Posted by Joel Burslem on Monday, July 31, 2006 Filed Under: Industry News
What’s a sign that there’s another bubble brewing in Web 2.0?
Sites like Reply! pick up $17 million in VC funding. From MercuryNews.com’s report on ConnectSF:
Companies exhibiting their wares ranged from small start-ups to known names that have raised millions in venture capital — think Zillow, which recently raised another $25 million, or Reply of Walnut [...]
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Monday, July 31, 2006 Filed Under: Industry News
It was a busy week in real estate last week, what with with Inman’s Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco and big announcements from both Zillow and Trulia.
No doubt that there’s lots to catch up on, so without much further ado – here’s this week’s Carnival of Real Estate:
Pick of the Week: sellsius does [...]
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Saturday, July 29, 2006 Filed Under: Internet
Tony Ruscoe was playing around in Google’s Sandbox, digging for new services the search engine Colossus may be working on, and came up with a reference to Google Real Estate Search. Check out a screen shot of the page. Does this mean they’re getting more serious about a dedicated real estate search tool, more than [...]
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Friday, July 28, 2006 Filed Under: Blogging
Just a quick reminder heading into the weekend, to get your submissions in to the Carnival of Real Estate. This blog will be hosting the Carnival starting on Monday. You have until Sunday evening to get your posts in for consideration.
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Friday, July 28, 2006 Filed Under: Industry
CNET’s News.com reports on Real estate’s Net turf war.
Technorati Tags: connectsf, disintermediation
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Thursday, July 27, 2006 Filed Under: Industry, Internet
In a move that’ll surely send a collective shudder through the developer community, Trulia has unleashed it’s map interface into the wild. Brokers and agents whose listings are already captured and displayed on Trulia’s site can now take Trulia’s map and display it on their own sites. Trulia cranks out the necessary HTML code and [...]
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Thursday, July 27, 2006 Filed Under: Industry News
Erik at RealtyThoughts has been on a tear lately with some great liveblogging on the sessions from ConnectSF.
He’s been posting videos of some of the panels dicussions on YouTube. Here’s Ron Hornbaker of Propsmart.com giving his 2-minute elevator pitch:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=pGCz4-4nbGo]
Technorati Tags: connectsf, propsmart, youtube
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Thursday, July 27, 2006 Filed Under: Blogging
Looking for more coverage of yesterday’s developments at ConnectSF?
Zillow Blog has a great summary.
sellsius° is doing a bang up job of aggregating posts – check it out.
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Thursday, July 27, 2006 Filed Under: Blogging
Zillow and Redfin have been at it for a while, and now Trulia has finally launched Trulia Blog. Looks like it got up and runnning last month. (Now, if they had only linked to me then I would have caught it earlier… ) Nevertheless, great to see them contributing to the discussion – [...]
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Filed Under: Internet
Some announcements trickling out of ConnectSF – hot on the heals of its announcement that it’s sharing its data with Yahoo, Zillow has announced that even the little guy will soon be able to integrate their Zestimates into their web site.
From the Zillow Blog:
We believe that real estate is all about the long tail. [...]
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