This Friday is my last day at Zillow. I’ve spent the last 4 years with a fantastic team innovating in the real estate and mortgage industries. It’s been an incredible experience and I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished. So many people go through life hating their jobs, and I can genuinely say I loved (the vast majority of) my job. I’m extremely thankful for that, and frankly, wouldn’t have stayed 4 years if I didn’t enjoy my job. Of course, you’re probably wondering what is prompting me to move on. This was certainly a decision I wrestled with long and hard and did not make lightly. There were of course numerous factors that went into my decision, some personal and some professional. At the end of the day, I just needed a change for the sake of change. I’ve traveled extensively both internationally and domestically but have never really “lived” anywhere outside of Seattle. That’s going to change.

Over the past 4 years, I’ve worked with so many fantastic people, both internally and externally, and have built some incredible relationships that extend well beyond business. I’ve learned volumes from colleagues David Gibbons, Spencer Rascoff, Diane Tuman, Liam Lavery, and Amy Bohutinsky (among many others). Update: Michael Dougherty and Jeff Somers, both no longer with Zillow, should also be included in that list. Yet with a primarily externally facing job, I’ve learned just as much from those outside the friendly confines of Zillow; individuals such as Mike Price (who by the way needs to get on WordPress), Kris Berg, Jay Thompson, Ines Hegedus-Garcia, Jeff Turner, Eric Stegemann, and Jim Marks. And honestly, please don’t take it wrongly if I didn’t mention you here; if I had to name everyone, the list would go on and on (and on and on) and I’d never finish this post.

What’s next? For the answer to that, all I will say is that traveling internationally is part of my 2010 plans (no surprise there). I will be staying on in a consulting role for Zillow.com. Outside of that I’ve been discussing various opportunities with a number of parties, but will wait until I flesh out those ideas to completion before sharing details.

Thank you to everyone, both at Zillow and externally, for all the wonderful memories and opportunities presented to me over the past 4 years. Everyone has been great to work with, but I have to extend an extra thanks to David for all the guidance he’s given me over the past several years. Thank you to Rich and Lloyd for starting Zillow with the vision to bring transparency to the real estate and mortgage industries. Without them, obviously none of this would have been possible. I’m still confident in the direction the company is headed and it goes without saying that I wish Zillow and all my colleagues there the best of luck going forward, and will do whatever I can to help them succeed.

There is so much more I could say, but I’ve purposely tried to keep this post short in fear of this becoming a novel. I’ll continue to keep people updated with my whereabouts and career plans here and on Twitter. If you have any questions or comments you don’t feel comfortable sharing in the comments, feel free to e-mail me (meyers dot drew at gmail).

It’s been a wild ride; now onto the next chapter in my life…

I’ve been at Zillow for just about three and a half years. I haven’t tackled accounting, but I’ve been on almost every business team we have (sales, partner relations, customer service, marketing) at one point or another since starting as an intern in September of 2005. Working at a start-up that has gone from “stealth” to 8.9 million unique users a month in 3 years has been quite a journey. Here are a few lessons I’ve learned along the way:

• Pick your battles — I’m an opinionated guy, sometimes too much so. But it’s because I’m passionate about what I do — if I wasn’t, quite frankly, I’d be doing something else. But regardless of how badly you want to, you can’t fight every battle.  Know when to push, let up, escalate, concede, etc. Know that some battles are not worth fighting. This lesson could also be “Be strategic about using your political capital – you only have so much of it”
• Don’t use social media marketing if your product sucks — If you have a crappy product, no amount of social media marketing will work regardless of how many resources you throw at it. After all, social media marketing is REAL; expect your audience to puke all over you if they don’t see value in your product.
• Persistence is key — This is a biggie. Everyone is busy, myself is included. To get things done, you have to be persistent and confident what you are advocating for is the correct decision/course of action. Follow up, follow up, follow up.
• Partnerships are like friendships — they take time and effort to nurture. If both sides aren’t willing to put in equal effort, the partnership is not going to be a success in the long run.
• Choose the right technical solution from the get-go — yes, certainly this is easier said than done, but if at all possible, make sure the technical solution you go with is right from the start. For instance, migrating Zillow Blog from typepad to wordpress was a nightmare that I would have rather not had to do (we should have just picked wordpress to start with). However, realize that sometimes the wrong decision is made initially and that’s okay. My advice in those situations is to migrate over to the correct solution as quickly as physically possible once you realize that you should be using another technical solution. The longer you wait to migrate, the more time and effort you’ll likely spend doing the migration.
• LISTEN — I can not stress the importance of this one enough. There are so many people/companies who are GREAT at talking, but horrible at listening; don’t be one of them.
• Take advantage of public speaking opportunities — If you’re given opportunities for public speaking engagements, take them. It’s such valuable experience to have in the long run that will make you a more confident person. Plus, just as blogging puts you in a spotlight that often results in unexpected opportunities to arise, public speaking will lead to opportunities in a similar fashion.

I’m sure there are a few others I’m missing, but this is a start. Maybe I’ll do a Part 2 on this topic at some point in the future.

For those who don’t follow my writing on Geek Estate Blog, the real estate technology blog that I manage as part of my day job at Zillow.com, I wrote a post the other night that is relevant to both my personal and business life that you may find interesting –Personal Business, Business Personality, and Social Media.

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.

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.

When I was on Forbes reading this post as part of the myspace-citysearch posts I just wrote, Zillow CEO Rich Barton came up in the Forbes Video network module. I hadn’t seen the video before, so thought the video was new (I was wrong) and wanted to quickly embed it in a blog post straight from that screen. No luck. But thanks to FromCarl for helping me figure the embedding thing out on twitter.

Wow, it’s been a big day relating to the state of the housing market — there’s help on the way! Head over to Zillow Blog to learn more about how 9 Million Families are to get mortgage help through Obama’s Housing Plan. I’m guessing refinancing is going to be a hot topic for the next few weeks as people watch what where mortgage rates end up following this.

Tonight, Zillow officially launched the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace!

I’ve been at Zillow for over 2 years, and this defintitely is the release I’ve been most excited for since Zestimates launched in February of 2006. When talking about this product with close friends and family (I know, I spilled the beans to a few people early), the general reaction was a mixture of “holy cow, this is going to work” and “WOW”. Both my step-dad and dad have filled out a loan request in the last year, and both have been hounded repeatedly with phone calls and e-mails from mortgage brokers wanting to sell them a loan. I’m not blaming mortgage lenders for wanting a return on the $60 (or whatever the $$ value is) they paid for the lead, but that doesn’t mean its a consumer friendly process. Zillow is putting the power back in the hands of the consumer during the mortgage request process, which I think is long overdue. I’ll spare the details about how the product works — you can read Rich’s overview at Zillow Blog or go check out the actual Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. Remember, if you know anyone currently looking for a loan, please tell them about Zillow’s mortgage offering!

I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to track everything, but here’s a list of coverage for Zillow Mortgage Marketplace:

• Spencer Rascoff — yes, he’s my boss’ boss and it might be considered cheating since he knew about it ahead of time — takes the nod for the 1st blog coverage.
• Todd Carpenter writes “Zillow Mortgage Marketplace launches. What it means to consumers and loan originators.”
• Mark Hendrickson at TechCrunch wrote “Zillow Disrupts Lending Market With Mortgage Marketplace.”
• The OC Register’s Matt Padilla posts “Zillow takes on mortgage industry.”
• Rhonda Porter posts “Zillow Launches On-Line Mortgage Rate Quotes” at Rain City Guide.
• Greg Swann writes “Zillow.com takes advertising demographics to never-before-seen places” and “Zillow.com’s long-awaited mortgage lending service offers anonymous customized loan quotes to consumers, affording loan originators the opportunity to compete transparently for free mortgage leads.”
• John Cook at the Seattlepi writes “Zillow unveils new mortgage marketplace.”
• Elinor Mills at CNET reports “Zillow Launches’Mortgage Marketplace’.”
• The Daily News Tribune writes “Real estate Web site Zillow launches mortgage site.”
• Joel Burslem at FOREM posts “Questions About New Zillow Mortgage Marketplace.”
• Kevin Boer over at 3Oceans posts “Irony Of Ironies: The Mechanical Turk Behind The “Zestimate of Mortgages” Turns Out To Be Not An Algorithm … But A Real Live Mortgage Person!“
• Jay Thompson posts “Zillow.com Releases Mortgage Marketplace.“

Update 4/3:

• Modelry presents “Zillow Mortgage MarketPlace Launches: LendingTree in Reverse, For Free“
• Trace Richardson writes “11.5 Reasons Why the Zillow Mortgage MarketPlace Will Not Work in its Current Form and Will Likely Move to Exclude Most Lenders in the Future.”
• Morgan Brown at Blown Mortgage posts “Zillow Mortgage Launches – How do you rate?“
• The USA Today reports “Zillow launches mortgage marketplace site.”
• Peter Viles at the LA Times writes “Zillow enters mortgage marketplace.”
• Kristin Nicole at Mashable posts “Zillow Marketplace Makes Home Loans More Transparent.“
• Dustin Luther posts “Zillow took the fun out of mortgages.”
• Greg Sterling writes “Real Estate Search Engine Zillow Opens “Mortgage Marketplace”” and “Zillow Creates Free Lead-Gen for Lenders.”
• David Rodnitzky posts “Zillow Enters The Lead Gen Fray for Mortgages.”
• Owen Raun writes “Zillow Mortgage Option – our first few hours.”
• Saul Hansell at the NYTimes posts “Zillow and the Idealism of Engineers Going Shopping.“
• Joseph Ferrara posts “Zillow Mortgage Marketplace is Lead Generator for Mortgage Lenders“
• Pat Kitano writes “Zillow Mortgages is essentially a free open marketplace.”

At Zillow, we’re getting close to unveiling the consumer-facing mortgage product we hinted at quite some time ago. The news tonight is that lenders can now sign-up (veryyy soon) — lenders CLICK HERE. We’re still a few weeks from launching the consumer piece of the product, so we can’t provide details of exactly how it will work yet — but I can personally say I’ve been extremely excited for the release of this product for quite some time.

Update 9:46 pm: Here’s the announcement on Zillow Blog.

Here’s some very early coverage:

• The story was broken by Greg Swann at BloodHound
• Morgan Brown at Blown Mortgage
• Todd Carpenter
• Rhonda Porter

Stay tuned for updates on the Zillow Blog

Update: Zillow is now Live with Zillow Smart Search (among other things)

So…we are doing a Spring Remodel on Zillow.com (should be completed shortly).

11:15 pm Update: We are now LIVE!! Check out the Zillow Blog for more info — or just go look at the new features for yourself!

11:28 am Update: Zillow’s Jeff Somers posted “Zillow’s New Free Marketing Tools for Agents” on his Active Rain blog.

What’s new? Well, we are becoming a community — pretty exciting for a web 2.0 junky such as myself (my new title is now Community Relations Specialist)! The primary features Zillow is adding are:

• Zillow Home Q&A – Home Q&A gives anyone the ability “ask a question” or “answer a question” about any home listed on Zillow.
• Free Profile Pages – Agents, homeowners and buyers can create free profile pages with photos, narratives and contact information.
• Tell the Community It’s For Sale – Anyone can now indicate whether a home is for sale and at what price.
• Unlimited Photo Posting – Anyone can now add photos to any home’s Web page.
• Zillow EZ Ads – EZ Ads are a self-service, low-cost and geographically-targeted way for agents, other professionals and home sellers to buy ads on Zillow map pages for specific ZIP code searches.

I certainly had a lot of fun covering Zillow’s last release in December – with my day 1, day 2, and the last of my coverage. I think it’s important to demonstrate that Zillow’s staff is reading everything that is written about us — we are interested in hearing what the industry & our users have to say. What better way than to link to every article that talks about the new features that we just launched tonight? This post will be a work in progress throughout the night as I find new posts mentioning our new features. I won’t provide commentary – but I will (attempt to) serve as your blog search engine if you are looking to see the latest posts about Zillow.

• 9:00 – Greg Swann writes “Planet Zillow.com: Burgeoning Realty.bot grows, potentially, to become a self-sustaining residential real estate eco-system” (also a podcast with David Gibbons)
• Nick Gonzalez posts “Zillow Relaunch – Adds Its Own Q&A Service“
• 9:09 – Brian Brady writes “Active Rain to get competition?” and “Zillow to offer Social Networking Capabilities“
• 9:30 – Rafe Needleman from CNET writes “Zillow continues build-out of real estate community“
• Kate Kaye from ClickZ writes “Zillow Offers Self-Serve Ads to Home Sellers and Local Services“
• 9:50 – Jay Thompson posts “Zomething is Zup at Zillow“
• The WSJ writes “The Boss’s Product Test” (paid subscription)
• 10:13 – Greg Swann is at it again, posting “A screen-shot tour of Zillow.com’s new feature set“
• 10:43 – Joel Burslem posts “Zillow Asks What’s For Sale in your Hood?” at Future of Real Estate Marketing
• 10:53 – Robbie Paplin posts “Things that make you go hmmm…..” at RCG
• 11:05 - Brian Brady has several more posts that I missed — “A Realtor’s Guide to “Farming” Zillow.com,” “How Mortgage Originators Might Use Zillow.com,” and “Zillow.com New Features: “Ask Questions, Share Answers”“
• 11:26 – Ardell at RCG posts “Zillow Announces – Home Q & A“
• 11:37 – Reuters writes “What’s that house’s story? Zillow users can ask“
• 11:47 – Jonathan Dalton posts “Zillow’s Next Step“
• 12:39 – Brad Inman writes “Walk the talk in Zillow Land” on Inman Blog

Update: It’s approaching 1 am (12:57 on my clock) and I’m going to call it a night. Please leave a comment if you have any questions and I’ll get back to you tomorrow.

It’s 7:55 am and I’m back at it — I’ll be adding links throughout the day as I find time.

• Marlow Harris posts “Zillow adds new goodies“
• Greg Sterling writes “Zillow Moves Deeper into Community Territory” at Screenwerk and “Zillow Adds New Community Features” on Search Engine Land
• Jeremy Hart posts “And Speaking of Zillow …“
• The Seattle PI has a piece titled “Let’s talk houses, Zillow says“
• Miriam Bernstein posts “Zillow and Ask A Question! Oy Vey” at Westchester New York Real Estate Blog
• theRatandMouse posts “Zillow Q&A – an innovation“
• Matt Marshall at Venture Beat writes “Zillow opens up Q&A on every home“
• MediaPostPublications has an article titled “Zillow Adds Localized Make-Your-Own Ad Capability“
• Fortune has an article on CNN Money – “Zillow zeroes in on wisdom of the neighborhood“
• Stephen Jaggar writes “Get Naked and Rule the World“
• Brier Dudley writes “Zillow gets interactive” on his Seattle PI blog
• Greg Swann posts “Random observations on the new Zillow.com feature set“
• Jonathan Washburn posts “Zillow launches “Advertise another agent’s listing” feature“
• Jonathan Dalton writes “Zillow’s Sale Postings – Another Legal Point“
• A post titled “Zillow Gets Interactive, Adds Q&A and Self Serving Ads” on Startup Meme
• Sellsius posts “Is Zillow Using Our Homes As Bait?“
• Jim Duncan writes “Zilllow steps it up again“
• FBS Blog posts “The Dog Woke Me Up“

Thursday:

• Greg Swann – “Zillow 5 is here, and, whether or not you seize upon its opportunities, it isn’t going away” and “Zynergy: They searched for a house, but they found you“
• Kevin Boer posts “Zillow’s New Features: Friend or Foe? Media Company, or Redfin Redux?“
• Motley Fool has an article titled “As the Zillow Turns“
• Jonathan Dalton writes “I’m Either Brilliant or a Fool“
• Fred Tung posts “Is that a Zillow on My Pillow?“
• John Cook writes “Zillow tries social networking with Home Q&A“
• Sellsius posts “The Human Listing Site: Zillowfying Your Privacy Under the Guise of Transparency“
• Brian Brady writes “Do You Zlog? Making the Zillow Real Estate Guide Work For You“
• Jonathan Dalton posts “Zillow’s Next Step – Marking Territory Within the Rules” and “Zillow’s Next Step – Conclusions“
• Jonathan at Real Opinionated writes “A Small Confession“

Stay tuned…

Update: Zillow is back online – check it out for yourself (hint – if you have a home posted for sale, check the bottom of the details page of your listing).  For more information, please see the Zillow Blog post.

It’s been a wild & exciting couple days to say the least. I just wanted to wrap up my coverage with another interesting article (meaning it has CONTENT & is not JUST links like many of the other articles I’ve come across) that I have found…

Cathleen Collins at BloodHound writes a very in depth post, “In the trenches with Zillow.com: A working Realtor’s first-hand experience listing a home . . .”

Update Sat 4:18:  BloodHound just doesn’t let up…another great article by Greg Swann this morning titled “Zillow.com versus Realtor.com: Nothing grows in the shade of great tree . . .“

So, you’ve probably heard, Zillow launched some new features last night. I just woke up and it looks like blog chatter is going full steam. I kept track of stories last night and I’ll be adding links to this post as I have time today, so here we go (times noted are when I updated the post):

• 8:00- Stewtopia posts “Zillow – Make me Move“
• Jim Duncan writes “Zillow Steps it Up“
• Kinetic Shift says “Real Estate Agent Industry Disruption Continues“
• miOaklandCounty writes “My First Zillow Post Ever” (thank you Maureen)
• Greg Swann does a “Early Morning Zillow News Round-up“
• Housing Panic writes “Can you just smell the realtor fear? Zillow now lets you put up a for sale sign and price“
• John Cook posts “Zillow Offers For Sale Listings“
• RealEconomics.net posts “(M+C+A+LI)-(B)=X“
• Michigan Foreclosure Report writes a “Zillow Update“
• GrumpStump writes “Zillow Adds For Sale Signs : Realtors everywhere in shock“
• Almost forgot Jonathan Miller at the Matrix, who writes “Zillow Make(s) Me Move For Free“
• 8:38- House Falls posts “Inman.com: Zillow adds for-sale listings“
• 8:46- Greg at BlueRoof posts “Zillow Grabbing For MLS/FSBO Business“
• 10:00- Curbed provides some “Thursday AM Linkage“
• Real Estate Marketing posts “Zillow Crows, Redfin Stews“
• Screenwerk writes “Zillow Adds Free Listings, Other Features“
• The Kelsey Group posts “The Craigs-listing of Zillow“
• 10:06- San Diego Home Blog writes “While I was Sleeping, Godzilla Strikes“
• Sellsius posts “Will Zillow Let Listing Owners Opt-Out Now?“
• 10:10- The Real Estate of Oz writes “Zillow wants to Make Me Move“
• 10:21- The Condo Metropolis Blog posts “Zillow.com Deals Another Blow to MLS“
• 10:38- Greg Sterling at Search Engine Journal says “Zillow Free Listings & Other Features“
• VonLein says “Zillow – Too Much Help?“
• 10:42- True Gotham posts “One Step Closer to Transparency of Information“
• 11:17- Of Mountains & Molehills posts “Catching up with Zillow“
• 11:21- Ardell at RCG (2nd post) mentions “The BIGGER news on Zillow.com“
• 11:22- Mike’s Corner says “‘Make Me Move’ = A New Lead Source“
• 12:18- Beau Bettis says “Zillow adds Homes for Sale“
• Northern Virginia RE Guide writes “Zillow sharpens its sword…challenges the status quo“
• 3:19- US Real Estate Directory Blog says “Zillow launches homes for sale“
• The New Real Estate Math posts “Zillow opens up to post listings for free“
• RCG’s Ardell (3rd post) writes “Zillow’s Free Advertising – A Consumer Perspective“
• John Cook posts “HouseValues, HomeGain, and Zillow“
• Maury Properties writes “Zhanges? Zupdates? Zillow’s new features“
• SpencerBarren posts “Zillow Returns Power to the People with Site updates“
• 3:29- Digitalalchemy posts “Make Me Move: Sell Your Home with Zillow“
• Marketing Shift says “Every House Is On the Market“
• REIBlog writes “It’s a Seller’s Market for Real Estate Web Site“
• YoChicago writes “What Price Will Make You Move?“
• Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Blog writes “Zillow Listings – The First Taste is Free“
• Phoenix Real Estate Guy says “Zillow This, Zillow That: Or, For the Love of Pete, Enough Already!“
• 7:56- Greg Swann at BloodHound provides another insightful post, “Zillow redux: A post-diluvian retrospective . . .” (this is truly a great post-I guess I’m not Z-ed out yet afterall)

Update at 6:18 PM: Well everyone, it was fun. As much as I’d love to continue tracking everything, I’m beat after a long & hectic day at the office. For now, I’m going to go eat dinner and crash…and maybe read a couple tech blogs (Z-ed out for now).

So…this is exciting stuff to say the least–Zillow is launching a new version of our website tonight (in process)! Personally, I think this is the most exciting thing we’ve done since we launched in February. So-what’s included in our new feature set??

1. Agents and owners can post homes for sale–for FREE.
2. Added a real estate wiki that is seeded with over 100 articles–and opening it up to the community for improvement & expansion
3. Make Me Move–now ANYONE can set a “dream” price for their home

If this sounds intriguing (which hopefully you do), you can read more over at the Zillow Blog (I’ll link when posted).

UPDATE: We’re now LIVE!! Come on…go check out the Zillow Blog post and then visit Zillow and see the new features for yourself!!

Zillow’s own David Gibbons (Director of Customer Service) writes his introductory post, “Zillow wants Your Listins,” as a member of the Active Rain community (with 10,000+ members, should I jump on the bandwagon too?).

Keeping Track–I’ll keep a tab of the blog posts & stories that I find tonight. Here’s the run-down (in order):

• Kevin Boer took some guesses as to the product features we were adding tonight when he found our “Holiday Suprise” page (shown below).
  
• TechCrunch was the 1st blog to post to announce the new features (hit 9:00 on the dot)
• Greg Swann at the Bloodhound Realty Blog
• Inman News – Article 1, Article 2, Article 3
• Ardell at Rain City Guide
• GigaOM says “Zillow Shows More of Its Cards”
• LA Times with an article titled “It’s a Seller’s Market for Real Estate Web Site Zillow.com“
• RCG’s Ardell on her own blog
• MSNBC’s “Expedia founder in web property move“
• John Cook’s “Homes for sale now listed on Zillow.com“
• Hotpads’ “Zillow Launches for-sale listings“
• Future of Real Estate Technology’s “Zillow to offer free listings“
• SocketSite’s “Zillow Adds Listings (Zlistings?)“
• Transparent RE posts “Everything you need to know about Zillow in 15 minutes“
• Russell Shaw at BloodHound wonders “Is BloodHound the Most Wired Blog in Real Estate?“
• Michael Parekh on IT writes “On Zillow’s New ‘Make Me Move” Feature’“
• Sellsius posts “Yes, I am a National Listing Site“
• Kevin Boer (2nd post) posts “Wow! You Leave for an Hour, and Zillow Changes the World” (I don’t know if this is EARTH changing–but we’ll take the compliment)
• Ryan Stewart says “Sell Your House with Flash“
• Galen at RCG writes “Zillow’s new way to spite your neighbor“
• Marlow Harris at 360 Digest posts “Zillow adds ‘For Sale’ postings and other goodies“

In my search for new blog entries, I’ve been using IceRocket, Technorati, Google Blog Search, and Bloglines. I’ve concluded:

• Bloglines sucks. At 9:54, not a single post has shown up yet. STILL nothing at 10:55
• IceRocket sucks. Same result as above…zero entries

Update: Ok everyone…it’s almost 2 am PST and I’m off to bed. I’ll continue to monitor the chatter tomorrow as much as I can. However, the day after a release is always busy. Please leave a comment if you have a question you’d like to get answered and I’ll get to it as quick as I can.

Robert Scoble visited the Zillow offices several weeks ago, right before the Blog Business Summit. He posted two videos filmed during his visit on the Scoble Show today–one with our CFO & VP of Marketing, Spencer Rascoff, and another with 4 of our talented developers.

I try to not mention Zillow (my employer) much on this blog because I’m obviously biased. However, I thought I’d at least point readers here to our CEO Rich Barton’s post announcing the new version of Zillow.com that we launched tonight! Exciting stuff if you are a Zillow fan (or employee!)!