visitors from planet earth…
I can tell from the number of hits that these list of 10 posts are popular, but they don’t seem to generate much conversation. 
Nonetheless, I’ll keep writing them as long as I’m enjoying myself! 
- Christine gives her own top 10 recent stories. I love it!
- And Cheryl gives a list of 10 or is 12, maybe 13 great blogs. She’s building up a really nice blog, but then again, I’m partial to stories about the Eagle Rock area.
- On the subject of favorite websites, I’m partial to the seriously cool wiki technology behind WetPaint (This is the read/write web or Web2.0). To get an idea of how useful their site can be, I recently set up a wishlist for all of the items that were requested by my daughter’s teacher for the start of her first grade. Now any of the parents in the class can easily see what items that still need to be purchased and if they decide to buy/donate the item, they can let everyone else know by adding a “purchased” next to the item. This is so much easier for everyone involved than the slew of emails and half-updated word documents that were floating around. (Full Disclosure: Wetpaint sent me some free swag (a hat and a t-shirt), but that was only after I showed some definite interest in their product to one of their founders)
- [photopress:crazy_lazyBETA.png,full,alignright]Talking web2.0, I was contacted from the same earth aliens as Greg, but unlike him, I had no luck whatsoever with the product. I could download a file (as long as I limited the data to 1 mile radius around a zip), but couldn’t get it to display anything in Google Earth… Nonetheless, you know someone has as sense of humor when they use the Web2.0 logo creator to create their logo.
- Looking at the earth put me in a green mood, and reminded me of this article by David Whitten where he’s briefly describes a recent green home tour he took. I should definitely do some more research on green home technology.
- Speaking of green, Osman mentions the ecobroker certification for agents who want to be “equipped with additional energy and environmental information and tools that help them provide added value to all of their real estate transactions.” I’m scared to think what the Tomato might throw at this certification.
- Is Marlow aware of the Elvis Impersonation DVD mentioned by Will Hicks out of Memphis?
- Mike insists on being interesting: “Don’t blame the housing bubble on a couple years of cheap interest rates. Rather demographics, technology, and financial market innovation have converged to give us a long boom.“
- Mike has a somewhat unfair data advantage, but I think agents like Osman, Lisa, and Merv do a great job putting context around local numbers.
- I’m looking to add lesser-known real estate blogs to my feed reader. If you are not already listed in my wiki directory, and you are an active real estate blogger writing link-worthy content, let me know by leaving a comment below.
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With Agent Earth, I didn’t work anything larger than 1 mile radius, so maybe I’m the fool. If the .kml files have a second .xml extension, chop that off. Then you can drag and drop onto Google Earth. Seamless on WinTel, which no Mac user should ever have to say.
These lists of 10 rock. I may never catch up.
The weird part is that I was able to get the file in its .kml state and I even opened it (with notepad) to see that there was data inside. When I would load the file in Google Earth, it would bring me to the correct area, but would be void of data. I tried this for several zipcodes including one of the example ones they listed below the search box… but no luck. I think I’m just going to live vicariously through your experience with these earth aliens.
Hey, thanks for the mention!
I’m not doing any good, but one of our agents (I think) does quite well, and updates it frequantly. Do you think you can add this blog http://www.myrtlebeachrealestatenews.com, Dustin?
I tried out your Google Agent Earht. It just seems to take a moment for the properties laod in Earth. I gave ait a minute or two and they all appeared. You also have to select the properties types to display etc
What WV said: You have to go into the folders at the left and click on particular property types to see results. I’m taking it as a proof of method at this point. We’ll see how it goes from here.
MUCH BETTER!
And so obvious in retrospect. I just needed to click on the check boxes.
I’m not sure why, but I don’t remember needing to do that with other KML files.
[...] Here’s a fun site to play with over the weekend: Dustin and Greg both point us to Agent Earth. Regular readers of this blog will know I’m a big fan of Google Earth. I love the idea of a property search conducted in a 3D environment. [...]
I do wish to point out that our beloved Caffeinated / RCG Search, has had Google earth feeds of MLS searches since we went live at the beginning of the year.
I tried Agent Earth, and I was unimpressed.
Thanks for the mention!!
[...] I got a little link love from the number one real estate blog in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide. It’s a small mention, but their heart is large. [...]
Thanks for the link love. We love our Elvis out here.
Here’s a couple other Memphis Real Estate blogs for your wiki, as requested…
http://www.emetrocommercial.blogspot.com and http://www.memphispropertysearch.blogspot.com
Lots of Elvis talk on my blog recently due to the Elvis week festivities. Thanks for the mention! -Cameron
http://memphispropertysearch.blogspot.com
I made it out to Elvis week once and I definitely loved the experience! Memphis is definitely a great place to play!
How strange is it that Elvis week commemorates his death? Not his birthday or his first hit record, but the day/week he was found dead. I doubt it’s for us to understand.