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Zillow Adds Rentals. And more.

Zillow Adds Rentals. And more.

If I were Craig Newmark — the “Craig” in that little site known as CraigsList — I’d be looking over my shoulder with my eye on Seattle. There lies the corporate home of Zillow, where they just rolled out the latest addition to the second…

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Google Using Site Speed in Rankings in 2010

Google Using Site Speed in Rankings in 2010

I first heard this rumor from an agent at NAR last week.  Check out the video below of Matt Cutts of Google talking about how they are seriously considering using site speed as one of the many factors in ranking a site. After listening to…

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Cities in 3D. Seriously, This is Cool

Cities in 3D. Seriously, This is Cool

The Google team has done it again with their Cities in 3d program. You can now take a “virtual tour” through the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego, or Washington, DC. Here’s a preview video showcasing Los Angeles: WOW is all I have to say….

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Walk Score Releases Public Transit Data

Walk Score Releases Public Transit Data

For those who were using Walk Score’s real estate tile, you now have public transit data on your website (for the 40 cities covered) as a result of the addition of transit data to Walk Score. You can learn more over on the Walk Score…

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Realtor.org Redesigns Home Page

Realtor.org Redesigns Home Page

Realtor.org released a new home page design this morning. And unless you are a fan of circa 1990 web design, the change is long overdue. Here is what it looked like yesterday: Here’s what it looks like today: Thoughts on the redesign My initial thought…

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Why WebMynd.com Kills Google's Twitter Announcement

Why WebMynd.com Kills Google's Twitter Announcement

Google and Twitter has been big news across the blogosphere today… unfortunately it provokes a “meh” response from me. Why? Because a simple plugin for IE or Firefox called WebMynd (that has been around for quite a while) already did this and much much more.

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Google Maps Street View Comes to Canada

Google Maps Street View Comes to Canada

Finally, Google’s Street View product comes to the streets of Canada. The other day Google added the streets of Canada to their street level photography project. You can see all of the cities/towns that have been included in their initial launch here. Interesting that Victoria…

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Disqus v3 Coming Soon…

Disqus v3 Coming Soon…

DISQUS V3 from Giannii on Vimeo. [via Fred Wilson]

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Real estate sites way back when…

Real estate sites way back when…

Your favorite real estate sites and blogs today are slick and shiny, modern and contemporary, functional and 2.0. But that wasn’t always the case. Check out some of your favorite sites way back when: Zillow.com circa January 2005 The Phoenix Real Estate Guy circa January…

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One Week on Google Voice:  Progress and Pitfalls

One Week on Google Voice: Progress and Pitfalls

I was lucky enough to be one of the people with a Grand Central account when Google took over with its new Google Voice service (sometimes being a geek who signs up for every new service pays off, even if you had no idea what…

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