BloodhoundBlog is celebrating its first birthday this coming Friday, so I wanted to take a little time to highlight some of the best work we’ve done over the last twelve months.
There is a limit to how much primary reporting a real estate weblog can do. The webloggers are each stuck in one spot, for one thing, plus we all have day jobs.
But if we choose to, we can do exemplary work at evaluating new product releases. We’re end-users of the products we report on, so we already know what we like, what we don’t like, and what we wish were different. In our own particular case, BloodhoundBlog contributors like Brian Brady tend to go over new products in exhaustive detail, wringing out every conceivable facet and implication. We’re eager to know what the vendor thinks we’ll find in a new tool, but we’re even more avid to unearth the capabilities their software engineers had not foreseen.
So: Watch us work. Here are some of the breaking news posts we have generated over the last year:
- Version 3 of Zillow.com’s software
- 2006 is the Year of Zillow: The 900 pound AVM has been upgraded to be a free listing platform and the presumptive national MLS system…
- Is Bloodhoundblog The Most Wired In Blog In Real Estate?
- Early morning Zillow news round-up…
- Zillow redux: A post-diluvian retrospective…
- Louis Vuitton and the French Revolution
- In the trenches with Zillow.com: A working Realtor’s first-hand experience listing a home…
- Zillow.com versus Realtor.com: Nothing grows in the shade of great tree…
- Thank You, Mr. Barton, May I Have Another?
- Redfin.com comes to California
- Podcast with Redfin.com CEO Glenn Kelman: “We’re looking for nerds living in nice houses”
- Glenn Kelman on Redfin.com’s move into Southern California: “I’ve never had to think so hard in an interview in my life”
- What if Redfin gave a PR offensive and nobody came?
- Redfin.com’s CEO Glenn Kelman: “What if the parasites had to eat the parasites?”
- Version 5 of Zillow.com’s software
- Planet Zillow.com: Burgeoning Realty.bot grows, potentially, to become a self-sustaining residential real estate eco-system
- A screen-shot tour of Zillow.com’s new feature set
- Podcast with David Gibbons, Zillow.com’s Director of Community Relations: “We are throwing the gates wide open to the entire community”
- Random observations on the new Zillow.com feature set
- Do You Zlog? Making the Zillow Real Estate Guide Work For You
- Going Fishing? Try to Land the Whales
- Zillow 5 is here, and, whether or not you seize upon its opportunities, it isn’t going away
- Zynergy: They searched for a house, but they found you
- Why doesn’t Zillow.com act like Trulia.com? Because life is short but art is long…
- Web site builds community of real estate consumers, vendors
- More random notes on Zillow.com: Conquering fear, uncertainty and doubt to become the neighborhood superhero
- Trulia.com add community features
- Is Trulia.com the UnZillow? Realty.bot emerges from beta with a new Q&A feature and robust, system-wide automated alerts
- Podcast interview with Trulia.com’s Heather Fernandez: “Real estate professionals are going to be able connect directly with consumers”
- Trulia.com versus Zillow.com revisited: Are your end-users temporary or permanent?
- Trulia Voices: Can Bigoted Bastards Flourish?
Real estate professionals know where to turn to find the freshest, most complete coverage of breaking news. BloodhoundBlog will have more and better hard-charging news coverage in our second year.
Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate, real estate marketing, Redfin.com, Zillow.com
Doug Trudeau says:
Happy Birthday.
June 24, 2007 — 5:58 am