WellcomeMat, the online video host, laid out an ultimatum this week – effectively banning video slide shows from being hosted on their site.
Their rationale? According to the site, “slide shows and video are not the same things, regardless of the fact that slide shows can be exported/saved into a video format. They are not video…period.”
It’s [...]
A guest perspective from Kurt Weinsheimer, General Manager of Local Marketing Services at SpotRunner.com.
With the economic crisis continuing to cripple Wall Street, real estate agents are now forced to develop new ways to grow their business and attract buyers. As consumer spending and confidence in the market plummets, people will buy real estate and services [...]
Just in case you weren’t depressed enough with the state of your savings account balances or 401K statements, personal finance web site Mint.com now allows you to track your home’s value as part of your overall financial position.
If you haven’t tried the service, Mint.com is a fantastic site that gives you a single place where [...]
A guest perspective from Ashfaq Munshi, co-founder and CEO of Terabitz.
Tough times call for critical thinking.
Real estate broker – if you are dedicated to the brick-and-mortar brokerage office, but seek to change it up either to reduce cost or create an environment that infuses a spirit of change for customers and agents, you are not [...]
In an important case for bloggers and real estate sites in general, real estate aggregator Blockshopper got its hand slapped heavily this week for doing what many of us do… that is, publishing and linking to publicly available sources on the Internet.
Blockshopper, a site that was launched in 2006, was built to aggregate real estate [...]
Enormo, the portal formerly known as Properazzi (TPFKP), relaunched today with a brand new look and bunch of new services, as well as a series of geographically specific “gateways” in over 17 countries, including enormo.co.uk and enormo.ie.
The bulk of the changes came in the design of the site and refinements to the search engine, but [...]
I was out sick for most of last week so rather than regurgitate a bunch of old news; here’s a quick summary of the reaction to some of the bigger stories.
Redfin’s New (Old) Business Model
Redfin launched a referral-based business model that allows them to expand in to new markets. They also add data-rich review pages [...]
One of the challenges facing President Obama in dealing with the struggling housing market is going to be tackling the staggering number of foreclosures on the market.
In the Financial Stability Plan, introduced today by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the government is proposing spending $50 billion on foreclosure prevention programs (see Inman News story). And while [...]
Following up the conversation from last week on Zillow’s January traffic (see Bad Week for Trulia).
This from Property Portal Watch:
According to Zillow, traffic was 7.5 million unique in January. However, according to other sources such as compete.com, traffic is much lower. Irrespective of this, it appears that having lots of traffic doesn’t necessarily mean that [...]
First the news that they’re getting beaten handily by their rivals Zillow in the traffic game (see John Cook’s post on TechFlash).
According to Zillow’s COO Spencer Rascoff, Zillow pulled in 7,529,360 visitors in January. A pretty impressive achievement.
Compounding the situation for the big T though, comes news yesterday that Trulia’s city results have dropped out [...]
