I’ve decided to post the followup to the Trulia Blogs & Active Rain post over at OnBlog. The main reason was that what I ended up writing was exactly the kind of marketing advice I would offer to our clients. The other reason is that I’m too tired to copy and paste it into this … Read more
Breaking news from Inman Blogger Connect: Trulia has announced that it is launching a blog platform. I don’t have a link, because this was on a piece of paper, but there will be an official announcement later. I actually had a chance to speak with Vicky Gkiza, Sr. Product Manager for Community, at Trulia and… … Read more
I didn’t realize earlier that the great interviews Dustin Luther got with Marty Frame and Alex Chang that I commented on here and here were of a series. Coz, I’m a RE.net newbie. They’re all worth a read. His latest is no exception. He got some great answers from Peter Flint, CEO of Trulia.com (total … Read more
Move, Inc. — the folks behind Realtor.com and Top Producer — held its Q4 2007 earnings conference call recently. The transcript is available on Seeking Alpha. I think it’s well worth your time to check it out in full. Move did $286M in 2007, vs. $280M in 2006. Considering the shape that the real estate … Read more
Kudos to Trulia for this: Trulia Voices is one of the most popular parts of our site. Our rapidly growing community has done a great job asking and answering real estate questions. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of our RSS feed widget for your Trulia Voices Answers. You’ll now have the ability to … Read more
Now, this is good news from NAR: The integrity of data is a foundation to the orderly Real Estate market. The Real Estate Transaction Standards (RETS) provides a vendor neutral, secure approach to exchanging listing information between the broker and the MLS. In order to ensure that the goal of maintaining an orderly marketplace is … Read more
I know this is probably old news by now, but I confess that I just found out about it myself. Apparently, the real estate industry has a new standard data format for the distribution of real estate listings online. Seems the boys at Yahoo!, Zillow.com, and Trulia.com have gotten together and worked out a new … Read more