Today’s news is sure to send shockwaves through the industry: the (now former) president of Realtor.com® and chief strategy officer of Move, Errol Samuelson, is joining Zillow as their Chief Industry Development Officer. Here’s the press release. I think it’s safe to say this will be the primary…

Given my 5 years working at the big Z, I was stoked to see this Tweet tonight… "What is Zillow?" On Jeopardy tonight! pic.twitter.com/N7IXfDOfMy — Spencer Rascoff (@spencerrascoff) March 4, 2014

Every week or two, on Facebook, Twitter or a blog comment, I see someone in the industry say something to the tune of… The portals take our data, then sell leads back to us with the traffic they generate from it. The portals were built…

Another big win for Zillow yesterday. They are now powering AOL Real Estate, ousting Move. AOL isn’t what it used to be, but they are still no slouch. Who’s next? MSN and CNNMoney? New York Times? There aren’t many major, major players left to partner with. Seems…

Realtor.com shut down AgentMatch – There was literal outrage from the industry when it launched about a month ago. More on the shutdown here. Regardless of what agents think, I think some iteration of this will exist at some point in the future. Whether it’s Zillow, Trulia,…

Since I used to work at Zillow, am a techie myself, and readers here are all techies — seems it’s fitting to let you know about Zillow Tech Connect, which was just announced today. What is it? The Zillow Tech Connect program allows technology companies to…

We’ve covered Zillow Digs here before. I’ll be the first to say I think Zillow Digs is a brilliant strategic move by my former co-workers to repurpose the millions of photos they have collected over the years for an entirely different use case. As of…

Zillow toyed with past sales branding/data back in 2008 with the Virtual Sold Sign program way back in 2008 (while I worked there). It took a backseat on the priority list for awhile, but it seems they have finally nailed the feature. Here’s a short video…

+ Zillow has announced they are paying $50M in cash for StreetEasy. StreetEasy is the #1 site in New York, the US real estate market pretty much everyone has known has been Zillow’s major weakness since it launched in 2006. Back in late 2006 while…

We just heard from the folks at Realtor.com that they’ve renewed their agreement with MSN to be the sole provider of real estate listings and content for the media portal.  The agreement has been ongoing for 7 years, and strengthens one of their bases of…