but let me frame something. According to the WSJ, vark was founded in late 2007 by two former Google employees and raised $7.5 million in venture capital.  The company has about 90,000 subscribers (think MRIS, MRED and MLSListings). It lets users create their networks by importing contacts from their email accounts and social profiles like facebook.  It says its search engine considers people’s profiles, connections, people’s favorite things and location when matching questions with [...]

Our good friend Brian Larson posted an excellent piece yesterday, on RPR,  that shared the insights of a MLS CEO. I highly recommend you read this and add it to your growing list of information and questions about RPR.

MarketLinx, Inc.,  provider of information technology to the residential real estate industry and a member of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies, announced today that it has partnered with RealtyBid.com to offer an integrated online real estate auction tool to its MLXchangeTM, TEMPO® and InnoViaTM multiple listing service (MLS) customers.  Through the agreement, MarketLinx MLS users can easily upload listing data and photos to RealtyBid.com and start an online auction with just a few mouse clicks. […]