This is a quick post informing everyone that we are doing various upgrades to some of our servers tonight starting at 12:30am PST 8/20/2008. There may be sporadic service during this time but the maintenance shouldn’t last more than 2 hours, but may last up to 4 in an extreme case. This may affect all products including all admin areas, ... Read more +
So, a few of you have expressed an interest in using the RSS feeds for content on your websites and blog sites. While I think this is a good idea I want to pose a couple questions. Is the goal of this to engage the customer in your self updating pages or is this for SEO reasons? If it is just for your customers and the overall fantastic ... Read more +
Browser compatibility is a very tricky thing. The websites you visit all are built upon historically loosely adhered web standards. On top of that, the browsers you use every day, until recently, standards haven’t always been a priority. So, what the heck am I trying to say?! Basically, it’s a tough job sometimes, but because each ... Read more +
Yesterday was a big day for us. First, we finally released our new admin (yay!), and second, we saw an announcement that Google finally released API tie-ins to their Street View imagery (see my post on Geek Estate or the original announcement). Although we had been getting requests to integrate Street View into our IDX solution (demo) for quite ... Read more +
We are wrapping up our beta of dsControlPanel today and going ahead with a soft release of dsControlPanel. To recap, our dsControlPanel is a combination of our dsAgentChat, dsSearchAgent, and dsAgentReach individual administration areas. Not only can you find all your tools in one place now, but we’ve also added a bunch of new features, and ... Read more +
On an almost weekly basis, I get asked, “How can I get more visitors to my website?” In response, my answer is always, “How often do you update your website?” The greatest thing about having your own, personal website is that you have complete control over everything that goes on it; having that control and being responsible... Read more +
About two weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend the 4Realz Internet marketing educational seminar as a sponsor. The event I attended was held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The venue itself is an amazing place; I fully encourage everybody who can visit to do so. In fact, the center actually plays host to many schools for ... Read more +
Around here, working with MLS data all day, you tend to run into a lot of bad MLS photos. In the past we’ve linked you guys to Athol’s Bad MLS Photo of the Day, but we decided to start featuring some of the gems we come across as well. Today we have for you, someone who may need help figuring out how to use their computer err camera. ... Read more +
Diverse Solutions is proud to announce our sponsorship of 4Realz Educational Seminars billed as “Valuable Internet Marketing Education for Realtors.” Dustin Luther and Jim Marks have always been fans our dsSearchAgent Mapping IDX we just never knew how much. Evidentially they like it so much they ask if it was okay if they used it as ... Read more +
On the night of Feb 21st we will be conducting server maintenance at our data center. We are making numerous upgrades to our servers to increase speed and reliability. While we do this maintenance between 11pm and 3am PST there may be short times of slow or sporadic service. This maintenance will NOT affect your email service. If you can ... Read more +