Report from Realcomm (or "where are the blogs?")

I have only managed to find three reports from the Realcomm conference in Boston earlier this month.

One from founder Jim Young, where he states it to have been "the best ever".
Then an article from ITworld and one from eWeek.

Are you aware of any blogging about Realcomm 2007?
Trying to get an overview of what went on at Realcomm using blogs has been quite hard... to say a least. Have only found 2 (?) post about it.

A pre-post from one of the speakers, Marc Krejci.
One post from AdvantageWorks.

I assume it will be much easier to follow the upcoming Inman Connect SF 2007 conference. They even has a two day pre-conference for the bloggers. They also have LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter projects running.  Finally, they have a "10 things to do before Connect".

Needless to say, but it seems that the residential part of the industry is way ahead of the commercial part when it comes to being early adopters.

Raising the bar of web development

For anyone involved in web projects it's interesting to follow the development of services that are really raising the bar of what has been done before. I believe there are two interesting areas to follow right now; Web Office and Application Creation.

As a coincidence two different blogs today have put together overview of those.

Web Office
Those are the ones aiming to (in the long run) compete with Microsoft Office, for example Googles Docs & Spreadsheet and ZoHo. The Read and Write blog has a great overview in this post.

Application creation 
Not an application itself, rather a platform to build your own application without programming skills. Read more about it this post by the Techcrunch blog.

Visiting New York

 No matter what you do, there is always a need to look at your business from a different perspective. One way to do this, is to change environment and see how business is conducted elsewhere.

For this reason Datscha has spend a couple of days in New York meeting up with excellent people to hear their story and exchange experiences. It has been indeed rewarding and in the upcoming week I will write some posts about it.

It is also very rewarding to show the Datscha service to someone not used to doing business in Sweden since it normally 'blow their mind'. Firstly, due to the fact that so much information could be gathered about the property market. Secondly, their is no equivalent to a web-based DCF module over here.

And who doesn't enjoy such a positive reaction?   ;-)

Realcomm anounces the Digie Award winners

Earlier today the winners of the Realcomm "Digie Award" was announced. Jim Young and his team have once again narrowed down the winners in 19 categories. As always an impressive work. Add to that 4 "Digital Impact Awards".

You find the complete list here.

My side of the story
Since most of the winners (fair to say all) are unknown to someone in Sweden I've a hard time to comment on any of them. That  excludes the winner of "Most Innovative Technology - General" category, which is Microsoft windows Vista.

Since most of the winners (fair to say all) are unknown to someone in Sweden I've a hard time to comment on any of them. That  excludes the winner of "Most Innovative Technology - General" category, which is Microsoft windows Vista.

In my point, the most innovative has been the growth of Office 2.0 applications, like ThinkFree and Zoho, showing that the web could be used in a much more powerful way than most people believe. 

Realcomm
Realcomm is the event to visit if you are interested in the impact of IT in the real estate industry. Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the show this year (been there three times, for example in 2005). However, some 1 500 other did.

During the last year I have learned about the Inman Connect events (haven't visited any of them) and I my understanding is that the former is more on the commercial part of the industry, and the latter on the residential part.