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Ardell asked about the meaning of “web2.0″ yesterday and David G of Zillow gave an easy-to-understand definition that Web2.0 is the “read/write web”. In an unrelated thread, Ed pointed us to a rap video sang by the Trulia Markermen… These conversations converge in that the cost of producing and hosting videos in a [...]

Dustin’s comments in his last blog post got me thinking (which is never a good thing). Dustin said “You just set my blogging efforts at Move back by a year or so”. To which I reply, “I hope not! You don’t have that much time!”
One of the cool good things that has happened recently is the [...]

If you haven’t seen it, Microsoft released a demographic tool that gives the estimated demographic for a search term and/or URL. Just for fun I threw a few of the major real estate technology sites (as well as the search term [real estate], kept track of the results, and that pushed this chart out [...]

Congrats goes out to all the contributors on Rain City Guide! We were nominated as a finalist for the “Most Innovative Blog Award” by Inman News. In my world, contributors are not only the people with their photo up on the sidepanel, but also those of you who return to give your [...]

So, we’re moving to Southern California, and we have some obvious questions we want answered:

What neighborhoods should we be looking in?
What neighborhoods can we afford?

Here’s what we do know:

I’m going to work at location 30700 Russell Ranch Rd, Westlake Village, CA.
We can afford a home in the $500 to $600K [...]

If you are building a real estate search site and you didn’t hear the warning shot fired by Google today, then you don’t really deserve to be in business much longer. While just about anyone building a real estate search tool should be concerned, I’m going to focus this article on my friends over at [...]

It was wonderful to have some quality time with the Trulia last night and I had a blast chatting about real estate search with them.
Sami and Kelly were great sports and the group ended up spending about an hour and a half discussing Trulia’s business plan and how others (like RCG!) might plug into [...]

I just spoke with Sami Inkinen and Kelly Roark of Trulia. They are currently making the rounds in Seattle, and we all agreed that it would be fun to spend some time talking “real estate technology” while they are in town! (Why aren’t they in Seattle yet???)
However, knowing that I’m not the only person [...]

About a week ago I noted that the Zillow Blog added Rain City Guide to its sidepanel and that I hadn’t found out about both the Redfin Blog or the HouseValues blog because they hadn’t spread any link love. As Rain City Guide hasn’t done much to deserve traffic from either site, I didn’t really [...]

I just got an email announcing that Trulia launched in New York!
Congratulations Pete and Sami! I know that was pretty high on your list of ToDo items!
Are you wondering what Trulia is?
I wrote a post on their service when they launched in California. In general, they have one of the nicest interfaces [...]