{"id":1261,"date":"2007-04-03T21:02:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T04:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2007-04-04T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T15:29:49","slug":"a-screen-shot-tour-of-zillowcoms-new-feature-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1261\/a-screen-shot-tour-of-zillowcoms-new-feature-set\/","title":{"rendered":"A screen-shot tour of Zillow.com&#8217;s new feature set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Amending this:<\/i><\/b> The site is live with Zillow.com founders Richard Barton and Lloyd Frink as the first Q&#038;A links:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/BartonFrink.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>These are screen shots I captured during a teleconference with Zillow.com Directory of Community Relations, David Gibbons. Everything is scaled to fit the weblog column, so the live pages, when they become available will look different.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/01ListedHomeQA.jpg\"\/><br \/>A Realtor-listed home with the Q&#038;A panel. The listing agent&#8217;s contact information is shown at the right.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/02QADetail.jpg\"\/><br \/>Detail of the full Q&#038;A panel. The hot links will click through to user profile pages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/03UserProfile.jpg\"\/><br \/>A user profile page with phone numbers plus email and web page links, along with links to all user-supplied content.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/04UnlistedHouseQA.jpg\"\/><br \/>A home that is not listed for sale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/05UserListedHouse.jpg\"\/><br \/>A home that has been listed for sale by a user other than the owner or listing agent. On the right is a link to that user&#8217;s profile page.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/06EZAds.jpg\"\/><br \/>EZ Ads as they will appear on each page, three ads to a page, cycling at any page refresh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/07EZAdCreate.jpg\"\/><br \/>The EZ Ads creation template. You have control over what you advertise, how much you spend and how quickly your ad buy is deployed. An ad will consist of a headline, an image, two lines of text and a clickable link to a page within or outside of Zillow.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/08EZAdBilling.jpg\"\/><br \/>The EZ Ads billing page. There is no automated billing\/recurring for now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/09EZAdConfirm.jpg\"\/><br \/>The EZ Ads confirmation screen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/10EZAdTally.jpg\"\/><br \/>EZ Ads stats, very rudimentary for now. Zillow plans to improve upon this in the future.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>BloodhoundBlog features extensive coverage of tonight&#8217;s announcement from Zillow.com:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1257\" target=\"_blank\">A broad overview of the new functionality and its implications<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1256\" target=\"_blank\">Zillow.com&#8217;s press release announcing the new software release<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1255\" target=\"_blank\">A podcast with Director of Community Relations David Gibbons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BloodhoundBlog contributor Brian Brady will also be covering the story at these sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/activerain.com\/blogsview\/69134\/Active-Rain-to-get\" target=\"_blank\">Active Rain<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/delmar.typepad.com\/brianbrady\/2007\/04\/new_kid_on_the_.html\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s Most Opinionated Mortgage Broker<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?cat=25\" target=\"_blank\">BloodhoundBlog has published more about Zillow.com than any other weblog or publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amending this: The site is live with Zillow.com founders Richard Barton and Lloyd Frink as the first Q&#038;A links: These are screen shots I captured during a teleconference with Zillow.com Directory of Community Relations, David Gibbons. Everything is scaled to fit the weblog column, so the live pages, when they become available will look different. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","9":"category-zillowcom","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1256,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1256\/greg-peeing-on-the-tree-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":0},"title":"Zillow.com&#8217;s press release detailing added functionality in new software release","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Zillow.com\u2122 Launches Home Q&A \"Ask Questions, Share Answers\"at the heart of numerous new features harnessing knowledge of agents, homeowners and neighbors Seattle -- April 4, 2007 -- Real estate Web site Zillow.com today announced the launch of Zillow\u2122 Home Q&A, among other new features aimed at further opening the site\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1488,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1488\/trulian-overdue-improvement-zillowcom-makes-home-qa-searchable-by-location\/","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":1},"title":"Trulian overdue improvement: Zillow.com makes Home Q&#38;A searchable by location","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Zillow Blog:One request we received over and over again (including impassioned pleas from our own president, Lloyd Frink) was to let people see a list of Home Q&A in their city or ZIP code. Agents and other real estate professionals want to see what questions are being asked\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3344,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3344\/as-good-as-a-link-how-would-you-like-to-co-brand-with-zillow\/","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":2},"title":"As good as a link: How would you like to &#8220;co-brand&#8221; with Zillow?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you want to see something huge in the guise of something that might seem quite small at first? Click here. This is new software from Zillow.com. It's supposed to go live at 9 pm PST, but it's already working for me. What's different? Look up in the upper left\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1408,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1408\/is-truliacom-the-unzillow-realtybot-emerges-from-beta-with-a-new-qa-feature-and-robust-system-wide-automated-alerts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":3},"title":"Is Trulia.com the UnZillow? Realty.bot emerges from beta with a new Q&#38;A feature and robust, system-wide automated alerts","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Come with me to the newly-reconfigured Trulia.com, freshly emerged from beta status. Let's search for an ideal house. The criteria we can use are limited -- location, type of structure, price range, bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage -- but we can still scare up some results. Plus which, if you really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1257,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1257\/greg-peeing-on-the-tree-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":4},"title":"Planet Zillow.com: Burgeoning Realty.bot grows, potentially, to become a self-sustaining residential real estate eco-system","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the news. We'll circle back for details and implications. 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