Realbird flies high

November 18, 2006

A few days ago, I had the pleasure of meeting the good folks at Realbird, the company that provides my MLS search solution.  They’re veterans of the real estate technology space, and it shows.  Their current offering is a neat, simple, no-frills Web 2.0 map-based MLS search, and they’ve put a lot of thought into the user interface and experience.

We were talking about how technology has changed dramatically in the last few years.  If they had tried to create something like Realbird in, say, 2003, they may well have needed five times more programmers, triple the time, and who knows how much more funding.  The downside of the greater ease of developing cool real estate applications these days, however, is that you have even more pressure to innovate, innovate, innovate, and to do so quickly because whatever edge you have can erode in a few short months.

And speaking of innovation, these guys have some really, really neat ideas they’ll be rolling out, ideas that will continue to change the way that real estate professionals and consumers interact with each other and with real estate itself.

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3 Responses to “Realbird flies high”

  1. A pre-Thanksgiving thought-feast: Blogtalk, techtalk, Zillowtalk — and the mysterious allure of ephemeral catastrophe . . . | BloodhoundBlog | The weblog of BloodhoundRealty.com in Phoenix, Arizona on November 21st, 2006 7:37 pm

    [...] Kevin Boer at Three Oceans Realty has maps! I am ambivalent about whether map searching actually does anything to sell houses, but it’s slicker than whale snot anyway. Kevin also has a real estate office in two boxes. [...]

  2. Dominique on November 22nd, 2006 12:59 am

    I think trulia and movoto did a better job of presenting a better user experience.

    I have a hard time taking a company seriously about “Web 2.0″ when html on their website doesn’t validate.

    No frills indeed. Needs a lot more work.

  3. Valium. on March 28th, 2007 11:36 pm

    Valium….

    Valium….

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