Research plays a large role in commercial real estate. Investment research, market conditions for building, development and sales are more important than ever in the global market place particularly for the real estate departments in large corporations. Enter the Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] found at http://www.zotero.org. Like the new Web 2.0 tools we are using for Property Banks, Zotero is a new extension that is easy to install on Firefox 2.0 where it seems like the browser now is the application.

Say for instance you are looking at MIT Center for Real Estate for information on commercial transactions and you run across their index on transactions and additional information you would like to save on Real Capital Analytics. Zotero will let you collect, manage and cite your research along with a host of other capability such as anotations.

Both Simile and Zotero projects are definitely worth your watching.