Selling your home? Buy a domain!

There are plenty of ways to sell your home, real estate agents, for sale by owner, and now vizzvox.com. The online service allows agents or individuals to create narrated ads complete with images or video, includes hosting and domain name registration for an annual fee. www.640hobart.com for example is an ad created by a San Mateo, California based real estate agent and helped sell the property within a week of posting. It's a little like Power Point however, an application that I've never really liked... it's very easy to make your presentation really cheesy. The NY Times has more.

Papers losing out to web sites, d'oh!

Who would have seen this coming? Newspaper publishers are recording large drops in revenue and at least partly attributing it to real estate ads moving online. The housing market is also in a decline and that should be considered here but is anyone really shocked by this news? Analysts are afraid that real estate ads are going the way of the help wanted ad, that has already largely migrated online, are these people living in a cave? I'll admit, it hasn't been the meteoric rise that some predicted a decade ago but still this should not be taking anyone by surprise, as the Internet generation grows up it's only going to get worse for traditional media. Ever heard of a little site called craigslist? Globe and Mail story here.