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Seattle Lunch 2.0 at Zillow – July 11th

There seems to be a lot of excitement in the Seattle Tech scene recently. David Gibbons and I attended the 1st Seattle Lunch 2.0 event hosted by WetPaint & sponsored by ZenZui and EyeJot last Friday. We had a blast and met some interesting and ...

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Yahoo! Real Estate Adds More Z’s….Round 3

We are pleased to announce yet another phase in our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate, which will continue to expose Zillow functionality on the largest Internet Web site in the world.   Building on our previous two integrations, the new Yahoo! Real ...

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Milestone EZ Ads

Six weeks into the life of EZ Ads, we’ve hit some milestones we hadn’t anticipated reaching so soon. Last week the 2,000th advertiser signed up, and this week the 3,000th EZ Ad was purchased! We thought we’d take this opportunity to tell you ...

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We’ve Been Posh’d…

We’re honored — Zillow Blog has been Posh’d! Posh’d is a site started by Shaun McLane from EKDAY (“Every Kid Deserves a Yard”) that showcases innovative real estate web sites. There are a number of other fantastic sites ...

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Sound Soups – a Local Zillow Favorite

Zillow employees eat lunch (yes, we do more than just work) in a variety of places. One of my personal favorites is Sound Soups, which is located in the bottom of the buiding in downtown Seattle that Zillow is located. I probably go there twice a ...

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Zillow WordPress Plug-in

A few weeks back, you might remember that I called for a wordpress plugin and that Realivent came through with an awesome lead generating solution for real estate blogs. I added it to Tisza’s blog (Route66 Living) and soon other bloggers showed ...

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Where America Lives

There is another cool Zillow API application out there now. Parade Magazine coded up a beautiful page for consumers to pull Zestimates as part of their “Where America Lives” portal that they launched this weekend. There’s lots of great ...

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Home Valuation Plug-in For WordPress – Zillow API Idea #2

Shout-out to any developer or web wizard who might be reading this: Does anyone have a spare cycle* to develop a WordPress plug-in? Here’s the idea: Develop a plug-in that would retrieve a Zestimate without leaving the WordPress blog they’re ...

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Some of our favorite EZ Ads

Since EZ Ads launched, hundreds of advertisers have purchased over a thousand individual adverts. These are just some of the first EZ Ads that caught my eye: For tips and feedback from one of our early advertisers, check out Brian Brady’s post on the ...