Location awareness is one of the killer features in the new iPhone. Especially in real estate apps, like Zillow’s app, which recently broke ½ million downloads.
We all know the old axiom with property, right? Location, location, location.
Now that can be translated to your desktop, in addition to your phone. The new version of Firefox (3.5) [...]
Outside.in has you covered.
They have just launched a new product called Outside.in for Publishers - what they’re calling “an out-of-the-box hyperlocal news section for your website”.
Features include:
Customized Neighborhood News Pages for every neighborhood in your market.
Rich, interactive maps, headlines, and excerpts.
Access to aggregated stories from all local blogs, news sites, and other sources—including Twitter!
Tools to curate [...]
Realestate.com, the online real estate destination owned by the online mortgage giant LendingTree, rolled out a new sitewide redesign last week.
The new design is clean, fast and eminently usable. And while not as tricked out as some of its competitors, the site is a very capable competitor. Results are returned in a very easy to [...]
Estately has been playing the slow and steady game, but it’s one that I’m increasingly convinced is working out for them.
Today, they announced the addition of their tenth metropolitan market as they bring Atlanta under their fold. Adding 127,000 listings from two Georgia MLS databases, it now brings the total number of properties for sale [...]
MLS powered search site Roost launched a brand new redesign last week (see Roost.com announces redesign).
Unfortunately, it undid a lot of what I thought made the old site great. But hopefully we only seeing the first iteration of this next generation site and the site will continue to evolve.
Here are a couple things I picked [...]
Like it or not, Cyberhomes just really hasn’t caught on like some of it other contemporaries. Technically it’s a very competent site and one that I’ve always thought was definitely under-recognized. But even I’m guilty myself of forgetting it’s out there somedays.
Part of the problem may be the disjointed approach it has taken to its [...]
Tune out if you’ve had enough of all the Facebook talk.
Following on the previous posts about Frontdoor’s implementation of Facebook Connect, Hotpads has rolled out a revamped homepage that also features Facebook integration prominently.
As with Frontdoor, you can now login to HotPads using only your Facebook account. The nice thing is Hotpads lets you dive [...]
The nice folks at Scripps sent me an email fleshing out more detail about Frontdoor’s Facebook Connect integration. I’ve excerpted a few sections below since they give some greater context to the feature.
As you surmised, the Facebook Connect rollout is a work in progress. Truth be told, we’re about 50% finished with the actual [...]
Frontdoor.com, HGTV’s foray into the real estate search space, now lets you sign in to the site (sort of) with your Facebook account.
It’s a great idea in theory, I’m all for lowering the friction points that exist to interact with any site. Sign up processes, while necessary, are often clumsy and time consuming as a [...]
Over the last few years many of the major real estate search sites have moved over to Google Maps from Microsoft’s Virtual Earth as their mapping API of choice (Redfin being the most recent notable defector). HomeGain, Trulia, Homefinder, Estately and others all use Google Maps. But, interestingly, both the #1 and #2 sites; Realtor.com [...]
