Stefan Swanepoel presents a webinar with tips on buying international real estate at The Economist’s Fine Properties Fair – online October 18th. Chat with numerous real estate experts and get information on global properties you might not find anywhere else.
Economist Fine Properties
Also browse a collection of unique second homes, vacation estates and luxury rentals in top locations like:
• St. Maarten
• St. Kitts
• Boca Raton
• Miami
• Dominican Republic
• Turks and Caicos
• Belize
• Portugal
• Australia
• Canada
Register here.
(http://register.finepropertiesfair.com/?source=ss)

Each generation is unique – they react differently to and change what previous generations have done over time. With this understanding in mind, I find it valuable to not only appreciate where our own generation, and those generations before us, has come from, but also what to expect and how to work with the coming generations. Each generation approaches challenges differently and as a result, solutions are obtained differently. That is not to say that one solution is better than another, it is just to make note that if a …

There is an increasing departure from traditional offices with a move into cloud computing. In cloud computing, the word “cloud” is a metaphor for “the Internet,” so the phrase describes computing services (servers, storage, applications, etc.) that are delivered to an organization’s computers and devices through the Internet.
Customers pay for services on an as- needed, pay-per-use business model in which the cloud provider maintains the infrastructure, not the individual user. This virtualization of resources won’t, however, occur overnight. The single biggest hurdle to overcome is the difficulty in delivering …

As economist Hal Varian noted, in the early days of the Internet, every web page had in its footer, “Copyright 1996 Do not redistribute.” Now, a decade and a half later, those same pages have at their core a social aspect listed as “Copyright 2011 Click here to share with friends.” As a result, we find that sharing and storing all the information online, as opposed to a walled garden policy of guarding information, has become the golden standard for information access online. This shift speaks volumes to not only …

I’m cross-posting from MelAclaro.com this year’s Top 10 Lists for the most viewed articles on this blog and on MelAclaro.com. Breaking News About Future Articles on BusinessCasualBlog One bit of BusinessCasualBlog-relevant news piece: About half-way through the video above, you’ll find me musing about “parking” BusinessCasualBlog.com (this blog) in 2011….

Two weeks ago we started a discussion on RealBlogging on “What words best describe…” the past decade. The ides is to think up the best words or phrases that describe the past decade 2000-2010. After several interesting contributions, we’ve selected what we believe to be the Top 40 mentioned. From there we created the survey: Top 10 Words of the Decade. Below is the results of that survey:
Top 10 Words/Phrases of 2000-2010

Facebook
Google
Social Media
9/11
Foreclosures
“There’s an App for that!”
Blog
iPhone
Twitter
Green

What an interesting combination with Social Media and related sites taking several of the …

In 1999, Real Estate Confronts Technology noted that:
In the world of technological leaps, wireless Internet access will be the next obvious accomplishment.
The popularity of portable communication devices is predicted to continue as wireless service increasingly displaces traditional telephone lines. By 2002, wireless service for the Internet will be creating millions of new uses and opportunities. The cellular phone may soon emerge as the ideal Internet access tool and could even displace computers as the Web-connection device of choice by 2005.
And it has!
Mobile technology has enjoyed rapid evolution since its inception …