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    The People Have Spoken: Zillow is Best Seattle Start-Up

    We’re excited, tickled, humbled, flattered, and thrilled to announce that we’ve been named the Best Start-Up in the 2007 NWSource People’s Pick! THANK YOU, PEOPLE! And if this isn’t exciting enough, we’ve also been named ...

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    We Know How to Celebrate Halloween

    It has become quite a tradition at Zillow to go whole hog and embrace the idea of dressing up for Halloween. Here are a few pics to get the idea of what goes down at Zillow headquarters on Oct. 31, starting with a group photo… Product Team Lead Andy ...

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    Zindex World Series

    Welcome to the 2007 Zindex World Series! BaaaaahhhhSTUN! For you Cleveland fans, we won’t even mention the third-base coach’s name or infer that his blown call sent the Indians into a tailspin en route to a 11-2 loss in the deciding game of ...

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    Zillow Wins Gold!

    Today, we learned that we won gold in the W3 awards! The W3 awards recognizes the creative aspects of the web, and are judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts — some smart folks in media, advertising and marketing. We are thrilled to ...

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    Zillow Announces $30M in Series C Funding

    Zillow announced today that we raised a new round of venture capital. Our Series C financing is a $30 million round led by Legg Mason Capital Management, and all three previous institutional investors are also participating — Benchmark Capital ...

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    Zillow Wins Web Award!

    We were very pleased to learn yesterday that Zillow was named Outstanding Website in the Real Estate category for the 2007 Web Marketing Association’s WebAwards.  The awards are in their 11th year — which is pretty impressive if you ask ...

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    Congratulations to Kary Krismer

    I want to extend a congratulations to Kary Krismer for being added to the team of real estate bloggers at Seattle Real Estate Professionals, a local Seattle blog run by the Seattle PI. Kary is an agent for Keller Williams North Seattle and has been one of ...

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    Add your Zestimate to Facebook

    RockstarApps has built the first Facebook application (App) to publish Zestimate values using the Zillow API. Keep Up w/ the Jones is a simple App — just enter your address to keep track of your Zestimate and share it with your friends (note: you ...

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    Rich Barton Talks about Starting Zillow

    Zillow’s CEO, Rich Barton, and Joel Burslem of Inman News discuss starting Zillow, Web 2.0 and innovation in Real Estate. If you’ve been bitten by the startup bug or are curious about how Zillow got started you’ll enjoy Rich’s ...

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    Jott this: Zillow now accessible

    One of my favorite services just added Zillow functionality, and I had nothing to do with it. No biz dev deal required; no pitching; no nothing. I’m in heaven. Jott is a free service that transcribes voice to text. It works like this: set up your ...