The Future of Real Estate is HERE!
If I tell you that Mozilla Labs has released an open source project that allows natural language to rule how you interact with your Firefox browser, you’ll just skim past this article, BUT if I tell you with a click of a button, a map can be embedded into an email, highlighted text can be twittered and highlighted craigslist ads will autopopulate onto a map all while never opening a new window or tab to obtain such things, you will freak out because the FUTURE of the Internet has arrived!
This quick video shows you how Ubiquity works… watch it now, you’ll thank us afterward:
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo
Real Estate Applications
All this time, we assumed one of the mega companies would find the innovation for how to revolutionize home searching but the race is on- this open source project allows clients to productively search for homes. Right now it only works for Craigslist, but which search portal will get to the finish line first with synchronicity with Ubiquity (meaning you can highlight listings with your mouse, hit Ctrl + space bar and autopopulate a map with all the listings).
How can YOU use it? There are several ways that Ubiquity will begin to play a role in your business:
- Emails are done more quickly, cohesively, accurately and in true rock star style- your clients will never have to leave their emailer, they can print what you send them and it’s already mapped out because you typed in “2718 Costa Azul Cove, 78641” then Ctrl + space bar and embedded the map for that property and the other 12 properties you want your client to drive by tomorrow.
- When telling your clients about an area, instead of sending links to area data, you’ll have it in your branded email already (that took you 2 minutes to make by the way) with embedded reviews of local attractions, restaurants and eventually (when someone hooks up with the open source project to create the option) school data.
- We predict that Ubiquity in the future will have the option for real time real estate data from the local Boards (the same as our current IDX feeds do) so you can simply drop that info into an email, zip it over to your clients and BAM, they’re up to date and they love you.
- You can highlight interesting information and with an easy click, you can tweet it! So, find an awesome stat (“home sales are up 139%”) and twit that bad boy without even opening your Twitter application!
- Search?! The possibilities are limitless.
Everyone gets analytical clients that need tangible data, maps and reviews and Ubiquity is the tool that makes the “I need to know everything” email take seconds instead of hours. It’s almost like a drag and drop system. It’s young and clunky and VERY buggy right now but the concept is so useful that we believe it will be an amazing tool as it grows and with each new version. How do you see YOUR business benefiting from Ubiquity?
