Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
VAIL, Colo., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- An innovative internet marketing solution for real estate companies and professionals is now available for subscription. With NAR suggesting that nearly 77% of all real estate purchases start with an internet search and the introduction of several brand new national on-line real estate industry competitors, real estate professionals need a cost effective tool that allows them to become recognized in the organic search arena.
Real Estate Blogsites, co-founded in January 2006 by John Helmering and Kristen Veraldi, is a web based technology platform that allows real estate agents, brokers and other industry professionals to virtually syndicate and make information visible to an on-line audience in real time. The hosted content management platform offers features that support both external public usage and secure internal channels. A Real Estate Blogsite can be integrated to look and feel exactly like the client's existing website. First round product features include: auto-populating briefing channels, intelligence reporting, automatic pinging, Topic Cloud, built-in quality assurance, internet analytics and statistics, and multiple blog channels. Real Estate Blogsites also offers focused training and support to enhance search positioning.
Veraldi suggests that this product is successful at targeting the greatly unpredictable needs of long tail search customers, "This product offers a very unique approach to increasing internet visibility. One of the reasons that a Real Estate Blogsite is so effective at reaching long tail traffic is that the authored message is very focused; realtor authors provide specific expertise on outlying topics that are relative to their geographical area of focus. In turn, they continually grow a body of very useful content that resonates with what buyers are searching for, and is organized in a way that search engines appreciate. Because of this, we have seen long tail real estate search terms rise to the top of major search engines again, and again."
Real Estate Blogsites leverage MyST Blogsite(TM) to provide the greatest agility and an advanced architecture designed to meet present and future real estate publishing requirements. According to MyST co-founder Bill French, "MyST Technology Partners developed advertorial blogsites to help businesses create extremely effective weblog experiences that are designed to meet stringent business and productivity requirements." Mr. French adds, "Our blogsite foundation is used successfully in many niche industries to increase content discoverability and brand impressions -- Real Estate Blogsites represents an ideal use of this platform to help home buyers find exactly what they are looking for while enabling real estate businesses to establish a foothold in the emerging syndicated web."
Helmering sees this platform as providing in-roads to real estate consumers that are tech savvy, informed and ready to buy or sell, "Throughout my 17 year career as a real estate broker, it has always been my goal to offer clients an extensive knowledge base so they can make educated buying and selling decisions. Real Estate Blogsites allows me to share my knowledge and insights with my existing customers as well as new consumers who are interested in my offerings and have found me through their internet research."
Real Estate Blogsites' initial product launch is scheduled for February 9th at the CRS Sellabration, in San Antonio, Texas.
MyST Technology Partners provides business blogging services for advertorial blogsites and enterprise RSS solutions. For companies seeking increased Internet visibility within targeted market segments, MyST Blogsites(TM) (http://www.blogsite.com/reb) are RSS-enabled micro sites that increase both online content discoverability and brand impressions. MyST Technology Partners is located in Keystone, Colorado, and has development offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA