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Seattle’s 25 Best Places to Work
We got some fun news last week when Zillow was named one of the top 25 places to work in Seattle by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine for their September issue (article not currently online but on newsstands now). The article notes some of the benefits and ...
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Look Who’s Blogging…
Katie Couric (well, actually “Couric & Co”) started a blog to coincide with her first night as anchor of the CBS Evening News tonight. It’s interesting to note that despite the blog’s content today which is quite bland, the ...
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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 ...