Archive for July, 2009

Wall St. Bust Now History

Well, at least in the eyes of these WSJ film producers it is, who are releasing a new web video series about the tumultuous period at the end of 2008.
Most of the info in the video probably won’t be news to many of this blog’s readers, but they did a nice job summing up all [...]

Dave Chappelle in Portland – A Marketing Lesson For All of Us

Thousands of fans packed Pioneer Square in downtown Portland at 1am last night to see and hear comedian Dave Chappelle perform. Later dubbed “Davestock” by some in the crowd, the event was a truly remarkable night.
The evening unfolded something like this.
Allegedly, Chappelle, while wandering around Portland yesterday, told a handful of people he would be [...]

Apture Lets You Create Rich Information Widgets

Apture is one of the coolest plugins I’ve stumbled across in a long while.
It allows you to instantly add rich, dimensional media to your blog or website by integrating text, images, video, maps, music and much more from over 50 sources; including Wikipedia, Flickr, NY Times, YouTube, Twitter and many others.
In the data rich environment [...]

Redfin Profitable

Says CEO Glenn Kelman, via Techcrunch
…the run rate is around $15 million. 2007 revenues were $5 million, 2006 revenues were $1 million.
Congrats to all the folks at Redfin. Their model, while clearly controversial, seems to be succeeding.
Their web site is world class (see 10 Kick Ass Real Estate Search Sites) and the company has pushed [...]

Google Maps Wins!

In my post New Firefox Brings Location to the Browser, I asked the following question around the new browser’s location awareness capability.
So the race is on – which will be the first site to implement this feature? Any bets?
Well today, we have a winner. That was fast.
The blue circle has come to your desktop with [...]

BHG Gives Great Search but Broken Results?

Realogy brand Better Homes and Gardens launched its revamped web site. Lots of new content, including a revamped video section and brand new video platform (provided by Brightcove). All very cool and it looks great.
So while visiting the new site it also gave me a chance to have another look at BHG’s search tool, which [...]

Google Gets Serious about Real Estate Search

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything coming out of the Googleplex around its moves in the real estate space.
And now, we wait no longer. On the Google LatLong blog today, Google announced that they have rolled out vast improvements in the way that they display real estate searches in their index; they are [...]