The first question you might have is why would I want to syndicate my videos? Syndicating allows you to upload a single video to one site while letting that one site upload your video everywhere else. It will save you hours of time uploading videos. The service I am talking about is TubeMogul.com

TubeMogul is a free service that will automatically syndicate any uploaded videos to the most popular video hosting services all for free. Tubemogul syndicates to AOL, Blip, Break, Brightcove, Crackle, DailyMotion, Google Video, Graspr, Howcast, Tellytopia, iMeem, Metacafe, MySpace, Revver, Sclipo, StupidVideos, WebCastr, Yahoo Video, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and 5Min.

You probably will not want your videos syndicated to all the sites above so TubeMogul lets you decide what sites you want your videos uploaded to. I personally have my videos upload automatically to Google Video, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and YouTube depending on what type of video it is. In order for TubeMogul to sydicate your videos to these pages you will have to have an account with the sites you’re uploading to but once they are created that’s all you have to do.

TubeMogul also takes it a step further and gives you great stats on your video views. The easy-to-use TubeMogul interface allows you to see what video sites are giving your videos the greatest exposure and shows you how many views each video gets from each service.

This means I will no longer have to manually upload my videos to all the different video hosting sites and then try and keep up with how many views each site shows. Now I only have to upload and check one site for everything.

If you’re not currently using video, here are some reasons you might want to jump on board.

-In 2008, over 120 BILLION videos were streamed in the U.S.
-About 15% of the WORLD watches web videos each day.
-50% of the U.S. population watches web videos each day.
-13 Hours of Web Video get uploaded to YouTube.com EVERY MINUTE
-YouTube.com’s bandwidth costs exceed 1 Million dollars EACH DAY
-YouTube.com consumed more bandwidth in 2008 than the ENTIRE INTERNET did in the year 2000
-Certain cable television shows have started broadcasting directly to the Internet because they were getting more viewers.
-For the first time, in 2008 the presidential candidates used the web as their primary campaign medium.
-PuppyCam became the most popular streaming video of all time. It consisted of 6 puppies in a crate?!?
-PuppyCam may sound stupid but in only 3 months 13 million people spent over 4 million hours watching those puppies!
-Of the over 23 billion dollars spent on advertising in 2008, over ONE BILLION dollars went into online video.

Funny stuff. It’s amazing how fast the video revolution has moved. I just hope agents are ready for it.

If you have any questions you can e-mail me at info@retechblog.com or visit my blog at www.RETechBlog.com

Have a great day,
Matt Rains
www.RETechSeminars.com

On January 15th in Miami we will be giving away a FREE Blackberry Storm to one lucky attendant of the Real Estate Technology Specialist Seminar. We are lucky enough to not only have the Blackberry Storm but also tons of accessories to go with it when we raffle it off. We love showing agents how to make money without spending money so much that we’re going to raffle off this $750 Blackberry package on the 15th of January at RAMB. The winner will walk away from the seminar with the device + accessories.

If your a real estate professional and you need to learn how to market yourself and your listings online correctly using proven methods that don’t cost you a penny you need to register for the Real Estate Technology Seminar on January 15th @ RAMB in Miami. We’ve already had hundreds of agents go through our seminar and not one single negative evaluation! If you don’t believe us and want to hear what other agents are saying about this seminar then see our Testimonials.

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Many of you or probably all of you have used a “usb 2.0″ device or you’ve heard “usb 2.0″ compatible related to printers, cameras, external hard drives and much more. USB is a wired interface that allows you to connect your computer to an external device for data transfer. The “2.0″ in “USB 2.0″ refers to the upgraded speed from the original USB 1.1 of the olden days. USB 2 has a max transfer rate of about 30 mega-bytes per seconds max. This means if you take listing pictures that are 1 mega-byte in size and you transfer 60 listing pictures from your camera to your computer it will take 2 seconds. 2 seconds is the speed based off the max transfer rate of USB 2, but in reality there are always bottle necks that take USB 2 down to about 10-15 mega-bytes per second. Don’t get me wrong USB 2 was fast enough for most anything the average computer user was doing, but with the bottle necks involved put a restraint on how far the hardware industry could go with new “toys”. It’s the same thing that happened with the internet. Until recently not everyone had a broadband connection so not everyone felt comfortable using streaming video or flash applications on their websites because they were afraid some people wouldn’t be able to see them. Now that (almost) everyone has a broadband connection those bottle necks are gone and streaming video & flash apps are all over the net.

Now enter the new USB 3.0! Transferring data at a MASSIVE 500 mega-bytes per second max. The new USB 3 technology can transfer data almost 17 times faster than the USB 2 everyone is using right now. What does this mean to you? This means we can get rid of a lot of bottle necks that we’re holding the industry back. Let’s take for example, hard drives. As of right now all commercially available hard drives can transfer data at around 80 mega-bytes per second max no matter what cable they’re using. **NERD COMMENT** Even if you’re using the newer SATA (300 mb/s) cables in your machine and running a RAPTOR HD, you’re not going much over 80mb/s **END NERD COMMENT** Hard drives can’t transfer data at speeds over 80 mega-bytes per second mainly because there was no interface that could support anything greater. Now that USB 3 is here hard drive manufactures can start to build hard drives that transfer data at rates of 300-500 mega-bytes per second. Another note is what they can now do with solid state flash storage. Flash storage transfers at around a snails speed (even in the mac air), but now that they have USB 3 to interface with we may see solid state flash drives reach speeds of 250-300 mega-bytes per second!

To put it in perspective, with this new USB 3 technology at max speed you’ll be able to copy an entire DVD movie from your hard drive to an external storage device in about 4 seconds. WOW!

I know this was a nerd post but thanks for reading along.
Matt Rains
www.RETechSeminars.com

So you want to start working with that younger “internet” crowd, you just don’t know where to start. Well trying to work with the younger crowd seems like a good idea to me. I mean the majority of buyers that are going to absorb this market are going to be young renters and first time home buyers. I’m 25 years old and i’ve been around computers and different forms of technology since I can remeber so it doesn’t come as a problem when I need to communicate with a first time home buyer who is 21-30 years old. I know I can always find them on Facebook or MySpace and start up some type of conversation.

So what are you supposed to do if you’re not tech savvy, you don’t “do” Facebook or MySpace and you actually refer to them as “MyFace” and “SpaceBook” (Mom!)?

I would say the first thing you need to try and understand is the generation itself. You need to know what they are doing and what they are looking for. You need to know how they breathe, eat and sleep. You need to know everything.

It’s hard to do but in my experience young buyers are looking for that older responsible adult to help them with such a big decision and you might just be that adult.

I will leave you pondering how you can approach this new “first time home buyer” and walk away with the deal but if you need any help please watch this video by Guy Kawasaki. He interviews the “young” first time home buyer age group and what he finds might literally amaze you. It’s about an hour but WELL WORTH YOUR TIME! Also, If you had a chance to ask all of Facebook some questions about how they communicated and how they would like to be approached by an agent, what questions would you have for them?

http://www.veotag.com/player/?u=wgcqpthubc

Thanks to Guy and Chad Huck for showing me the video.

Have a great day,
Matt Rains
www.RETechSeminars.com

Hello Everyone,

Recently a company called Qik.com came onto the scene with a new technology that allowed people to stream live video directly from their cell phone. The idea was genius and the technology worked great. There was only one problem, Qik.com only supported a very limited number of phones. As of January 1st Qik.com now supports over 100 different types on phones so it’s more likely you can now pack this great idea into your little bag of tricks.

The first thing you need to do is sign up for a free account at Qik.com then make sure your phone is compliant and your phone has some type of data or internet plan (unlimited is recommended). Once you have an account and your phone passes all the required criteria you can install the free software onto your smartphone or iPhone. Now it’s as simple as running the application on your phone and pressing “stream”.

Once your streaming anyone who is on your Qik.com webpage can watch the live feed. Privacy controls are also available if you don’t want everyone watching.

Go ahead and play with it. I highly recommend you learn how it works and how you can use it in your everyday business.

Have a great day,
Matt Rains
RETechBlog.com

So it’s 2009? It goes by faster every year and 2008 was no exception. There was a lot that happened in 2008 both good and bad; but I think for the most part it was a learning experience for most younger and even some older agents. I especially learned a lot as a young agent about how the market moves and how large of an impact certain factors have on the long term stability of the housing market.

2008 was an especcially great year for technology in real estate with so many forms of technology coming to the forefront of the industry like video, detailed web applications and more social networks than we can count and I guess saying “better late then never” kind of applies to some of the technology we have seen as well.

Well, it’s 2009 and I hope everyone takes this chance to “re-align” and grasp this new “RE.net” industry and run with it. There is so much opportunity for everyone in this new year I wish everyone the best.

Have a great year,
Matt Rains
RealEstateTechnologyOnline.com