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No time to write much about it (I'll update this later), but realtor.ca is now live. Go check it out!   Matthew Collinge: Vancouver REALTOR®

As any REALTOR will tell you, this is no surprise. The real estate industry is famously old and grouchy about technology changes. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) informed me this morning that: The public www.mls.ca  web site will officially change its name to www.REALTOR.ca  on Monday June 30th, 2008. The original ...

I like to CAPITALIZE the first letter of very word in my titles, but small case seemed better today. Anyway, yes, mls.ca will no longer be mls.ca although they will, of course, be re-directing you to the new site should you try to go there. mls.ca is to be re-branded as realtor.ca. The rational is to remove any misconception that it is thee mls ...

I have added an "Audio Tour" or voice-over to one of my listings and I am interested to know what you you think about it. The way the website is set up it will only play automatically the first time you view the listing (on a given computer). Every time after that you would have to push the "PLAY" button to here the audio. ...

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 ...

On Tuesday I attended the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) Conference and Trade Show at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre. I attended a few seminars and saw a few speakers. There were actually 2 very good keynote speakers and of course a trade show full of companies trying to sell us stuff. The trade show is where I ...

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., ...

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 ...

Maybe if you are here you know already, but maybe not. Take a look at this video from the good folks at Common Craft. You may have to hit the play arrow a few different times but the video Matthew Collinge: www.604homes.com - Royal LePage Westside [Video]

When I first set up this blog through my website provider, Point2Agent, the only way to subscibe was through the buttons that say RSS 2.0 and ATOM at the top there below the picture of English Bay. Well that was great if you know that the heck "RSS" is and what to do with in. So a week or so ago I added a couple of nice colourful buttons ...