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Vancouver real estate agent, blogger and friend of mine Larry Yatkowsky was mentionned in the Globe and Mail's Report on Business yesterday.Congratulations Larry! Larry is a great writer, go and check out his blog here. Matthew Collinge: Vancouver REALTOR®

A meme is sort of like a blog chain letter. The idea is that you answer a series of questions and then pass the questions along to another group of people. I had never received a meme before, but was "lucky" enough to be meme'd by Vancouver REALTOR Larry Yatkowsky of Yatters Matters. This meme was started by Mary McKnight of rss ...

Miss604 is one of Vancouver's most well known bloggers. Despite the common "604" in our blog names Miss604 (Rebecca) and I had not met until very recently. Incidentally, we also do not know Chad Kroeger of 604 Records (and of course Nickelback) fame. Nonetheless a post of mine, What Is This Picture Selling, sparked Miss604's ...

I have been working on this blog of about a year now and pretty early on Google graced me with a PageRank (or "PR" for short) of 1!!! It is not much obviously, but at least they noticed I was out there. Then 6 months ago, or so, my handy Google toolbar PageRank meter showed a blank little bar where my little bit of green used to me. I ...

So there was a lunar eclipse the other day. I missed it, but my blog buddy and great Saskatoon REALTOR® Norm Fisher took some great pics of the eclipse there in Saskatoon. Tonight is the Vancouver Blogger Meetup. It is being held right after the first day of Northern Voice, which I am sadly missing. This will be my first Van. Blogger Meetup ...

Yesterday I wrote the 200th post on the 604homesblog!!! and I didn't even notice until I look at my post list this morning. Today I am off to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver's 2008 Conference. I'll report back on the seminars later today or tomorrow. There is one on Vancouver real estate and the impact of the Olympics ...

Okay this has nothing to do with Vancouver real estate other than that you probably search for Vancouver real estate on your computer. And yes your Mac is no better than a PC. They are both carbon pigs. CBC Radio's tech program Spark had an interview this morning with Bill St. Arnaud (he is Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc., ...

I am excited to announce that I have created a blog about the False Creek neighbourhood of Vancouver. The blog is called the False Creek Comet and will focus less on real estate related stories and more on neighbourhood news, events, etc. Only a few post up there so far. I welcome your story ...

What the ----- is Twitter you may be wondering? Good question? According to Twitter it is "... for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing." You can get updates by text mesage (SMS) on your mobile phone or check out my Twitter webpage. I will twitter-ing on what I am up both ...

I will start this Fun Friday post off with some gratuitous efforts to win Miss604's bloggisversary contest. I only started reading Miss604's blog a couple of months ago, but its really a great one and she has been at it for four years now. To celebrate she is having a contest and to win I have to link to her blog (check) and a few ...