Time Warner is divorcing AOL — about time. I’ll be interested to watch whether AOL can turn themselves around as a stand alone company. One thing’s for certain — they stood very little chance of turning their business around in their current situation, so it’s a very smart decision in my mind.

The brand new Zillow iPhone App has been in the works for several months now and I’ve been using a test version for a few weeks, but today is the day we were finally able to unveil it to the world. My friends and I are constantly walking around Queen Anne and wondering what some of the unbelievable homes on the South Side of the hill are worth and which ones sold recently, and now we can instantly look up that information on our iPhones. For the iPhone readers, I’d strongly urge you to try the app out. I’m biased of course, but I truly think it’ll change the way you walk around your neighborhood.

If you are an iPhone user and try the new app, please leave a review in the App Store.

My employer, Zillow.com, is mentioned in a new Sprint commercial — check it out.

Kiva.org used to enable you to share the fact that you funded a new loan on Facebook from the confirmation screen. I just funded 5 more loans tonight, and was going to share them on Facebook — but, as you can see on the screen shot below, the option is no longer there. Anyone know why they took the feature away?

There’s no question that Twitter is transforming our lives before our very eyes — or, at least for me, it is. Their growth is through the roof and social media marketing as we know it is certainly changing. Although VERY SLOWLY, it’s starting to replace e-mail in some cases (I DM my boss every now and then), my feedreader, time spent on facebook, and time spent blogging. I’m definitely noticing the difference in the real estate industry; it seems the conversation about Zillow (and everything else) has moved away from blogs and onto Twitter for the most part. I used to scan blogs for Zillow mentions (now it’s a lot of Zillow Advice threads that pop up in google blog search) and now I find myself scanning twitter instead.

Anyway, I don’t really have any grand conclusions right now — just thinking out loud about the latest in social networking…

I’m taking off for the warm weather (and I mean WARM) tomorrow for RE BarCamp Phoenix. If you’re in the area and want to chat, @me on twitter (@drewmeyers) or e-mail me (look in the sidebar) — or just find me in person on Thursday or at the meet up tomorrow evening.

I must say, though I admit this week has been nice in Seattle so far, I’m looking forward to the sun. Not sure about 95 degrees — I’m more an 85 guy — but I guess I’ll take whatever I can get. See you in Phoenix!

I thought this was somewhat entertaining & worth sharing.

This is an old video from the Zillow ATV escapade, but I’ve now had to ask around twice for the link to this video since it’s all but impossible to find via a google search. I thought I’d post it here so that next time I’m talking with colleagues about the fun we had, I know where to find the video.