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    Wanted: Apprentice for Project Blogger

    Part of what’s so enjoyable about blogging is helping others. Participating in Project Blogger as a coach is another great way for me to give back to the blogging community. If you aren’t familiar with Project Blogger, I’ll let Jonathan ...

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    Virtual Housing Stock Market – Zillow API Idea #1

    As you may know, we have an Open API. This means that anyone is free to develop anything as long as they adhere to our Branding Requirements and Terms of Use. Many of us here at Zillow have kicked around the idea of a game using Zestimate data for quite ...

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    Really, we are a media co., Really

    The title of this post is a stealthy way for me to welcome Greg Schwartz as Vice President, Advertising Sales, to Zillow.  Greg is based in our NYC sales office and will grow the national sales team across the country.  I met Greg in January, and ...

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    Top Pot Doughnuts fuel Zillow.com Recruiting Drive

    Yesterday marked another interesting day at Zillow as we embarked on an awareness and recruiting initiative not likely seen before in Seattle.   As you may know, we have a number of job openings and we wanted to find a way to attract the top notch ...

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    Zillow Mobile: Zestimates to Go Part 2

    Our first foray into Zillow mobile was a really cool application that allowed anyone to email or text an address to z@labs.zillow.com, and within a few minutes get a response that included a Zestimate, the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, the square footage ...

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    Zillow vs. Jobster — Putting the Paddle To the Metal

    When the going gets tough during crunch time, it’s nice to have an activity that takes your mind off of bugs, schedules, and coding. Fortunately at Zillow, one can rock out on Guitar Hero, exercise their wrists on our foosball table, or last but not ...