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Re: Real Bird Introduces New Feature: RealBird Virtual Tour

realbird — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:46:40 -0000

For sale listings are the properties published on RealBird (free), the yellow pages are agents, brokers, lenders, stagers etc. from RealBird ($89/year membership level) and home valuation is powered by Zillow.

We also have a private labeled, experimental version of this, where RealBird members can get their own version with their photo and contact information on the top, plus all click-throughs to the listing sites result in a co-branded version of the property website. http://www.realbird.com/YellowPages-Private-Lab...

Using the example on the page above, you can see the private labeled SearchOnMaps and clicking on any listing will show the co-branded property website.

Thanks for asking :)

Re: Real Bird Introduces New Feature: RealBird Virtual Tour

VladZablotskyy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:35:13 -0000

Ok then, the question I have for you can probably be very useful to those who find this thread then.

Does http://www.searchonmaps.com/ integrates the data from RealBird?

Re: Real Bird Introduces New Feature: RealBird Virtual Tour

realbird — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:30:05 -0000

We launched it a year ago, together with the free property website and syndication services.

Re: Real Bird Introduces New Feature: RealBird Virtual Tour

VladZablotskyy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:26:42 -0000

Zoltan,

Thanks for explanation about sharing listings from RealBird Virtual Tours on blogs like WordPress. I still think your widgets have great potential as far as viral marketing is concerned.

Quick question. When did you guys launched http://www.searchonmaps.com/ ? Somehow I missed it. I would like to ask you few questions about it in private if you don't mind.

Re: Real Bird Introduces New Feature: RealBird Virtual Tour

realbird — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:19:24 -0000

Yep, the trackback was there waiting for approval. Sorry. It is now approved. The ShareThis based posting to wordpress does not result in the same widget as the one you featured before. We use the technology from ShareThis mostly for social bookmarking and sharing and we will have to add the way to grab the corresponding widget just like you suggested, with a copy and paste. Thanks again for the suggestion.

Re: Real Bird Introduces New Feature: RealBird Virtual Tour

VladZablotskyy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:31:35 -0000

I think the "copy and paste" is always good alternative. I am actually going to try a post on of the featured listing on a "test blog", just to test how the process works.

Speaking of visiting your blog, I am actually subscribed to your blog so even if you don't see my face on on the MyBlobLog widget, I am still watching you lol.....

On a serious note. I have pinged your post, yet I do not see the trackback. It can be that that my trachback was flagged. Can you look in to it? Thanks.

Re: Real Bird Introduces New Feature: RealBird Virtual Tour

realbird — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:07:35 -0000

Vlad, Thanks for the coverage. I noticed that you visited our blog and was just about to email you :) Your points are well taken. I look into the image load speed. The source for those images are the same as the one used for the free service so they should have identical speed on both user interface (good or bad, but equal)

The main value proposition of this add-on is to create a virtual tour view of the listing information entered into RealBird and make it MLS-friendly, that is, unbranded for IDX distribution. (The UI focuses on large photo shows and neighborhood tours through Google StreetView)

All the features are left intact in the free service so the widget you mentioned with sharing options are available still for free. The ShareThis sharing on the branded virtual tour do allow posting it to your blog, and I agree that it's a turn off when it asks for your username and password, even though we, at RealBird, will never see it.

How about adding an option so that users can grab the same code from the virtual tour (copy & paste) as the one provided by the listing widget. Something like, "Grab this listing as a widget" or similar and excluding the "Post to Wordpress" feature which might be confusing in terms of privacy implication?

Thanks for the idea Vlad. Very helpful indeed, we'll implement it soon.

-- Zoltan

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:15:24 -0000

Just got back to my Linux. That whiteout is is still here, but I will be upgrading to a FF 3.0 tomorrow so maybe that will fix it. I would not worry about it too much. Unless of course you have many visitors using Linux.

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

realbird — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:09:56 -0000

Great Vlad. I'll be reading your blog ongoing. Good stuff.

-- Zoltan

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

wharriman — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:16:02 -0000

Thanks, I really appreciate that! I just started it about 3 weeks ago and have been trying hard to keep it current and relevant. We don't Have a lot of readers yet, but hopefully with the help of other bloggers like Vlad, we'll see some steady improvement!

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:56:03 -0000

My pleasure. This conversation is a breath of fresh air for a change. ;)

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

realbird — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:50:48 -0000

Wayne, Nice blog you got there !

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

realbird — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:45:59 -0000

Wayne, Happy you like our service. Many of our members are using multiple overlapping providers because of different feature set. I suspect, in the near future, us, vendors will extend into different directions with even more specialized offerings now that the basics are covered. Stay tuned, more RB features and products are coming

E.g. http://activerain.com/blogsview/455028/ActiveRa...

Vlad, thanks for hosting this conversation.

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

realbird — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:41:49 -0000

Thanks Vlad !

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:39:02 -0000

I think the Googe search API is causing some problems. That or AJAX
associated with it might be at fault. Oh well, I guess I just will have to
use good old local search ....

I really like what you are doing with RealBird.com. Nice concept. Great that
you have a free account for those who might want to test drive your
services.

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

realbird — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:32:09 -0000

Thanks for the browser details. I do not have any problem viewing your site. Nice and fast

-- Zoltan

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:32:02 -0000

The widgets on typepad look fine, again I am on Mac right now. I will let
you know if I notice something strange Linux. I barely use Windows

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:27:02 -0000

Zoltan,

I am viewing the page on a Mac (OS 10.5.2) in Firefox. It looks fine now.
The snapshot I took on Linux (Unbuntu Gusty to be exact).

I just tried to view it in Windows but the browser froze.... Do you have an
issue viewing my website???

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

realbird — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:14:21 -0000

Vlad, Checking it out ! Thanks for the screenshot. That's helpful.

What FF version are you using on which OS platform ?

My primary browser is FireFox 2.0.0.13 on XP SP2 and do not see this problem myself. We support FF 1.5+, IE 6+ and Safari 2+ both on XP and Mac for most of our interfaces. We'll have to look into this.

I post some screen shots myself with the next comment. Could you see whether http://realbird.typepad.com has the same problem in your browser? The top post at the time of writing this has 2 samples of similar widgets.

Thanks a lot again for finding this !

-- Zoltan

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:47:47 -0000

Oops,

I guess I can't embed the image in the comments with Disqus. Here is that snapshot:

http://www.go-beyond-mls.com/realbird.png

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:44:41 -0000

Zoltan,

There is room for improvement for your widget. I am not sure if you have ever had a chance to view the widget while browsing in Fire Fox.... Take a look at the snapshot below:
<img src="http://www.go-beyond-mls.com/realbird.png" />

It is the same on other blogs. But if you click "get & share" and then click "cancel" that whiteout goes away. I it's difficult to tell what is causing this. I am sure you have some good programmers to fix it. ;)

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

realbird — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:51:44 -0000

Sure will ! Thanks.

-- Zoltan

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:20:19 -0000

Thanks, for stopping by. Don't hesitate to drop me an e-mail if you were to release new features! ;)

Re: RealBird.com- Viral Marketing Widget For Real Estate Agents

realbird — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:17:28 -0000

Right on the mark ! Great post.

-- Zoltan
www.RealBird.com