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Project Blogger Kicks Off

Project Blogger officially kicked off yesterday in which 13 “teams” — consisting of a coach and an apprentice — began a four-month venture to help develop skills for new bloggers. I got a cool domain set up for my apprentice, Tisza ...

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New Today on Zillow: Home Q&A and More

I have some questions and wonder if anyone can help me with some answers? Here we go… Q: How long has this house been on the market? Q: Want to buy my house? ( really ) Q: Anyone know the architect for this home ? Q : How’s the street noise ...

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A Spring Remodel…

Just a heads-up our site is undergoing a little spring remodel right now, and it might be a few hours until all the hammering stops.  When we’re done, we’ll post an announcement here explaining some of our cool new features!

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Climbing Mt. Rainier 5 flights at a time

My boys are motivated pretty easily– stars on a chart, reading lists we can cross off as we go, and last but not least, prizes.  I have recently learned that while these tools come in handy with my kids, maybe some of us never outgrow these types ...

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Wanted: Apprentice for Project Blogger

Part of what’s so enjoyable about blogging is helping others. Participating in Project Blogger as a coach is another great way for me to give back to the blogging community. If you aren’t familiar with Project Blogger, I’ll let Jonathan ...

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Virtual Housing Stock Market – Zillow API Idea #1

As you may know, we have an Open API. This means that anyone is free to develop anything as long as they adhere to our Branding Requirements and Terms of Use. Many of us here at Zillow have kicked around the idea of a game using Zestimate data for quite ...

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Really, we are a media co., Really

The title of this post is a stealthy way for me to welcome Greg Schwartz as Vice President, Advertising Sales, to Zillow.  Greg is based in our NYC sales office and will grow the national sales team across the country.  I met Greg in January, and ...

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Top Pot Doughnuts fuel Zillow.com Recruiting Drive

Yesterday marked another interesting day at Zillow as we embarked on an awareness and recruiting initiative not likely seen before in Seattle.   As you may know, we have a number of job openings and we wanted to find a way to attract the top notch ...

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Zillow Mobile: Zestimates to Go Part 2

Our first foray into Zillow mobile was a really cool application that allowed anyone to email or text an address to z@labs.zillow.com, and within a few minutes get a response that included a Zestimate, the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, the square footage ...