Today was the last day with a Keynote. There were big announcements about Chrome and a new Compute Engine product (virtual machine rental). There was an unnecessary reprisal of the blimp jumping stunt, and some excellent sessions.
Mark Scheel reports on Google I/O 2012 – Day 1 Recap
Incredible day, there was a live stream event of someone jumping out of a blimp onto the roof of the Moscone center, and a ton of great announcements. I ran into Sergey Brin twice and got to meet the blimp jumper.
W&R Studios is looking for a few good men/women
W&R Studios, the creators of Cloud CMA, is looking to fill two positions:
Senior Account Manager (East Coast)
You’ll be responsible for selling W&R Studios products to agents, large brokers and MLS providers. We do this in a variety of ways. Co-sponsored events, office meetings, trade shows, conferences, live demos, phone, email, webinars, and lobby bars. I want someone who lives on the East Coast or somewhere where it’s not too much of a hassle to fly to the east coast.
Customer Support
I’m looking for someone to help us with our customer support. You should give good phone, be nice, and patient. This person will work out of our Huntington Beach office. We are a small company so typically this person will wear a lot of hats. So don’t be surprised if you are monitoring our social media feeds, creating screencasts, and writing blog posts.
We are looking for passionate people. While we have a casual work environment our goal is to create great products.
Email me at greg at wrstudios dot com. All inquires will be kept confidential.
Mark Scheel Reports on Google I/O 2012 – The Prediction Post
Mark Scheel Reports on Google I/O 2012 – The Prediction Post
Arrived in San Francisco today. I like to play a game on the plane to I/O where I guess who is going to the conference. Simple math says about 100 people will come from each state so there probably isn’t anyone else on my plane from Denver. But you never know if the guy with a Family Guy T-Shirt and an 8AM Slurpee, or the skinny hipster with Chuck Taylor’s and an ironic t-shirt, might be in. A green robot hoodie? Dead giveaway.
RIP Marie Marr
Rex Marr’s wife has passed.
Jack Jominy posted this on Facebook last night…
I am sadden to inform you that Rex Marr’s wife Marie died today at 12:30pm. For those of you who don’t know, Marie had a tragic accident just before Christmas, 2011. She fell in their house and the same day went into a coma. Marie never recovered. Rex was by her side every day until she passed away.
I do not know the final funeral arrangements but I do know it will be Michigan on July 14’th. When I know the full details I will pass it along to all of you.
My thoughts and prayers go out to Rex and the Marr family.
-Jack
Mark Scheel reports on Google I/O 2012 – The Intro Post
Google I/O might be my favorite work related event of the year. This isn’t my first geek-adventure at Moscone Center in San Franscisco, and hopefully it won’t be my last.
I have been to several technical Google Events in the past year including ones at the Chelsea office in New York City, the Venice Beach office in California and in my backyard at the Boulder campus in Colorado. Still, I/O, a technology conference spent mostly in lectures where I studiously absorb new information, is a no brainer for one of my favorite things to do each year.
I am seriously excited for _this_ year for several reasons.
Mark Scheel is back and will be live reporting from the Google IO conference next week!
one of the largest, if not THE LARGEST MLS IDX data aggregation systems in the industry. He now runs a software consultancy firm in Denver called Digital Construction.
I happy to have Mark contribute and hope to continue the trend with more contributors in the future.
Take it away Mark!
LPS shows the love
LPS customers receive training, and certificaiton. Besides being able to meet the LPS support staff face to face I think the biggest benefit of these types of events is meeting other people doing the same type of work as you. So the lobby bar was full. They had over 100 attendees.
I was asked to give presentations on real estate software and got to meet a lot of wonderful people. I also got to sit in on presentations given by LPS staff about features in their MLS system and answer questions from their customers. The back and forth in these conversations were very enlightening.
I have to say I was super impressed by the dedication of LPS support staff (SSMs in LPS parlance).
Many of us in the industry become super jaded dealing with the needs of real estate agents. Supporting them can be a tough gig. It was just refreshing to see a group of people who haven’t fallen in to that trap of cynicism.
Tip of the hat to LPS management team and the great staff they have put together and thanks for including me at your event.
To boldly go where no man has gone…
Hat tip to @IMLSTrainer for sharing his Vendor Alley Sticker in the wild shot.
Clareity Security signs four real estate boards in Canada to multi-year deals.
Oh Canada! Nice win for Clareity Security’s Scout of SAFEMLS.
Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, CREB® (Calgary Real Estate Board), the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton, and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (collectively known as the REB4 group).
Full Press Release Below:
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Four Canadian Real Estate Boards Sign Multi-Year Contracts for Clareity Security’s
Scout for SAFEMLS®
June 15, 2012 – Scottsdale, Arizona – Clareity Security (www.clareitysecurity.com), the pioneer of data security and listing syndication management solutions for the real estate industry, is pleased to announce the recent addition of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, CREB® (Calgary Real Estate Board), the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton, and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (collectively known as the REB4 group) to its customer family. The four boards signed multi-year Scout for SAFEMLS® agreements and will add the leading data security, account remediation and subscriber analytics tool for multiple listing services to their respective CoreLogic™ MLXchange™ MLS systems.
“After extensive multi-year research into available technologies to help protect our members’ valuable information and resources, we chose Clareity Security for their expertise in our marketplace and Scout for SAFEMLS for its abilities to address our specific business requirements”, said Mike Pedersen, Chief Information Officer, The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.
“We are very excited to deploy Scout for SAFEMLS to the Real Estate Boards in the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. With the addition of these four Real Estate Boards, Clareity Security proudly provides data security solutions to over sixty-five percent of real estate professionals across all of Canada.” stated Troy Rech, Vice President of Sales, Clareity Security.
Scout for SAFEMLS serves as a comprehensive solution that reduces administration and total cost of ownership compared to traditional strong authentication products. The SAFEMLS® intelligence-based authentication suite combines access intelligence and zero-footprint, strong authentication to accurately identify risks and then cost-effectively mitigate them. The foundation of the solution is an identity-profiling engine for aggregating user access data, creating statistical profiles, and detecting anomalies. Powered by patent-pending keystroke dynamics, SAFEMLS is unrivaled in its ability to accurately and transparently identify users, detect account sharing, account takeover, and differences between individual users not possible with traditional device or IP tracking.
About Clareity Security:
Clareity Security, located in Scottsdale, Arizona, is the leading provider of data security, Single Sign On and compliance management products and services for the real estate industry. Our Scout for SAFEMLS® and SAFEACCESS™ products help MLS organizations and real estate professionals easily and effectively safeguard sensitive consumer information against unauthorized access and provides strong authentication solutions for secure online transactions. Additionally, Clareity Security is the creator of Safe Syndication™, the leading listing syndication and IDX/VOW compliance management tool for brokerages and MLS organizations.
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Contact:
Amy Geddes, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
480-444-0014
Amy.Geddes at ClareitySecurity dot com
