July 13th, 2008
On Friday I managed to update my “old” iPhone to 2.0 software. I think iPhone apps and the iTunes app store are the most significant feature of the recent Apple iPhone upgrade circus.
Since I’m a hopelessly addicted 360 image geek the first iPhone app I downloaded from the store was the PangeaVR 360 image viewer […]
June 18th, 2008
There’s a new tour provider that launched recently - cpgtours.com.
Their tour design is clean and elegant. They are primarily setup for single agent use but are working on features that would more easily accommodate selling to real estate photographers. Mike Cole from cpgtours said, “…we really hadn’t thought of selling directly to photographers. Right […]
May 23rd, 2008
Mario Restrepo of San Diego, CA sent me a link recently to one of his recent shoots of an ocean front Las Gaviotas luxury property about an hour south of San Diego.
I particularly like Mario’s simple, elegant tour interface and integration of a large satellite Google map of the area into the tour. Nice work […]
April 11th, 2008
TourBuzz.net announced two new features for their tours recently:
Canadian Address Support - You can now use TourBuzz in Canada
Customizable Map Location - TourBuzz now shows you where the property is on the map. If it’s mapped in the wrong place or can’t be found, you can drag the marker to the correct position.
March 23rd, 2008
I just tried out a new do-it-yourself tour site that was launched not to long ago called tourbuzz.net.
The site is designed with photographers in mind because it allows a photographer to create an manage many client’s tours and put the photographer’s branding on tour as well as the agent’s branding information.
March 6th, 2008
Mike Martin pointed out that Ubuildtours.com has done a major upgrade. Back in December I did a post on ubuildtours.com. This new update has a bunch of updates:
More browsers than just IE for building tours.
March 4th, 2008
Drew King sent me a link to a tour done by Hurwitz-James of some luxury estates.Since we’ve been evaluating tours I thought this would be instructive to look at what kind of marketing is going on at the obscenely expensive ($9 million to $25 million) end of the market these days.
February 29th, 2008
I want to kick off the concept of tour reviews, a new use for the flickr group discussion group.
In a comment on the discussion of What to charge for real estate photography Mike Yother suggested that we setup a new scheme to allow all you gentle readers to evaluate and vote on tours. Mike’s […]
February 25th, 2008
Tour usage overall and video tour usage are both increased significantly over 2007.Last year at this time when I looked at tour usage only 8% of the listings I reviewed on our local MLS (Seattle’s east side) had links to tours. Click here for last years details. This year when I looked at a similar […]
February 8th, 2008
PFRE reader Michael Asgian is launching a new property site hosting service called homeXposure.com.
Michael’s company panostar.com, based in Newport Beach, CA, has been offering real estate marketing and imaging services since 2002. Panostar offers real estate photography, virtual tours, real estate flyers and postcards.
