The guys at 1000Watt have redrawn the Real Estate Web 2.0 mindmap. Make sure you go and check it out.
What’s impressive is that despite the gruesome economic news and horrific market conditions many in the industry are facing there is still so much innovation happening on the technology side.
I think this is going to be [...]
There have been numerous rumblings over the last week that suggest that Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in an attempt to shed some weight and boost its profitability. Now the New York Times is reporting it, suggesting the announcement could come at the end of the month.
So how is this going [...]
Earlier this week, Apple released a firmware upgrade for the iPhone (and the iPod Touch) that allows you to set any web page as a “Web Clip” (basically, a shortcut icon) on your phone’s start screen.When you do this however, the default image it uses is just a thumbnail of your homepage - which, to [...]
by Iguana Jo
News that Vast.com has launched a new real estate search engine (see Inman’s Search platform launches with 2.4 million homes) isn’t nearly as interesting as who’s launching it.
Ben Clark is leading the company’s real estate business unit and its foray into this industry. And if that name sounds familiar, it should. From Inman [...]
I’ve had a few days to play around with Realtor.com’s new Neighborhood tool and I like a lot of what I see so far. But I’ll get the obvious criticisms out of the way first; it really, really doesn’t play very well yet with Firefox in OSX (or at all in Safari) - there are [...]
Here’s Jordan Behan of TellTenFriends on Real Estate 2.0.
(h/t Ubertor Real Estate Blog)
I met Jordan in Vancouver during my recent talk there (see Real Estate 2.0 North). He’s a sharp cat and any Realtors north of the border should definitely look him up if they want help tackling the challenge of bringing Web 2.0 into [...]
Zillow gets $30M more for online real estate raising their total investment to date to $87 Million in Venture Capital following earlier rounds from Benchmark Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures and PAR Capital. That’s an awful lot of bones.
John Cook asks the one question I’ve been wondering about for a while - at a 10x return [...]
by seawallrunner
Among other things, my recent visit to Vancouver reassured me of two facts. First, the city remains an anomoly in a sea of bad real estate news. The city is on fire. Non stop foreign investment, the 2010 Winter Olympics and a constricted downtown core means there’s a forest of construction cranes and [...]
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 [...]
Bad days in Seattle? I hope it didn’t have anything to do with my visit…
First, Zillow spills the beans on its upcoming Neighborhood feature (h/t Baron Briefs). Last week, an stray email was fired off to anyone who had claimed a home in their database that read:
Hello ,
Since you claimed your [...]
