I love going to the movies. I love the whole experience; the popcorn, the soda, the previews, being a part of the big audience, getting caught up in the plot, etc. Being a big fan of marketing, I always love a movie a little bit more if it has a great business theme or does [...]
Just in case you hadn’t had enough already, Yahoo! News has re-purposed Redfin’s controversial 60 Minutes segment into a new microsite called Real Estate: Buying And Selling Online.
Unfortunately, the original Lesly Stahl segment has been split into several short clips, losing whatever coherence the original had and making it nearly unwatchable (this was presumably done [...]
photo by Lizette Greco
This, from today’s Wall Street Journal, author Jeremy Wagstaff tries to engage in a house hunt using the latest technology.
Finding a Place to Live
Is More Low-Tech Than You Think
August 10, 2007
The past few days, I’ve been engaged in that most stressful of pursuits: looking for a place to live, when [...]
That sound you hear is the great web crash of 2007.
More seriously, TechCrunch says a major SF power outage may be to blame for some pretty major sites going down today. Technorati, Netflix (my quuueeeuuue…), Yelp, Alexa and others have been affected. Valleywag, on the other hand, is blaming a drunk employee at the hosting [...]
I’m pretty bearish on so-called ‘neighborhood’ sites right now. Relying on user generated content to provide information on local areas seems to me to be a tenuous proposition at best. This is particular evident at some of the higher-profile sites; the ghost town that is StreetAdvisor, Yourstreet folding up shop (see Yourstreet is Now Empty) [...]
by danihernanz
RealTyger is the new product from the minds at RealEspace (see RealEspace Launching Soon), led by Jeff Corbett, The XBroker. Both will be launching next week at Real Estate Connect.
So what is it? In a recent blog post, Jeff reveals it is:
An exclusive online real estate community, or social network, by Professionals for [...]
I stumbled upon this interesting tidbit recently while doing some research for another post. It looks like you can now filter a search for real estate listings by brand using Google.
This looks likes the initial implementation of the deals signed last year to feed listings into Google base (more on StartupSquad).
Right now the results are [...]
So Redfin’s roadtrip paid off big time.
They just closed a $12 Million series C round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, giving them close to $20 Million is total financing to date. Techcrunch reports the company is gearing up for war. Marlow Harris at 360Digest and Greg at BloodhoundBlog, on the other hand, posit the investment [...]
I guess I’ll join the pile on. Terabitz launched this morning, and was greated largely by a big yawn in the RE blogosphere.
The site looks great. Works easy enough as well. So, why the disinterest then?
Part of it might be a general malaise I sense sweeping online real estate. The big ideas that launched a [...]
MONEY magazine’s annual Best Places to Live feature launched today. Congrats to Middleton, WI which came out on top of the Great American Towns. As in year’s past, the list was compiled by Sperling’s BestPlaces. It also uses local market data from OnboardLLC.
This year however, CNNMoney has done something new by incorporating Trulia’s search engine [...]
