I’ve had an idea kicking around in the back of head for a few months, but not the time to write it down. As I’m currently on a flight with some time to kill, I thought I’d write an abstract of the idea for the blog to wet people’s appetites for a white paper to come soon.
In talking with realtors and developers who make use of our various RETS projects like libRETS, ezRETS, and vieleRETS it seems a majority of users are replicating the MLS database for web-based advertising purposes. Following CRT’s mission of playing with a diverse set of technology and following Perl’s Motto of “there’s more than one way to do it” I’ve been tinkering with an idea of how MLS’s can share that data in alternative ways.
Since every good project needs a catchy name that you can turn into a fun acronym, I’ve decided to call this the Syndicated Advertising-based Listings Engine or SALE. Besides, this makes promoting the project fun with catchphrases like “Everybody wants a SALE!” But what is this project you ask? Continue reading ‘Yet another data feed method or “Everybody wants a SALE!”’
