Realtor.com released a major site update in beta yesterday. I’m at 37,000 feet as I write this and don’t have much time, but wanted to offer a few quick observations:
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Don’t Fear the Scrollbar
We’re working on some very exciting projects at 1000watt right now. The emergence of a new generation of programming languages, coupled with radical new ways to interface with the web, has meant we can really begin to push the boundaries of visual and interaction design. Websites as we know them are changing. They can now be shaped [...]
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If you’re serving Noodles, just call it noodles
Our days are filled making decisions. But our decision-making process is often hampered by too much information, convoluted instructions and clutter – impediments that zap our time and energy. But these things can be avoided. And when they are, the results are liberating.
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Social distortion
What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing too terrible, really. Just a callout on the “About Us” page of a major consumer products Website. Pretty standard stuff. But you will notice the “ShareThis” widget. Which is not itself too offensive but is emblematic of something that’s been bugging me a lot lately. Laziness, namely. As it [...]
The end of real estate websites, agent journalism and more food for thought from last week
Posting has been light here. Work is intense and my daughter started Kindergarten last week. A double whammy. Here are a few notable things that blinked across my screen amidst the chaos” Flickr releases an iPhone app
The intersection of anyone and anywhere
Brokers, as you read this, if you’re thinking “he’s not talking about me,” think again. Your websites need work. Some require a lot of work. Some should be detonated. Kaboom.
The era of “Yeah, we have a mobile app” has officially ended
“To be honest, I think the iPhone app — maybe not in this first version, but out on the horizon — might be better than our Web site” That’s Zillow COO Spencer Rascoff in an Inman article covering the launch of the company’s iPhone app. It’s a remarkable statement. And I agree with it. But [...]
Google adds images to Street View
Google announced today that it has integrated location-specific images from its Panoramio product with Street View. For online real estate, this means a more visual property search experience — something I wrote about last week — is coming fast. Buyers…
Show me the market!
You may have noticed I am a big advocate of putting real estate market information into the hands of consumers. During most of the boom years, buyers and sellers made life-changing decisions based on thin slices of information. A few…
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