OH - FriendFeed

Today we added a FriendFeed Group for open houses providing another location on the Internet where your listings will be published.

OH - Technorati

OpenHomez.com listings are now featured on Technorati. Yet another place where your open house listings are displayed on the Web. The more eyeballs the better.

Yakaz.com

OpenHomez.com listings now appear on Yakaz.com, an International classified ads search engine. Please visit Yakaz.com to view their classified ads. You can find a complete list of OpenHomez.com listings on Yakaz.com here.

OH - Now You Can Tweet Too!

Today we added the capability to "tweet" your own open house listings to a twitter account of your choice. Here is what you need to do:

• Get a twitter account for your open house tweets. If you already have one and want your open houses "tweeted" there you should use your existing account.
  


• Login to your OpenHomez.com account. You'll need to create one if you don't already have one.
  


• Scroll down to the bottom and fill in your Twitter ID and Twitter Password. You'll also need to change the Twitter Mode to "ON" to enable tweeting from OpenHomez.com.
  


• Go to your My Listings page on OpenHomez.com. After each listing you'll see a Twitter icon (). Click on the Twitter icon to tweet that open house to the Twitter ID and Password provided in your OpenHomez.com User Account.
  

This is a manual process for the time being. You'll need to click the Twitter icon for each listing you want to "tweet". In the future, we hope to add an "Automatic" Twitter Mode so that any new listing added/updated will automatically be "tweeted" to the supplied Twitter account.

OH - Tumblr

We recently added Tumblr to our list of syndication sites. Each open house is added to the OpenHomez Tumblr public micro-blog making it visible to all Tumblr users and search engines.

You can search Tumblr for activities and events, including open houses, by zip code, city, street, etc. We have also tagged each posting with the zip code and the city of the open house.

There are many Tumblr Goodies to explore including iPhone apps, widgets, gadgets, and RSS feeds.

Enjoy.

Notify.me Of Search Updates

Today we added a feature to our SEARCH RESULTS page that will allow you to receive notification of changes to a specific OpenHomez search via email, IM, SMS, or a FREE desktop application.

These services are provided by Notify.me. We have provided a button on our SEARCH RESULTS page to Notify.me. This button will automatically pass the necessary RSS feed parameters to Notify.me to set up the notifications. You decide, via your Notify.me account how you want to be notified of changes.

OH - Twitter

OpenHomez is now on Twitter. We post new open house listings to Twitter as they arrive within the limits imposed by Twitter (about 100 per hour). You can follow OpenHomez on Twitter here. There are a variety of Twitter widgets and gadgets here.

On 4/27/09 we added a Twitter hashtag on the open house city name and zip code to our tweets. Now you can use Twitter Search to find open house listings in a specific city or zip code. Enter a city name or zip code proceeded by a # to search for the city or zip code you are interested in. (i.e. #Sacramento or #95835).

In the very near future, we hope to be able to allow you to automatically (or manually) post your listings to your own Twitter account.