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    Offices or Cubicles? The Eternal Debate Continues…

    Cubes or offices? It’s an issue which plagues all startups. In fact, it vexes all companies, large and small. It is the subject of frequent humor in pop culture, from Dilbert to Office Space. But it’s a serious question, worthy of debate.

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    Further Zillow API Applications

    I was surfing around the Zillow API Forum today and came across two really cool applications that I wanted to highlight. The first application was built by Mike Rice (Eferi Web Development) and allows a developer to add Zestimates, charts, beds/baths and ...

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    Happy Thanksgiving from Zillow!

    (Image courtesy of Wikipedia) Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Zillow! We have a lot to be thankful for these days — from the awards and positive feedback we have received about what we’re doing, to our stellar location, cool staff ...

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    Zillow on the Scoble Show

    If you read our blog, you may know that Robert Scoble, famous for blogging while at Microsoft and who recently joined Podtech, visited our offices a few weeks ago. Robert had an early demo of the Open API (this was the news Scoble mentioned may break on ...

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    Zillow named to Ad Age’s “Marketing 50”

    I’m proud to tell you that Zillow has received one of the most prestigious brand designations that a company can receive: we were named one of AdvertisingAge’s 2006 "Marketing 50", which honors products that "broke through the ...

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    California… Here We Come!

    After Marissa Cooper was killed off in the season finale, the anticipation of the season premiere of Fox’s The O.C. has been slowly killing the rest of us.  Will the new season be the same without Marissa?  What will happen to Summer in her first ...

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    Zestimate Accuracy

    There’s been a lot of chatter in the past few days about a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission about Zillow.  The letter says that Zillow is misleading consumers about the accuracy of its data. Here’s our take: We try really hard to be ...

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    The Open API is now… Open!

    After weeks of sweat, blood and perhaps even a few tears, the team here at Zillow is excited to announce that our Open API is now open for business!  Check it out here or by clicking the “API Network” link on the site footer. Zillow’s Open API ...

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    ZillowBlog 101 for New Readers

    Last week we added a link to this blog on the Zillow home page and our daily readership grew nicely — If you are one of our new readers let me be the first to say; This blog allows us to discuss Zillow in detail and some of our posts have value that ...