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New Features Added to Zillow iPhone App

Exciting news from Zillow mobile land… we just launched V2 of the Zillow iPhone App! This new version was motivated by two things: user feedback on our V1 Zillow iPhone App, and the opportunity to launch with the new iPhone OS 3.0. The most-requested ...

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Are You a Local Expert? Are You Knowledgeable About Neighborhood Boundaries in your Area?

If the answer to both questions is “yes”, and you are willing to help by giving us feedback, we’d love to hear from you. We’re doing some improvements on the neighborhood boundaries that we released in January of 2008. For example ...

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Beer With Bloggers, Philly Style

The unofficial start to tomorrow’s Philly RE BarCamp began tonight with the Pre-Bar Camp Beer for Bloggers event that was held at Finnegan’s Wake down on 3rd and Spring Garden Streets in Philly. It was a good way to get together with real ...

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Welcome Homethinking to the API Program

We’re extremely pleased to welcome Homethinking as the latest member of the Zillow API program. Their integration is fairly slick — they’ve used the state mortgage rates available in our GetRateSummary API to build a state rates module ...

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New Widgets – Recently Solds, Newest Homes for Sale, and Most Expensive in a Given Geo

If you follow Zillow closely, you’ve probably figured out that we love anything and everything that helps get the Zillow brand in front of more people interest in real estate. Our syndication strategy has been to make it as easy as possible for ...

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Planned Site Maintenance Tonight

It pains us to do this, but tonight at 8 p.m. (PDT), Zillow.com will go offline for an hour or so for some behind-the-scenes maintenance that will help improve search performance. What to do in the meantime? How about: Catch up on celebrity real estate ...

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Zillow is a Webware 100 Winner

For the second straight year, Zillow is a winner in CNET’s 2009 Webware 100 Awards in the Commerce category. The  Webware 100 Awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications on the Web. Nearly 630,000 votes were cast during the ...

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Talking to a Few Local Zillow Advice Regulars

To get a better sense for how people are using Zillow, we invited a few of the local regular contributors on Zillow Advice to come to our offices today, to get their feedback. We discussed a number of topics, including what’s working, what’s ...

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260,000+ Downloads of Zillow iPhone App

What an exciting launch this has been for the Zillow iPhone App. Just two weeks ago, we released our free app to the iTunes App Store, and the reception has been amazing. Between all of the reviews and mentions we’ve received, we’ve climbed ...