Monthly Archives: July 2007

I love wordpress, so I thought this post from Mashable was a great resource to learn of new wordpress plugins. There’s tons of plugins on the list that I’ve never heard of, but seem to be great tools to help build a rich & fully-featured wordpress blog.

I’ll be in the Bay Area Tuesday through Friday of this week at the Real Estate Connect conference & the Bloggers Connect pre-conference. I’m participating in the early morning panel discussion on Wednesday at Bloggers Connect titled “Finding Your Voice.” The other participants in the panel are: Ardell DellaLoggia, Associate Broker, Sound Realty Philip Ferrato, Editor, Curbed SF Marlow Harris, Realtor, Coldwell Banker Bain Associates If you live in the Bay Area or will be attending the conference and would like to meet-up, drop me an e-mail (address is in my right sidebar). I’d love to chat about Zillow, social networking, web 2.0, or just shoot the breeze.

Matt Goyer from Redfin makes a good point — where do all the young seattle entrepreneurs hang out?? He also made a couple more good points — yes, Naked Truth was a success. And yes, those tequilla shots were fun. Thanks again to Redfin (and all the others) that sponsored the event and made it happen.

I came across the “Bloggers Bring in the Big Bucks” BusinessWeek story the other day — some bloggers make A LOT of money. For instance, it’s estimated Pete Cashmore at Mashable earns $1666,000 $166,000 per month from advertisers. That’s a lot of money. But could they make MORE? It got me thinking — what would happen if 10 high-profile tech/business bloggers joined forces on a multi-author blog? Not that they would, but imagine Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Om Malik, Pete Cashmore, Jeremiah Owyang, Darren Rowse, Jeremy Schoemaker, Fred Wilson, Jason Calacanis, and Rand Fishkin all wrote 1 post a week on 1 blog? Would you read it? I probably would. I guess the big question … Continue reading →

I’ll be at the Naked Truth (along with several other Zillow employees) tomorrow night in Capitol Hill, an event put on by Madrona Venture Group and Redfin aiming to connect entrepreneurs with journalists. They’ll be some big names for the panel discussion to kick it off — Rebecca Buckman from the Wall Street Journal, Fred Vogelstein from Wired, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, John Cook from the Seattle PI, and Tricia Duryee from the Seattle Times. The details: When: Tuesday, July 24, 2007. The panel starts at 5:30, the party starts at 6:30. Where: The Havana Social Club, 1010 East Pike Street, Seattle Who: every entrepreneur, dreamer, procastinator, narcissist, coder, starter, joiner, flim-flam man, gonzo PR guy, … Continue reading →

I said I’d give an update when I found a business to lend to on Kiva.org. I’m actually a bit disappointed in myself for taking this long. However, this morning I was listening to some interviews on the From Scratch radion show from NPR and found one with the co-founder of Kiva, Matt Flannery, and decided to finally take the plunge. So, which business did I choose to lend to? Kodjovi AZIAKLO from Microfund Togo. Here’s the description of his business from the Kiva website: Kodjovi Aziaklo is 41 years old, married, and father of seven children. His three wives are all farmers and are not able to help him support the family financially. Obliged … Continue reading →

I stumbled upon a great post titled 101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence that is probably worth taking a look at. I thought this was a pretty basic one that not enough people utilize – “Ask your friends to give you honest feedback on your site.” DUH — ask everyone you know; the more honest feedback, the better.