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Mashup technologies empower home buyers

Will sites like Zillow.com shake up the real estate industry?Steve Chainey bought his dream home using Zillow.com, a Web 2.0 sitethat combines satellite mapping imagery with home valuation analysis.This site and others like it provide consumers with research tools thathave been difficult to access in the past, potentially disrupting thetraditional...

Tags: Zillow.com

Videos 2006-08-15

Open source geocoding is here

Open source geocoding is hereAn example of the possibilities: Zillow.comI've seen an interesting example of this at Zillow.com, where you can enter a street address, and see prices for houses in that location provided data is available. This takes that concept, and opens up new possibilities. It'll be interesting to...

Tags: open source, Open source geocoding, geocoding, Zillow.com

Discussion threads 2006-04-24

Database Products Help Real Estate Service Evaluate Millions of Homes Daily, Cut Costs

Zillow.com is an online real estate service that helps people research the value of millions of homes in America. When the company began building the database in 2005, the challenge was to find a product that could easily handle its very large data sets and deliver quick responses to user...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Zillow.com, Real Estate, Storage, Databases, Business Operations, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge

Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challengeUbiquity means......we can fade into the noise. At least that's my remaining hope for privacy. Sigh. :(BTW...that's what I wish Bill would do. You're not in charge of anything anymore...be quiet.Software innovation accelerates decline in privacyIsn't it great to...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Software Innovation, privacy challenge, Bill Gates, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Zillow's 'playground to experiment'

David Beitel, CTO of Zillow.com shares his thoughts on collaboration and providing a work environment that allows his engineers to experiment, take risks and not be afraid to make mistakes. by Administrator

Tags: Zillow, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Processing terabytes of property records

David Beitel, CTO of Zillow.com describes how the company is using technology to process millions of new property records into an electronic database and then post on the company's web site in a user-friendly format. by Administrator

Tags: Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Storage, Databases, Internet, Marketing, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Emerging advertising software

David Beitel, CTO of Zillow.com discusses how the company is using its new patent-pending, ad-serving technology to analyze user traffic patterns and send targeted display advertising to its users. by Administrator

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Zillow CTO: David Beitel

David Beitel, CTO of Zillow.com talks about changing the real estate game by applying property values to more than 80 million homes online. Beitel speaks with CNET News.com's Dan Farber about creating a targeted advertising system that will help the company get better information about its customers and using data...

Tags: Advertisement, CTO, Real Estate, Business Operations, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Zillow's emerging advertising software

David Beitel, CTO of Zillow discusses how the company is using its new patent-pending, ad-serving technology to analyze user traffic patterns and send targeted display advertising to its users.

Tags: Software, Advertisement, CIO

Videos 2008-03-10

Papers forge real estate deal with Zillow

Papers forge real estate deal with ZillowNewspapersThumbs-up to Zillow in addressing print media's need in taking advantage of online distribution.Sundays Real Estate Section has always been money maker for many. The current Real Estate market begs for extended exposer of opportunities too a broader audience.

Tags: Zillow, real estate, real estate deal, Real Estate Market

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

News to know: OpenWorld; IBM Roadrunner; XO support; Android SDK

Notable headlines: IBM's Roadrunner to smash supercomputing marks. Dan Farber: Charles Phillips: Fusion on track and SaaS for all. Oracle virtualization 3x better than the competition? At Oracle OpenWorld, the fruits of 'acquired innovation.' Video: Larry Ellison reflects on 30 years. Joshua Greenbaum: The...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., TomTom, Microsoft Zune, SDK, Computerworld, Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Dash brings the Internet inside the car

At the Web 2.0 Summit, Dash Navigation showed of what it called the world's first connected navigation platform. The GPS device uses Wi-Fi and the cellular network to connect to the Internet. What's unique is that the Dash device can mashup with Web services. For example, with a Zillow feed...

Tags: Car, Mashup, Dash Navigation, Internet, Web 2.0, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Microsoft Office Live Code Sample: Property Value Estimator (exe)

Microsoft Office Live Code Sample: Property Value Estimator installs a sample code mashup for Microsoft Office Live. Microsoft Office Live Code Sample: Property Value Estimator is designed to estimate the value of the property located at the home address of a contact included in the Microsoft Office Live Business Contact...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Data, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-10-05

Zillow raises $30 million in VC funding

Zillow said Thursday that it raised $30 million in venture funding. The round was led by Legg Mason Capital Management. Zillow, which has been building out its platform, said the money will go toward expanding staff and accelerating features and products. Zillow said in a statement...

Tags: Advertisement, Legg Mason Inc., Investor, Zillow, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Desktop Zestimates (widget)

How much is that home worth. Enter a U.S. address in Zillow.coms widget search box to get the following on a home like Zestimate home valuation, one-week value change, snapshot of homes market value for past year, link to home details page, link to homes graphs and data, and you...

Tags: Home, Investment, Desktops, Finance, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-06-18

Google launches Street View; Be wary

Google launches Street View; Be waryyou could always move to a place like TampaGoogle Maps doesn't have us yet...but Zillow does.Of course, we could drown these nosy folks with too much data like Hasan TV below -)http://florence20.typepad.com/renaissance/2007/05/extreme_transpa.htmlDon't put all your eggs in one basketI used Google Earth before it was...

Tags: Scoble, Google Inc., Be Wary

Discussion threads 2007-05-29

The big API gamble: When do you borrow vs. build?

Mozillas move to build social networking features into its browser has spawned a series of potential ripple effects. TechCrunchs Michael Arrington notes that startup Flock could take a hit. Others add that its dangerous to build solely on another companys technology. For...

Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, General

Blog posts 2007-04-04

MySpace: IT on a wing and a Microsoft prayer

Baselines David Carr has an interesting tale of MySpaces IT operations. In a nutshell, the company is winging it with a Microsoft-based platform amid massive growth. Here are a few takeaways from the article, which is linked here to the printer version (the story is broken up...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Microsoft, MySpace

Blog posts 2007-01-17

When (and why) social media fails...

Im just getting back to real life after having lost power after the storm that hit Seattle last Thursday night—we got electricity last night. It was interesting to me that all the blog/social media created around the event, mostly by the various news outlets, managed to add precisely nothing to...

Tags: Blogging, social media, blog, journalism, power company

Blog posts 2006-12-18

The growth of mashups continued throughout 2006

One of my favorite Internet stats to check out are the mashup and open API trendlines on the front page of Programmable Web. Consistently, month after month this year and right up until present day, weve seen the mashup stats climb intriguing steadiness. And along with hundreds of...

Tags: mashup

Blog posts 2006-12-13