Today marks my first real day in the office in quite a while. Several weeks of planes, trains and automobiles. There was a brief vacation shoved in there, but for the most part, @lkjohannesmeyer and I have been away from
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Why UX matters
Yesterday, the Solid Earth team crowded around the projector again for a presentation by UI/UX developer, Adam Campbell. Five slides and fifteen minutes later, we all had a greater appreciate for what UX means and why it’s a focal point
Spring in our nation’s capitol
Next week will be our second public viewing of our new MLS platform, Spring. The first seems like years ago in Anaheim at NAR 2011. Back then, we debuted Spring on iPads and PCs in our newly redesigned booth and
Facebook: The RE Professional’s moth or flame?
Facebook is great. Admittedly, I’m there a lot. I have a busy life and I love people, so FB allows me to keep in touch with the people I love despite my schedule. And I’m eager to see what FB
“Zulia” advances into our turf: Tragic or Liberating?
Take a second and scan through this great article from AGBeat published on Wednesday. Zillow has created Agent Hub, a services dashboard aimed directly at the individual agent – translation, “not the broker”. It’s another shot fired at the traditional
First Day of Spring
It was obvious to everyone that we needed to do something for the first day of Spring. I mean, when you’re product is called Spring, it kind of goes without saying. We thought about flowers. We considered baby rabbits and
Spring’s personality
Yesterday, I participated in one of the coolest things I’ve ever done here at Solid Earth. Well, the first time I flew an office helicopter was pretty awesome. Let’s just say I did the coolest thing I’ve ever done here
Downstream IDX
You know by now that I simply cannot write a straight-up corporate marketing piece. A blog after all, is a concept born out of the term “weblog”, which by definition is an online diary of sorts. The blog, once innocent,