{"id":5532,"date":"2010-09-21T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhgrealestateblog.com\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:24:40","slug":"the-report-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/the-report-21\/","title":{"rendered":"The REport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Think the real estate industry is one of the more social media savvy industries out there?\u00a0 Think again!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A new report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netprospex.com\/np\/system\/files\/NetProspex_Social_Report_Fall2010.pdf\">NetProspex<\/a> ranks real estate at 28 out of 50, below such industries as \u201ccleaning products\u201d and \u201cpet products.\u201d\u00a0 Not surprisingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUS97224827020100916\">&#8220;advertising &amp; marketing&#8221; and &#8220;search engines\/online portals<\/a>&#8221; topped the list.\u00a0 Let\u2019s rally and get our industry in the top ten next year!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Have you noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/20\/a-look-at-the-new-twitter\/?src=busln\">Twitter\u2019s new look<\/a>? \u00a0The micro blogging site has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39182259\/ns\/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets\/\">undergone a makeover<\/a> which consists of a new two pane layout and the ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/technolog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2010\/09\/14\/5112382-twitter-makeover-ups-the-social-networking-ante-\">embed videos and photos<\/a>. \u00a0Another aspect of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;art_aid=135751\">redesign<\/a> provides additional information about each post&#8211;profile, geographic info, past tweets&#8211; on the main page.\u00a0 The 140-character limit somehow does not seem as restricting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/09\/20\/flickr-five-billion\/\">Flickr<\/a> has passed a milestone: the <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/web\/09\/20\/flickr.5.billion\/\">five billionth photo<\/a> has been uploaded to the site! \u00a0If you think this is impressive, keep in mind that Facebook users post <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/04\/30\/facebook-photo-sharing\/\">220 million new pictures<\/a> each week.\u00a0 So Facebook posts five billion photos about every 23 weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In other picture news, albeit moving pictures, movie review site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;art_aid=135950\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> has added new social tools so users can see the opinions of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2369311,00.asp\">Facebook friends immediately<\/a>.\u00a0 Now the difficult part is finding which of your friends has good taste in films\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Think you are cramped on an airplane now? \u00a0Enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2010-09-14\/travel\/skyrider.compact.seats_1_airline-seat-seat-pitch-seating-position?_s=PM:TRAVEL\">SkyRider seat<\/a>, which would reduce the space between rows of seatbacks to just <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/sep\/17\/business\/la-fi-0917-airline-seat-20100917\">23 inches.<\/a> Sit tight to see if any airliners adopt these.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Have a celebrity you would like to<a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/kindness\/post\/2010\/09\/for-twitter-fans-bid-to-have-your-favorite-celebrity-follow-and-retweet-your-tweets\/1\"> communicate<\/a> to? \u00a0You may be in luck with <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/09\/15\/celebrity-twitter-charity\/\">TwitChange<\/a>, the first-ever <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/blog-post\/2010\/09\/twitter_charity_celebrities_wi.html\">celebrity Twitter auction.<\/a> Bidders can choose to be followed, retweeted or mentioned by the celebrity.\u00a0 All money goes to aHomeInHaiti.org, which will rebuild a home for children with cerebral palsy, severe autism and other disabilities. \u00a0If you were <a href=\"http:\/\/new.music.yahoo.com\/blogs\/stopthepresses\/280910\/john-mayer-deletes-twitter-account\/\">hoping<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/09\/14\/john-mayer-quits-twitter\/\">John Mayer<\/a>, though, you are out of luck as he abruptly quit <a href=\"http:\/\/new.music.yahoo.com\/blogs\/stopthepresses\/280910\/john-mayer-deletes-twitter-account\/\">Twitter<\/a> last week. 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