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 Lifestyle Listings Engine API - New Property Search Version 0.9 Delivered

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in News and Events, Onboard Products, Onboard Updates | Edit | 1 Comment »

 Onboard Informatics launched the second version of Lifestyle Listings Engine - Version 0.9 today. Lifestyle Listings Engine, the first ever enterprise-class property search based on consumer lifestyle, was first announced earlier this year at Inman News Real Estate Connect in New York.  Since …

Lifestyle Listings Engine…Another Step

Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Geography and Mapping, News and Events, Onboard Products, Uncategorized | Edit | No Comments »

In my last post I described the current capabilities in the Lifestyle Listing Engine API and also mentioned some of the new things in the works. Well, we’ve been diligently at work and I’m happy to report we have some …

Defining Lifestyle, Part 1: Content

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Geography and Mapping, Informatics | Edit | No Comments »

Let’s start with a question:  How does Onboard Informatics define “lifestyle”? If we’re providing lifestyle search, we must have a clear set of lifestyles defined, right?  A nice neat set of definitions to shoehorn buyers and sellers into?  A concise categorization …  

Lifestyle Listings Engine API - New Property Search Version 0.8 Delivered

Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in Geography and Mapping, Onboard Products, Uncategorized | Edit | No Comments »

This week we launched the first version of our Lifestyle Listings Engine– version 0.8. The API has been in process for some time and has been in use by a number of early beta testers who have provided a lot …

Announcing - Lifestyle Search Essay Contest Winner!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Posted in News and Events, Onboard Products, Onboard Updates | Edit | No Comments »

We launched the Lifestyle Search Essay Contest a few weeks ago asking you to share your thoughts and vision on the future of real estate search.  We ended up with five great entries from various real estate industry professionals who all had …

Onboard Informatics Announces the Delivery of Lifestyle Listings Engine

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Posted in News and Events, Onboard Products, Onboard Updates | Edit | No Comments »

 Imagine if people could search for a home based on their lifestyle. New York, NY. 2-17-2009 – Onboard Informatics, the premier data services company for top companies in real estate, technology and media, has announced the delivery of the Application Programming Interfaces …

Lifestyle Listings Engine…stuff. PART 4

Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Onboard Products | Edit | No Comments »

So let’s boil down all that other jazz-hands, expert system, yada-yada stuff I said in the other posts about LLE to one phrase–we aggregate listings into usable data/information. Great, grand, wonderful…so what? Well…nothing, really. …

The Future of Real Estate Search

Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Onboard Products | Edit | 1 Comment »

Okay, so when we initially conceived of the Lifestyle Search Essay Contest, I was pretty excited to lock-in the $500 prize.  I mean, I know a thing or two about lifestyle search, I know the judges, and I’ve got some …

Lifestyle Search Essay Contest Entries

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in News and Events | Edit | 1 Comment »

Dont forget to vote… poll is located at the bottom of page ESSAY #1 Sterling Geluch, Posted on Active Rain The Community Part Matters, not the Cutting Edge Part The real estate search of the future will rise out of the experiences of frustrated …

We’re not the only ones thinking about search…

Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Posted in Industry, News and Events | Edit | No Comments »

Since we announced our new product, Lifestyle Listings Engine, a few weeks ago at Inman Connect, I’ve noticed a ton of conversations and debate over Search…where it is and where it’s going.    The general consensus seems to be that there’s going …

Unity of Content: Unsolicited but Free Advice

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Advice, Informatics | Edit | No Comments »

Keeping in mind the maxim, “Advice is worth what you’ve paid for it” I thought it would be fun and interesting to look at what unity of content means in the context of an actual website.  This is unsolicited advice …

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® Agree to Formally Explore Lifestyle Listings Engine

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in News and Events | Edit | No Comments »

Onboard Infomratics and Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) have announced that they will formally explore the Lifestyle Listings Engine for implementation within RELOHomeSearch.com. Through this partnership, LeadingRE’s network of top independent brokerage firms will have preferred access to …

Why We Don’t Build Websites

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Industry, Onboard Products | Edit | No Comments »

Ever since the announcement of Lifestyle Listings Engine, we have been extraordinarily busy here at Onboard Informatics.  The response from the industry, from all of you, has been frankly gratifying.  It seems …

Real Estate Debate - Pros & Cons of Lifestyle Search

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in News and Events | Edit | No Comments »

Today Notorious R.O.B. (Rob Hahn of Onboard Informatics) and Joseph Ferrara of Sellsius Real Estate Blog conducted a debate yesterday regarding the pros and cons of the latest buzz in real estate, ”Lifestyle Search”.  They discussed questions such as  do consumers want or need a new way to …

Lifestyle Search Essay Contest

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in News and Events | Edit | 7 Comments »

As we announced a couple of weeks ago at Inman, Onboard Informatics is taking the first step towards the vision of a lifestyle search with the Lifestyle Listings Engine.  But we know that this is just the first step on a …

Lifestyle Listings Engine…stuff. PART 3

Friday, January 16th, 2009 Posted in Advice, Informatics | Edit | 2 Comments »

Previously on Heroes… Peter destroys “the formula” to save mankind, Rob–having lost his powers in a legal battle with Brian Larson–gets thrown out of a window, and my dev crew discovers that free Coke is really just a way to keep …

Confessions of a Regicide: On Content, Web, and Strategy

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Posted in Advice, Industry | Edit | 4 Comments »

At the recent Inman NYC event, I was invited to speak on a panel titled “Content Is King” in which I said a bunch of words along …

Lifestyle Listings Engine…stuff. PART 2

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Advice, Informatics | Edit | 1 Comment »

Yesterday I left off with a promise to explain what an expert system is, and give some insight into how those play into Onboard Informatics approach to aggregating listings (and other) data. Ok…so as cliffhangers go it’s no Stewie Kills …

Lifestyle Listings Engine…stuff. PART 1

Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in Advice, Informatics, Onboard Products | Edit | No Comments »

This is part one in a multi-part series that will cover what we envision the Lifestyle Listings Engine being capable of, both for-real delivered day one stuff and some sky-pie. In addition to talking about some of the interesting (at …

Onboard Informatics Introduces a Lifestyle Listings Engine

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 Posted in News and Events, Onboard Products | Edit | 7 Comments »

Imagine if people could search for a home based on their lifestyle. New York, NY. 1-6-2009 – Onboard Informatics, the premier data services company for top companies in real estate, media and technology, has announced the Lifestyle Listings Engine: the first …

Imagine if you will….

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Advice, Industry, Onboard Products | Edit | 3 Comments »

…..searching for a place to live instead of searching for a house. Imagine searching for a place in which my family will be comfortable and happy. Imagine searching for a home based on what I like to do. Imagine searching for a community! Back …

One Size Fits All = something that doesn’t really fit

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Industry, Onboard Updates | Edit | 1 Comment »

So here’s my rant this week. Holiday time is upon us.   I tend to shop online.  Its so easy.  I know the preferences of the folks I’m getting gifts for, I know the brands for the goods I’m looking for and …

On Localism & Future of Online Real Estate

Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in Advice, Industry, RE.net | Edit | 14 Comments »

Over at my personal blog, I started one of those Cassandra deals speculating on the future of ActiveRain network now that Trulia has launched a blog platform. Since that post went up, I …

Real Estate Wetware 2.0

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in Advice, Industry | Edit | No Comments »

As we wind down Real Estate’s Annus Horribilis, and look forward to 2009, I am struck by a wholly unreasonable sense of optimism. Some experts are predicting that if 2008 was the Year of Horrors for the markets, then 2009 will …

On Hyperlocal Targeting

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in Industry, Informatics, RE.net | Edit | 3 Comments »

If you are interested in real estate and marketing, then you need to check out Real Estate Relativity. The author is an expert in matters of database marketing, social media, and real estate — and it shows. In one of …