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Finding home sweet home online: You'd think the timing couldn't be worse. But despite the softening real-estate market and record foreclosure rates, real-estate search sites continue to pop up and thrive. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi explores the sites Trulia and Roost, and explains why consumers are seeking out these online tools.; Tags: real estate, online, wed sites, trulia, roost, zillow, realtor, los altos, kara tsuboi, home sweet home, market; Videos 2008-03-14
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
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
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
Peeking under the hood at Zillow: Peeking under the hood at ZillowDouble-edged swordThis is a great technology, giving you the ability to check on the property values of your neighbors effortlessly. The problem is, they can check on yours, too. The privacy issue will become much more keen to people when this is...; Tags: Zillow; Discussion threads 2006-12-11

Peeking under the hood at Zillow: Zillow has $57 million in venture funding and a technology greenfield to create new online real estate features such as Make Me Move, a system that enables you to name a price so good youll sell your home. Zillows conundrum: How do you build technology infrastructure that can enable rapid...; Tags: David Beitel, Zillow, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General; Blog posts 2006-12-11
Zillow: Two-thirds of employees are IT workers: Zillow: Two-thirds of employees are IT workersZillow presentationHi - Spencer from Zillow here. Just to clarify my comments from this afternoon's speech at the Interactive Local Media conference by the Kelsey Group: Our database of homes actually contains information on about 70 million homes, almost every home in America. This...; Tags: Databases, Product marketing, real estate, Zillow; Discussion threads 2006-11-29
Zillow: Two-thirds of employees are IT workers: Real estate site Zillow has roughly 150 employees today and 100 of them are information technology workers. It takes a lot of folks to maintain a database with data on 33 million homes--and counting. Zillow CFO Spencer Rascoff presented at...; Tags: Zillows, Rascoff, Zillow, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, General; Blog posts 2006-11-29
One of these five companies will buy Zillow: One of these five companies will buy ZillowRealogy buys Zillow? Not a chance...The real estate industry is scared silly of Zillow because they think it's a disintermediation play, even though Zillow has said very loudly on many occasions that it's a _media_ company making money on advertising and has...; Tags: Real estate, real estate industry, Zillow, Realogy; Discussion threads 2006-10-25
One of these five companies will buy Zillow: Still struttin' about blogtown with my now-coming-to-pass prediction that Google might buy YouTube, I now find myself replicating my neural cogitations for my next big question:Who will buy red-hot real-estate information site Zillow? By the way, that screencap is Zillow's view of some of the prices in my 'hood.OK, let...; Tags: Zillow; Blog posts 2006-10-25
Zillow and the Long Tail: Zillow and the Long TailMore of a continuing trend.It seems to me that this has been a trend evolving over twenty years. The United States took major steps towards switching from a manufacturing economy to an information economy in the 80's. The tools developed for this change made...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Manufacturing, long tail, manufacturing economy, Zillow, information economy; Discussion threads 2006-07-30
Zillow and the Long Tail: Over at the Zillow blog today, Mark Eamer announced that the company will offer an open API for developers to use to access the company's real estate values estimates and related information. Why, because Zillow "believes that real estate is all about the long tail." ...; Tags: Anderson, Zillow, Chris Anderson; Blog posts 2006-07-27
Zillow offers new angle on real estate views: Zillow offers new angle on real estate viewsSo now Microsoft......in addition to spying on your computers is now also spying on your houses from low-flying airplanes?Why do we need the NSA, the FBI, and DHS when we have the boys from Redmond on the job?privacy?When are you going to realize...; Tags: real estate view, Zillow, real estate; Discussion threads 2006-04-13
Zillow: Welcome to Whoville, where everyone knows your property value: Zillow: Welcome to Whoville, where everyone knows your property valueNot even closeI looked up my home, and the description was not even right. I owwn a 4 bd 2.5 bath 1.5 story - Zillow's description is 3 bd 3 ba 1 story. I know the public record is...; Tags: data quality, Zillow; Discussion threads 2006-02-10
Zillow: Welcome to Whoville, where everyone knows your property value: I'm flabbergated. Zillow.com, which launched today, told me a lot I did not know about my local real estate market. Zillow just obsoleted the local realtor as a necessary category of professional, leaving home owners in a much better position to pick and judge the performance of a...; Tags: Zillow; Blog posts 2006-02-08

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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
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