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  • Get out of the office with Google Street View

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    One of the apps I use on a daily basis is Google Street View. It is rare to find an application which is multi-dimensional in the sense that it can serve such a wide range of needs – on both mobile and desktop. Google Street View is embedded in most mobile mapping applications and allows users to preview landmarks on the way to an unfamiliar destination. The Google Street View can also be embedded into any website and can be extremely useful for property listing websites. View Larger Map Google…

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  • ClientLook’s Virtual Assistant

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    If you’re not familiar with ClientLook, it’s a cloud based CRM developed specifically for CRE. There are several different ways you can use it – as an easily accessible repository for your contact/calendar info that syncs with your other apps, a project collaboration tool and/or a way to keep track of all your deal activity. And if the social Scoop feature wasn’t enough to make you give it a try, maybe the new Virtual Assistant feature will. ClientLook provides you with a phone number and email…

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  • Roambi Flow: Next generation market reports

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    Just about every national commercial real estate brokerage firm publishes some type of quarterly market report, normally in a boring PDF format. And at the end of each quarter, you’ve either got to wait for an email or visit the broker’s website to download their newest report. Imagine downloading an app which would not only deliver quarterly market reports directly to your iPad, but would allow you to interact with each chart, rather than just seeing the same old up/down from previous quarter a…

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  • PlanGrid: Blueprints on your iPad

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    Second only to commercial real estate’s addiction to the fax machine, is the construction industry’s addiction to blueprints… Enter PlanGrid. From a recent TechCrunch article: PlanGrid is a cloud-based service that delivers blueprints as PDFs directly on the tablet; then people working in the field can use these instead of paper-based versions. When a modification needs to be made, that can be directly noted on the plan, in the app. That is subsequently updated into a new version. PlanGrid’s t…

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  • SnapGuide: How-To do…. anything

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    SnapGuide is a clever iPhone app that makes creating a “how to” guide simple. Using a template like interface, you add titles, text, photos or video snippets and with a few more clicks, create your guide. Reorganize elements by dragging them to their new location. Then publish it on the SnapGuide site, share it on social networking sites or email the guide (you’ll get the guide URL that way, too, to use on your website or blog). The interface is a work of art: “I was immediately floored by how w…

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  • HelloFax: A cure for CRE’s facsimile addiction

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    HelloFax allows users to Throw away their fax machine! Tell me more, you say? We’ll let HelloFax do the explaining: You want to go digital, but ancient legislation and old regulations require that you fax. We let you go paperless, while also letting you work with old technology. No need for expensive software, desktop solutions, or printers & fax machines. Everything you need, we provide. Manage documents Some of your most important documents go through our system. We help you manage and kee…

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  • MagicPlan: An Architect in Your Pocket

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    I continue to struggle with how Augmented Reality Applications can benefit the commercial real estate industry. TechCrunch recently pinned an article on MagicPlan 2.0, in which they commented: Augmented reality isn’t always totally pointless. Sorry if you think it’s hugely useful to see an augmented view of tweets around you just by holding up your phone, but I like to find slightly more advanced applications using the technology. One such app, MagicPlan, fits that description. From the two-yea…

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  • The Search for Office Space Has Evolved

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    The $860 million Loopnet/Costar merger made headlines about this time last year; a deal which is yet to close. Meanwhile, some folks are not standing idly by. As Costar and Loopnet spend millions of dollars trying to convince the FTC that the merger is not anti-competitive, the market continues to evolve. A Little Background Both Costar and Loopnet have subscription-based business models. If you’re a broker, and you need to run a market availability report, you need to buy a subscription. If yo…

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  • OnLive Desktop – Office Apps on Your Tablet

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    How would you like to be able to run full versions of Microsoft Office on your Apple or Android tablet? Turns out you can with OnLive Desktop. Sign up for a free account at OnLive, download the app to your device, then sign in. You’ll see what looks like a standard Windows 7 desktop with shortcuts to Word, PowerPoint and Excel plus your document folder, Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader. For $4.99 per month, the browser will be enabled for general browsing meaning you can see Flash websites. Th…

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  • The tech industry is beginning to take notice…

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    When TechCrunch runs a piece on Real Estate, you know techies are taking aim. In this piece, Jacob Mullins (a Senior Associate with Shasta Ventures) states: Over the past months I’ve been mentally mulling over the profundity of Real Estate. Throughout history, real estate has been the most coveted, fought-over, and valuable resource to humanity. Entire civilizations were created, and wiped out, on their level of success in securing it and the access it provided for their people. In the modern ag…

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