I think I’ve recovered enough now to actually post about it! 
Despite our best efforts to be prepared, the day started off a bit rough with a nearby mudslide taking out power in our building in the morning (meaning no hot coffee and no projector) and a 9-car pileup on a nearby freeway slowed [...]
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Posted by Dustin on March 4, 2008 in
Agents Advice,
Innovation,
Investment |
∞ As I said to when I started the 4realz interviews, I reached out to four players in the real estate technology space and asked them a similar set of 9 questions. I purposefully picked four people representing four different companies at different stages of development and different types/levels of funding. First was Marty [...]
Tags: 4realz Interview, interview, MLS, search, social network, tools, Trulia, web2.0
Posted by Dustin on February 22, 2008 in
4realz |
∞ …done even attempted to add value to their brands/websites by capturing the contributions/knowledge of their agents. I fully realize that brokerages don’t see themselves as publishes (except of listings!), but it would just take one large brokerage to substantially change the game if they could build the right tools and incentives that would encourage their [...]
Tags: blogging, brokerages, tools, traffic
Posted by Dustin on January 16, 2008 in
Innovation |
∞ … Or am I just having too much fun digging into the US Patent Office website for patent applications filed by Zillow employees? (Previous patent digs can be found on my post about Zillow’s auction patent…) THE FIND: A team of Zillow employees applied for a patent on an “Interactive floorplan viewer” in Nov ’06. [...]
Tags: listing, tools, Zillow
(some names left anonymous to protect the innocent) There’s a hell of a lot of VC money floating around this industry. I was surprised at how many people there were with lots of VC funding. Joel seemed to notice the same thing: “a whole new crop of real estate search sites that are going to [...]
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Out of curiosity about a fellow panelist at the CB event, I did a google search on Jorritt Van der Muelen, it brought back a few blasts from the past… Anyone else remember when Rob McGarty (pre-Redfin days) was talking about Zillow’s application to patent an auction marketplace around real estate listings? Well, the Google [...]
Tags: auction, listing, real estate, Redfin, tools, Zillow
Posted by Dustin on December 26, 2007 in
Innovation |
∞ …I believe him on two accounts: He resigned (was not fired). He is working on something interesting. I won’t say (even if I knew) what he is up to but would be fascinated to hear some speculation on what the Point2 team members who left should build. Is there any empty space left to build [...]
Tags: Point2, tools
Posted by Dustin on December 19, 2007 in
Innovation |
∞ …great new features on Estately: Notes on a property. I’m thinking that if Estately had a mobile search so that a buyer (or agent!) could leave notes while in the field, then that would be extra useful.
Tags: Estately, listing, search, tools
Posted by Dustin on December 18, 2007 in
Uncategorized |
∞ …I’m not zeeing much different. Maybe because I’m on a mac (using Firefox)… Or maybe because I’m searching in “The Valley” of LA… Or maybe because I simply don’t remember what searching by neighborhood was like on Zillow before… but I’m lot seeing much that lives up to the hype around Smart Search: “In fact, [...]
Tags: search, tools, Zillow
Posted by Dustin on December 15, 2007 in
Technology |
∞ …in their effort to break open your gmail contact list with the latest addition to Google Reader Interestingly, I mined the service last night for my Burger King post after seeing Paul Chaney had “shared” it in Google Reader. The gap between Google Reader and other feed readers just got even wider, so go ahead [...]
Tags: Google, social network, tools
