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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 ...
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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 ...