Jeff Turner

Looking For A Good Flickr Widget?

Jeff Turner — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:10:23 +0000

I first saw this CoolIris Express widget on the Miamism Facebook page and fell in love immediately. I’ve been a user of CoolIris for a long time, but I rarely go to their website. The CoolIris iPhone app updates automatically. So, there is never a need.

This is a new feature they’ve added to their tool chest, and I like it a lot. It’s one of the best Flickr photo presentation widgets I’ve seen, but it’s not just for Flickr. It will also present Picasa, YouTube or any other Media RSS Feed. Here’s one featuring my Flickr photos.

YouTego – Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Words?

Jeff Turner — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:44:10 +0000

A new social networking site popped up recently that uses photos as the primary way of communicating who you are and what you’re about. It’s called YouTego. I set up my profile on YouTego today and think it’s an interesting concept. It’s fairly intuitive, though it took me a second to understand what their “expressions” were for. I may be losing brain cells as I get older, so I’m not going to hold that against them. I loved that I could pull the icons from my own Flickr account. I’m going to play with it a bit and see who it recommends, from a connection standpoint.

How To Approach REBarcamp

Jeff Turner — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:35:48 +0000

This was my kickoff presentation at REBarcamp Denver.

8 Ideas To Help You Leverage Social Media

Jeff Turner — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:36:40 +0000

My 10 minute brain dump (it went almost 15, sorry Brad) at Inman Real Estate Connect in San Francisco on August 6, 2009.

Video Hosting Sites

Jeff Turner — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:27:22 +0000

There are almost as many video hosting sites as there are social networks. Each site has it’s own unique qualities and benefits. Here are a few more places I’ve posted videos.

Live Video Broadcasting

Jeff Turner — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:44:51 +0000

There are a growing number of places that give you the ability to stream video live. I’m sure this list will grow as technology improves and more people join the growing throngs of live video webcasters. Here is a list of the sites I’ve given a shot. Each one has it’s own set of features and benefits. I’ve not used any of them enough to date to make a solid recommendation, but I like ease of Stickam and UStream. I am excited to test Qik.com finally. Qik is mobile live video streaming. (Update: I love Qik.com. It will probably end up in a sidebar here at some point.)

Too Many Social Networks

Jeff Turner — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:32:57 +0000

You can only participate proactively and effectively in a small number of social networks, two or three at best. At least that’s my personal opinion. You can, of course, set up a virtual presence anywhere and everywhere. But should you? That’s a different question entirely. We could probably argue all day about the relative value of the time it takes to set up a profile if you’re not going to connect with anyone in that specific network.

Disclaimer: I sign up for social networks I know I will never ever use, just so I can see for myself how they’ve crafted their user experience and take a closer peak at their unique selling proposition. So my presence on any social network is not an endorsement in and of itself.

Real Estate Specific:

Others:

iPhone 2.0 Enabled Sites

Jeff Turner — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:31:51 +0000

Does this really need it’s own page? Probably not. But with the advent of iPhone 2.0, a slew of new sites are making their way to the surface that take advantage of the iPhones application architecture and updated features, including GPS-based geotagging of photos. This list will grow rapidly, I fear.

Social Planning Sites

Jeff Turner — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:43:07 +0000

The only social planning site I really use is Upcoming. I’m not even sure why I chose that one, except that it was the one being used by someone who invited me to something, and it was easy to sign in with my existing Yahoo! login. It just stuck. So, my decision to NOT use the following sites isn’t an indication that they aren’t as good as Upcoming. It’s purely random.

Social Messaging

Jeff Turner — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:34:41 +0000

For me, Twitter is my social messaging platform of choice. In truth, I could live without any other social messaging platform, but I’ve come to depend on Twitter for communication with a large number of people that I value. In addition, if Twitter had certain features built in, I could live without some of the other sites which have been developed to integrate with Twitter. For example: if there were a direct way to post photos to Twitter, I’d probably not use Brightkite, even though I like the “idea” of location based social networking and that concept might come into it’s own in one form or another.

Other social messaging sites I use:

Interesting social messaging aggregator, Dipity.com. Dipity pulls your feeds into a timeline, seen below.