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Real Estate Connect Kicks Off this Week!

The eyes of the real estate industry will be on California again as Inman News’ annual Real Estate Connect conference kicks off this week in San Francisco.

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Real Estate Connect Kicks Off this Week!

Have you got your ticket for Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2009 yet? Only one more day till the price goes up! This will be the fifth Connect conference that I’ve been been part of and I’m proud of having been able to contribute to the program over the years. But more importantly, Connect is something that I personally look forward to attending every summer

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Real Estate Connect registration deadline tomorrow

If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, then the founder of the Clozing definitely has no qualms calling his new site the “Techmeme for Real Estate” . Launched today by Sellsius blog head Joe Ferrara and his partner Anthony Barba, The Clozing is meant to be “your real estate water cooler”.

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The Clozing Seeks to Aggregate Real Estate News

Over the last few years many of the major real estate search sites have moved over to Google Maps from Microsoft’s Virtual Earth as their mapping API of choice (Redfin being the most recent notable defector). HomeGain, Trulia, Homefinder, Estately and others all use Google Maps. But, interestingly, both the #1 and #2 sites; Realtor.com and Zillow, are still Microsoft clients

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Photosynth Could Spark Virtual Earth Comeback

Last week Zillow laid the smack down on the developer of the iZillow iphone-optimized webpage (see  Zillow for iPhone ), demanding that he pull down the site.

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Zillow Spikes #Zillowfail, Settles with iZillow Developer

Trulia wins Webby Award

Congrats to Trulia for winning the 2009 Webby award in the real estate category. This is nice recognition for the Bay-Area company, but they still have a ways to go to catch up its nearest competitors

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Trulia wins Webby Award

Zillow Takes Zestimates to the Streets

Click here to view the embedded video. Ever since Zillow evolved into.. well, whatever it is now (some sort of real estate search, AVM, mortgage rate and discussion forum Frankenstein, as far as I can tell), the controversy over Zestimates seems to have quieted down.

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Zillow Takes Zestimates to the Streets

A House They Found on Zillow…

Click here to view the embedded video. Mobile real estate poised to take off?

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A House They Found on Zillow…

Rebarcamp Portland tomorrow

Crazy busy week for me this week. So not much time for blogging. I will however take some time out tomorrow and try and drop in at REbarcamp Portland .

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Rebarcamp Portland tomorrow