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Friday Flash: Homes.com, map mysteries and beautiful books
Homes.com issued a press release claiming “Homes.com Ranks #2 in User Page Views and Time Spent on Website, Following Only Realtor.com.” Now, traffic numbers are more susceptible to spin than a presidential debate, but it is interesting to me that Homes.com seems to be showing signs of life. A couple years ago they were floating [...]
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Friday Flash – things to note from the week gone by
Each Friday, I’m going to jot down some of the things that caught my eye during the course of the week – and which may be useful to you as a sort of online real estate cheat sheet. This is my first installment. … Google “got out of real estate” – though, in reality, it’s [...]
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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:
Trulia announces profitability, I ponder alternative metaphors
Techcrunch posted a story earlier today in which Trulia CEO Pete Flint states that the company became profitable two months ago. He also reiterates (we have heard this before) that the company’s revenues have doubled since this time last year. First of all, congratulations are in order. Trulia employs 160 people – a lot of [...]
As Estately grows, so does consumer choice
DC residents now have a virtual panoply of real estate search sites to choose from. Estately, the IDX-powered online brokerage, just moved into DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia today, adding 60,000 new homes and condos to their database. In addition to Estately, lucky Mid-Atlantic residents can thaw themselves with dreams of warmer springtime home [...]
Looking back at Real Estate Connect New York
I looked down into the touch-screen display at JFK: “Upgrade to first class for $250.” There was no way I could justify this. I can’t afford it, frankly. But my body cried to be horizontal; my mind begged for stillness. Done deal.
Google may kill Microsoft, but it won’t kill real estate
You’ve probably read the posts about Google’s move to make searching real estate via Google Maps slightly less obscure. This morning you read about the announcement of Chrome OS, which looks to many like the stone that just might hit Microsoft right between the eyes. These two announcements underscore something I have long believed about [...]
Lots of big news yesterday
It’s been an eventful 36 hours in the world of technology and real estate. In case you missed it: Google launched Latitude, a service that lets users identify their location, and that of their friends, on a mobile phone. We’ve…
Hell breaks loose in the new listings war
I returned from my vacation last week to find my inbox and reader filled with talk about listing coverage, comprehensiveness and quality sparked by a somewhat ham-fisted PR gambit by Roost. I had just written about this the week before….
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