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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 ...

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    Carnival of Real Estate #141

    The 141th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is hosted this week at Dan Melson’s La Mesa Real Estate and Mortgage Blog. Check it out! The carnival will make its next appearance on Monday, May 18 at the Minnesota Investment Property Blog . Please ...

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    Zillow iPhone Launch is Music to My Ears

    After a big day of excitement at the office last week around the launch of the  Zillow iPhone App, I prepared to enter a world where I thought the excitement would be about a different kind of “phone.” For a couple weeks, I’d been ...

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    Fun Friday: Zillow’s Finance Team Goes Green

    I remember sitting in my first business class at Boston University as an undergrad; squinting at the whiteboard in a giant lecture hall while learning about “the paperless environment.”  “Yeah, right” I thought, who are these guys kidding?  When ...

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    Phoenix RE BarCamp Wrap Up

    I’ve now been back in Seattle a few days following my trip to Phoenix last week for Phoenix RE BarCamp. I had an absolutely awesome trip (it didn’t hurt that the weather was gorgeous) and wanted to share a few thoughts. The crowd was extremely ...