Dan and I want to send a big thank you to Brad and everyone else at Inman News for the unexpected honor of winning this year Most Innovative Technology Award for Cloud MLX. We also want to thank all of you who have supported us over the 25 years we’ve been in real estate technology. We are just getting started with Cloud MLX and can’t wait to show you more. Thanks!
P.S. Looks like Katie was pretty stoked too.
Looking forward to catching up with everyone at Inman Connect is San Francisco this week.
Keep in mind Boston Logic is doing a great series of presentations at ICSF next week in what they are calling the “MarTech Salon” in the Franciscan Ballroom.
On Wednesday Tuesday at 11am I’ll be speaking with David Friedman, CEO of Boston Logic, on “Building an RE Tech Company”
You can see Tuesday’s full schedule here: http://sched.co/7qr9
You can see Wednesday’s full schedule at: http://sched.co/7ktS
Thursday’s schedule is also pretty strong.
At 8:30am Alex Lange, newly appointed CEO of Upstream will tell us “The Truth about Upstream”
At 2:15pm Errol, Curt will answer “What does the future look like for the MLS?”
You can see Thursday’s full schedule at : http://sched.co/7mta
The Innovator Bash is also Thursday night where Cloud MLX along with many others are nominated for 2016 Most Innovative Technology. Dan and I have been nominated so many times we are beginning to feel like Susan Lucci. : )
See you there!
“Boston Logic (http://www.bostonlogic.com), the technology platform that powers enterprise brokerages nationwide, announced the launch of Ace (http://ace.bostonlogic.com), a powerful technology solution that ties together a brokerage or team’s website, online lead generation, lead routing/follow up, CRM and online marketing, while also providing a skilled marketing person who can help drive these initiatives and campaigns.
Ace is tailored for agent teams and boutique brokerage companies, who often lack a dedicated staff person to lead their online marketing programs.
“Through many years of working with brokerages, we’ve learned that one of the biggest obstacles that brokers and teams face is having the staff to help drive the technology in which they invest,” said David Friedman, founder and CEO of Boston Logic.
“We designed Ace to include marketing support because we want to provide not only great technology, but impactful outcomes, even when the brokerage or team doesn’t have the full time staff to do so in-house,” Friedman said.
Boston Logic is doing a great series of presentations at ICSF next week in what they are calling the “MarTech Salon“.
On Wednesday Tuesday at 11am I’ll be speaking with David Friedman, CEO of Boston Logic, on “Building an RE Tech Company”
You can see Tuesday’s full schedule here: http://sched.co/7qr9
You can see Wednesday’s full schedule at: http://sched.co/7ktS
Thursday’s schedule is also pretty strong.
At 8:30am Alex Lange, newly appointed CEO of Upstream will tell us “The Truth about Upstream”
At 2:15pm Errol, Curt and Jonathan Bednarsh (president of Onboard) will answer “What does the future look like for the MLS?”
You can see Thursday’s full schedule at : http://sched.co/7mta
Andrea Brambila reporting for Inman News
Zillow and Move settle trade secrets lawsuit for $130M
$130 million smackaroos is all it took.
“Before the settlement, the case was scheduled to go to jury trial today. None of the parties admitted any liability, wrongdoing or responsibility in the settlement agreement, according to a Zillow Group public filing.
Move’s co-plaintiff, the National Association of Realtors, is entitled to 10 percent of the settlement proceeds after deduction of Move’s litigation-related costs and fees, with the remainder being paid to Move, according to a News Corp. public filing.”
All I can say is thank goodness. This was a huge distraction for everyone involved. I’m so happy for Errol, Curt and their families. This had to cause such undue stress on all involved.
I hoping that everyone involved can move forward and forgive and forget. I thought is was bullshit when MOVE and NAR first filed the lawsuit against Errol, especially in an industry where people seem to move from different companies on a regular basis.
But, I was also worried about Zillow’s timing and the aggressive way that they hired Curt. It seemed pretty ruthless.
This industry needs as many smart people involved in the conversation as possible. So NAR, let Zillow Group participate in trade shows and events.
Zillow, the last time I saw Spencer give a talk they asked him what was one of things he would have changed in the past. He said he would have reached out more to the industry. Well, you talked the talk, now walk the walk.
I’m also excited to see what is on the horizon for online real estate. You can bet the competition between MOVE, Zillow Group, Redfin and other is going to be fierce.
I glad were are back to innovation instead of spoliation.
Prowling the stage @Swanepoel probes for kernels of passion and greatness from leading brokerages #t3summit pic.twitter.com/OWJiy1T0kj
— Sam Scott (@infosam) April 28, 2016
I had a major case of FOMO last week, missing out on the T3 Summit. While Stefan was gracious enough to include me on their Power 200 list I had way too much going on (i.e. launching our new Cloud MLX product) to make the trek.
While there were a lot of sessions covering some of the most talked about topics (Upstream, AMP, etc.) I’ve talked to a few people who attended the event and the one speaker/person who kept coming up and that everyone was impressed by was Amy Bohutinsky, the Chief Operating Officer of Zillow. She previously ran the marketing at Zillow and took the new role right around when they closed Trulia.
If anyone else has anything to share please say something in the comments. I tried following on Twitter but couldn’t keep up.
Well, there’s always next year. Word is they will hold it at the Four Seasons again in Westlake Village. This year the event sold out fast.
“What this means is that AMP isn’t something to be worried about, rather each MLS will be able to consider choosing AMP as their MLS vendor on the same basis it would consider choosing FBS, Black Knight, Corelogic, or any other vendor. That’s an opportunity, not something to fear.
Rational and thoughtful (and a bit fun) post from Mr. Wurzer. Nice to see him writing again.
You gotta hand it to Rich Lull, Marty Reed and the rest of the team at Black Knight for another year at the top of Clareity Consulting’s “MLS Customer Satisfaction Survey“.
Oddly enough this year’s (and last years) number 2, FBS, was not at the event. And it appears that FBS is closing the gap. While Black Knight had a 10 point lead last year, FBS closed that gap to only 4 points. FBS also had the biggest jump in points.
According to the survey,points are calculated:
“…grouped by MLS vendor and system, based on a calculated score (3 times the “Excellent” percentage plus “Good,” minus “Fair,” minus 3 times “Poor”). A higher calculated score signifies better end-user satisfaction as reported by the MLS executive.“
Nice to see Rapattoni (who was at the event) go up a few points as well.
More later on the workshop itself, but wanted to congratulate everyone above.
His name is Jonathan Smoke a.k.a. “DJ Smokey Smoke“. It’s nice to see the new owner’s of MOVE are loosening up. But DJ Smokey Smoke’s latest post on Realtor.com’s official blog did catch my eye and left me wondering what exactly is News Corp smoking?
Plus I thought Rob Hahn a.k.a “The Notorious R.O.B.” owned this type of commentary/video format?
I’m not sure if our “Beat Karl” campaign is actually going to help us hype up our booth presence at the REALTORS EXPO & CONVENTION in San Diego this week, but we are sure having fun with the promotion. : )
We created a “walk on” video that will be played right before Karl’s ping pong matches. Enjoy, and please share!
#BEATKARL #BOOTH945 #NARANNUAL
This Friday I’ll be interviewing Marty Frame from RPR at the MLS Executives Session. I’ll be asking Marty a few questions about RPR, Upstream, AMP and maybe get some weight loss tips. I hope you’ll join me.
P.S. If you have any questions you would like me to ask just send them to me via email.
