Great news for those of you who are building your web sites in Wordpress. Zillow has announced the release of the new Local Market Explorer WP Plugin.
The LME plugin, which was built by Jonathan Mabe and Andrew Mattie, developers with Diverse Solutions, automatically creates rich pages on your blog that incorporate data from Zillow, Education.com, [...]
Last week Zillow laid the smack down on the developer of the iZillow iphone-optimized webpage (see Zillow for iPhone), demanding that he pull down the site.
Sellsius blog has the low down.
Bottom line. Zillow offered $250 for the domain – which prompted the developer to take his situation to the Internets and spawned a budding #zillowfail discussion on Twitter.
Good news today, [...]
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Ever since Zillow evolved into.. well, whatever it is now (some sort of real estate search, AVM, mortgage rate and discussion forum Frankenstein Hydra, as far as I can tell), the controversy over Zestimates seems to have quieted down.
Maybe it’s that the novelty of seeing what your home is worth has worn off as housing prices [...]
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Mobile real estate poised to take off? Palm seems to think so.
On a side note, I’m kind of digging the Pre… but doubt I’m ready to give up the iPhone. Yet.
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It’s no secret newspapers are dying. Most are struggling to transition to a new digital environment. And let’s face it. Most newspaper web sites are pretty awful. Many are stuck in legacy platforms, saddled with expenses and without the resources necessary to bring their sites up to 2.0 snuff. (Sound familiar brokers?)
And since craigslist has [...]
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 [...]
In a post over at CNet, Rafe Needleman tagged Zillow as one of “the next Kozmos” (for more on Kozmo check out Wikipedia). Needleman writes:
The real-estate site’s revenue model is advertising. Real estate and bank advertising. Unless the real-estate research site starts charging for foreclosure listings, I don’t see it doing too well in a [...]
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Zillow lays off 25 percent of workforce.
Technorati Tags: zillow, layoffs, web2.0, real estate 2.0
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Yawn.
Don’t get me wrong. I think a Zillow Ad Network makes some sense.
And unlike Valleywag, who calls it a “desperate ploy to make sales numbers,” I do see some value in publishers aggregating their advertising inventory for potential real estate advertisers.
I’ll go on the record, I don’t think this is a Hail [...]
Google Insights for Search is a fantastic new tool that allows you to dig into Google’s search volume patterns to find trends.
While I think there are a lot of ways you can use this tool (see agentgenius.com), I think that for most marketers the geographic breakdowns will be one of the most interesting – mainly [...]
