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Sound Soups – a Local Zillow Favorite
Zillow employees eat lunch (yes, we do more than just work) in a variety of places. One of my personal favorites is Sound Soups, which is located in the bottom of the buiding in downtown Seattle that Zillow is located. I probably go there twice a ...
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Zillow WordPress Plug-in
A few weeks back, you might remember that I called for a wordpress plugin and that Realivent came through with an awesome lead generating solution for real estate blogs. I added it to Tisza’s blog (Route66 Living) and soon other bloggers showed ...
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Where America Lives
There is another cool Zillow API application out there now. Parade Magazine coded up a beautiful page for consumers to pull Zestimates as part of their “Where America Lives” portal that they launched this weekend. There’s lots of great ...
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Home Valuation Plug-in For WordPress – Zillow API Idea #2
Shout-out to any developer or web wizard who might be reading this: Does anyone have a spare cycle* to develop a WordPress plug-in? Here’s the idea: Develop a plug-in that would retrieve a Zestimate without leaving the WordPress blog they’re ...
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Some of our favorite EZ Ads
Since EZ Ads launched, hundreds of advertisers have purchased over a thousand individual adverts. These are just some of the first EZ Ads that caught my eye: For tips and feedback from one of our early advertisers, check out Brian Brady’s post on the ...
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Project Blogger Kicks Off
Project Blogger officially kicked off yesterday in which 13 “teams” — consisting of a coach and an apprentice — began a four-month venture to help develop skills for new bloggers. I got a cool domain set up for my apprentice, Tisza ...
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New Today on Zillow: Home Q&A and More
I have some questions and wonder if anyone can help me with some answers? Here we go… Q: How long has this house been on the market? Q: Want to buy my house? ( really ) Q: Anyone know the architect for this home ? Q : How’s the street noise ...
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A Spring Remodel…
Just a heads-up our site is undergoing a little spring remodel right now, and it might be a few hours until all the hammering stops. When we’re done, we’ll post an announcement here explaining some of our cool new features!
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Climbing Mt. Rainier 5 flights at a time
My boys are motivated pretty easily– stars on a chart, reading lists we can cross off as we go, and last but not least, prizes. I have recently learned that while these tools come in handy with my kids, maybe some of us never outgrow these types ...
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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 ...