Heath Coker, Real Estate Broker

Here are some factoids that are seen in the youtube videos of TeacherTube . How many do you think are fact and how many are not?

Generation Y will out number Baby Boomers in 2010.
96% of them are in at least one "social network" already.
More people are using social media than are viewing porn.
12.5% of couples married in America last year met through "social media."
Radio took 38 years to attain 50 million users.
TV - 15 years.
Internet - 4 years.
IPod - 3 years.
Facebook - less than 9 months
IPod Apps - 1 billion downloaded in 9 months
There are more Facebook accounts than there are people in Indonesia (4th largest population in the world after China, India and USA)
China's version of Facebook, QZone reportedly has 300 million users.
17% of students above the High School level are taking classes online.
80% of companies use LinkedIn to help find employees.
Women 55-65 years old are the fastest growing segment of Facebook.
The next generation of buyers (Y & Z) consider email passe - they use twitter, etc.
What happens in Vegas can be found on the Net - in social media sites.
YouTube is searched almost as often as Google, and more than other search engines.
YouTube claims 100 million videos.
Wikipedia has over 13 million articles - over 3/4 of them are not in English.
There are over 200 million blogs with over 50% being updated daily.
1/3 of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
Most people trust peers more than ads.

I just read an article about a two year old that has an IQ that is off the charts. This "kid" has more intelligence than the people who make up the intelligence test. That is a mind bender!

If you were this smart what would you do? How would you keep from becoming frustrated with "the unintelligent" or even more so with the "wannabe intelligentsia"?

What would you devote you talent to? Maybe you would create new, beautiful music, or work to improve batteries so storage of energy could be furthered. Would you study the oceans - the last great earthly frontier? Or would you create a formula so you could win all the lotteries and give money to poor countries and people?

Here is the link to the article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6286512/Two-year-old-with-same-IQ-as-Einstein.html

( http://bit.ly/167hEM this is the shortened version so you can copy and paste it easier.)

What an amazing future for all of us if this 2 years old doesn't short circuit! It makes trying to SEO web pages, or twittering, or selling real estate, seem so basic.

Wow!

Here is a current interview with David Kirkpatrick. He is a past president of Paramount and one of the founders of Hollywood East. These are brief answers to questions everyone is asking. (And the names of those asking the questions are a good reminder to choose a good online name.)

Here is the link:

http://www.hollywoodeasttv.com/video/conversations-david

Find more videos like this on Hollywood East TV

He answers common questions on many people's minds like when "you" could begin working at the studios!

Preliminary Cape Cod & Island MLS Statistics for September 2009 compared with September 2008:

Total number of transactions is down 13%

Total dollar volume is down 7%

Single family sales are down 11% and median price is now $329,000

Condominium sales are down 8% and median price is now $235,000

Pending sales for September 2009 (445) are higher than they were in September 2008 (367) and higher than they were in August 2009 (367)! So there is good news on the horizon!

Most offices here on the Cape are reporting more properties going under agreement and more customers out looking!

According to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System every mortgage originator is now going to be fingerprinted, registered in a registry, and tracked through their life as an originator. This is evidently intended to monitor the originator and the loans they write.

If you ask your mortgage originator for their "Unique Identifier" and they don't know what you mean, they may not be current on the developments in their industry. The answer should be, "That isn't in effect yet, but I will get it to you when I get one."

Once more, government is making everything we do in business and personally, a monitorable event. It will either help people become more reliable, or make computer hackers more popular. (lol)

Woe to the mortgage originator who doesn't get a "Unique Identifier", but consumers will soon be able to learn as much about their originator as they can about the mortgage terms.

Happy listing and selling! (and originating)