Published Date: December 6, 2006

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):

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.


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    BloodhoundBlog
    18 years ago

    2006 is the Year of Zillow: The 900 pound AVM has been upgraded to be a free listing platform and the presumptive national MLS system . . ….

    The News
    An upgrade made tonight to Zillow.com’s on-line home evaluation system will add the following new functionality:

    Owners or listing agents for any of the 67 million homes in Zillow’s database will be able to list those homes for sa…

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    Greg Swann
    18 years ago

    news.google.com is pretty robust; you can search into blogs after the first search into MSM news sites.

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    Drew Meyers
    18 years ago

    Greg-
    I am having good luck with Google’s Blog Search. The only two sites mentioned on Google News are GigaOM and Inman (as of 10:15).

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    Greg Swann
    18 years ago

    You’re right. I get that stuff from a Google update, so I didn’t realize it swapped out to a different service.

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    drew – cool. this is what we expected from you guys since day one. looking forward to seeing it!

    rudy.sellsius°

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    18 years ago

    I feel like the beleaguered wife on a bad soap opera… always the last one to know. Next time something “big” happens, give me some notice, ok?

    I’m looking forward to playing when the site comes back up.

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    Joel Burslem
    18 years ago

    Congrats Drew. This is big for Zillow. I’m excited to see how this shakes out.

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    18 years ago

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    REBlogGirl
    18 years ago

    What can I say that hasn’t been said. All the speculation has ended as to what direction ya’ll would take. It rocks. Now, is any of this new functionality coming to the next release of the API?

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    Drew Meyers
    18 years ago

    Mary-
    Make sure you feed your ideas as to what you’d like into the feature ideas section of the API forum. We’ll see what we can do for RSS Pieces 🙂

    Marlow-
    I’ll try to give you some more notice next time. I can’t promise anything as far as pre-briefing though.

    Rudolph-
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    Thank you Teresa!!

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