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Zillow Adds Neighborhood Pages, Discussions, Polls, and Wiki Enhancements
By Drew Meyers | July 10, 2007
So, Zillow (my employer) is at it again — and I’ll be keeping track once again.
Make sure to tune into the Zillow Blog for updates.
Update @ 9:42: Zillow is now live again!
Update @ 9:57: Check the Zillow Blog for an overview w/ links!
There are a couple primary features being added to the site tonight (site should be live shortly):
- Neighborhood Pages — discuss your neighborhood, such as Queen Anne in Seattle.
- Zillow Discussions — talk about a topic of interest, such as Home Buying or Home Selling. Or connect with fellow real estate professionals.
- Polls — anyone can suggest a poll that is either targeted to a selection of ZIP codes or targeted nationally (shown anywhere polls appear on Zillow). The polls will display throughout neighborhood pages and Zillow Discussions.
- Enhancements to the Real Estate Guide (wiki) — there is now an integrated search module in the upper left corner of every wiki page, plus you can now upload images to the wiki (yay!).
Here’s the RE.net play-by-play for you Zillow fanatics out there:
- No surprise, Greg Swann from BloodHoundBlog breaks the story — “Zillow.com’s latest release me-too’s Trulia.com’s recent me-too release: Can either make the leap from ghost-town to community?“
- John Cook posts “Zillow enters citizen journalism” at his Venture Blog
- Mashable’s Kristen Nicole posts “Zillow to Get More Social“
- Ken at Realivent posts “Zillow releases a slew of new features“
- Sramana Mitra writes “Web 3.0 and Zillow“
- Cristina Ledesma posts “Zillow.com expands real estate community to the neighborhood“
- Cory Bergman posts “Zillow expands into hyperlocal news“
- The Real Estate Bloggers posts “Zillow Goes Hyperlocal With Neighborhood Pages“
- Glenn at Inman News writes “Zillow zooms out with neighborhood discussions, data“
- Eric Berlin posts “Zillow Leads the Social Networking Charge on the Real Estate Market“
- Joshua Jaffe posts “Zillow launches social networking features to catch up to Trulia“
- Joel Burslem at FoREM posts “Zillow Flounders A Bit With New Release“
- CoolDMZ posts “Community real estate features on Zillow“
- Donna Bogatin writes “Zillow: Can We Talk? Real Estate Gets Social“
- Legacy Group posts “Zillow annouces 6,500 Community Websites“
- Jeff O’Brien writes “Zillow Goes Crowdsourcing“
- Ben Barren posts “‘However, the bulk of the content on the Neighborhood Pages we have left up to you, the Zillow community.’“
- Rafe Needleman posts “Zillow adds community pages” at Webware
- Tiza Major-Posner (my project blogger apprentice) posted “Zillow.Com - Why I Like Them and Why You Should Too!“
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July 11th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Thanks Drew…
I’m hitting the Zillow Discussions hard. I’m going to pwn these boards!
July 11th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
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Glad you like the features! If you have feedback, please send it my way.
July 19th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
The neighborhood designations on Zillow for Portland are pretty inaccurate. Where did Zillow get the list of neighborhood names from? My neighborhood (Sabin) isn’t listed and all the houses here are listed as being in King neighborhood. When will Zillow work out the kinks?
July 19th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Thanks for the feedback. Please leave neighborhood feedback here - http://www.zillow.com/forum/site/ViewThread.htm?tid=759