The cold December wind blew my son and I into a local vintage shop. I focused on old comics. He stuck his fingers inside the dial of a red plastic box, removed a heavy object connected to a long coil and asked if it was a phone. It took me a second to realize this [...]
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The jumbled scrapheap of real estate search
This is what real estate search looks like today. A swath of digital earth where every square inch is occupied. Chassis of search refiners stacked high. Drive train piles of lead generation forms. Huge containers filled with the nuts and bolts of options. Content fan belts. Hubcap API’s. And heat map fuel tanks filled with [...]
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It’s a trifecta: Top 3 online real estate sites are all-in on the tablet
Realtor.com released its iPad app today. We’ve had our hands on it for a little while now and it’s a solid first release. It introduces many of the elements found in the Realtor.com iPhone app to the bigger screen of the iPad, where they really shine. The app’s drawing feature alone is worth the price [...]
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The one where I finally find what I’ve been looking for in real estate search
I’m not usually one to click on ads. But this one was a little different. It caught my eye as I was flicking through the New York Times iPad app a few weeks ago.
Is there room for social in real estate search?
Go to any of the real estate websites in the Hitwise Top 10. It’s a pretty solitary experience. Starkly laid out listings. No humanity – just beds, baths and square feet. Seems out of sorts with our real world, where homes are filled with families, friends and neighbors. People. We’re embarking on a major project [...]
Maps make for messy results
Zillow released a new design for their search results pages last week, and while we’re strong advocates that websites should lead their users towards new experiences, this one feels like a bust. The comments on Zillow’s blog speak loud and clear. (hat tip to Jay Thompson for pointing this out) “The Map, which now dominates [...]
Near the closing bell of 2010, Trulia makes a move
Trulia announced today that it has acquired Movity, a still-in-private-beta startup that uses data visualizations to help people determine where to live. You can see some of their work here and here. A few quick thoughts on this deal:
The rise of Me Economics and what it means for real estate search
I just finished reading New York Times Bits blogger Nick Bilton‘s book I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works. In the book, Bilton shares his vision of a future populated by interconnected devices, digital natives (Gen-Net that has grown up in a Web dominated world) and consumnivors (those, like me, who relentlessly [...]
Google Images refreshed; real estate search still seems stale
Google launched a revamp of their Google Images search this week. The service has been a remarkable catalog of the web’s visual information since 2001 and now indexes over 10 billion images. But as of now, it’s even cooler. In a nutshell, Google tweaked the display of its image search results, creating a denser tiled [...]
Is the real estate search war starting to heat up again? Answer = I hope so.
Frontdoor.com just announced a pretty slick new feature to its website. On each of its roughly 4 million real estate listings, visitors now have the ability to choose from a dozen or so home styles and assign it to – or tag – the home. Further, the tagging feature — where homes get pegged as [...]
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