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Habitat in a Corner
Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity Recently we had a company picnic – you know, the kind where bosses get dunked in a tank courtesy of gleeful dry employees. To vote for certain dunkees you pledged dollars to Habitat for Humanity and those who drew ...
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TIME’s 50 Coolest Websites
We are honored that TIME Magazine included Zillow on its 2006 list of the 50 Coolest Websites, which was announced yesterday. In addition to the Travel & Real Estate category, the list was comprised of several other categories including Time Wasters ...
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We’ve come a long way, baby
Six months ago today, Zillow launched the beta site with great… uhh… fanfare… and some interest that frankly overwhelmed us. Once we got stable, we began to be amazed at the insatiable consumer appetite for data and valuation information ...
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AOL’s big change
Yesterday, AOL announced that “most” of their services would be FREE going forward. All that great content and all those services … FREE. If you read the FAQ, you can see how they expect to make up for all the lost revenue … 1. Why ...
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Wizard Behind the Curtain
Yesterday, during Rich and Lloyd’s speech at Real Estate Connect, they asked conference attendees to test our new Zillow Mobile feature by e-mailing a search request to z@labs.zillow.com. Arjun Banker, the engineer behind the Zillow Mobile idea ...
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Zillow Mobile: Zestimates to Go!
Updated (11/26/2008) With the launch of our Zillow Mobile website, we have discontinued our Zillow Mobile email service. Please point your mobile web browser at http://mobile.zillow.com/ to get Zestimates and more on your mobile device. I was ...
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Zillow’s Open API
It’s rare that Zillow parts the curtain and shines a light on our product roadmap, but today at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in San Francisco, Rich and Lloyd are sharing the news that Zillow has begun to develop an Open API to share data on ...
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Series B Financing
Zillow announced today that we raised a Series B round of financing — a $25 million round led by PAR Capital, and our two previous venture capital backers (Technology Crossover Ventures and Benchmark Capital). This makes the total amount of money ...
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Zillow Teams with Yahoo! Real Estate and Yahoo! Search
We are very excited to announce today a partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate and Yahoo! Search that will expose Zestimates and comparable homes to a much broader audience searching for information on home values. Yahoo! Search users who search for “home ...
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Who are you, Zillow users?
We get asked a lot about just who is using Zillow.com. Are they homeowners? Potential buyers or sellers? Snoopers? While we designed the site for homeowners and those in the market to buy or sell a home, we of course wondered ourselves if the site ...