{"id":1263,"date":"2007-04-04T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2007-04-04T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T19:26:25","slug":"random-observations-on-the-new-zillowcom-feature-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1263\/random-observations-on-the-new-zillowcom-feature-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Random observations on the new Zillow.com feature set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your profile can include an embedded YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p>Your profile photo is going to be reduced to 66 pixels in width, so if you scale it to that size before uploading, you&#8217;ll get marginally better quality. (Or is it 100 pixels tall?)<\/p>\n<p>In general, photo scaling seems pretty fuzzy to me. For your own listings, it&#8217;s worth your while to scale to their width (267 pixels?) before you upload. (Or is it 200 pixels tall?)<\/p>\n<p>The text editor for your profile is blog-like except that UTF-8 high order characters are being dumbed down to 7-bit ASCII, so you might as well dumb them down yourself &#8212; again to keep quality control.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiki text editor will smart paste, like the ActiveRain editor, but it won&#8217;t retain your CSS. That means you&#8217;ll probably have to blow in an extra return between paragraphs. I don&#8217;t know if you can past in raw HTML, which would be my preference.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s business? Zillow.com&#8217;s David Gibbons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Site traffic is definitely up though it&#8217;s not as much of a vicious spike as say when the WSJ story suddenly hit in February. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what MSM pickup there is through the rest of the week. Early activity around Q&#038;A and EZ Ads looks great with a fair amount of &#8220;testing&#8221; going on &#8212; I&#8217;m impressed by how quickly some questions were answered. EZ Ads in particular is looking surprisingly good. A few advertisers are testing ads in multiple (>10) zip codes. Too early to tell the impact on for sale postings but it looks like a bunch of homes have already been reported for sale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A bunch from me. I&#8217;d love to be able to do this with a tab- or comma-delimited file. Even typing into a form would be faster. If the house is already listed, Zillow can ignore me.<\/p>\n<p>Page loads do not seem to me to be inordinately slow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/><b><i>Further notice:<\/i><\/b> I said: &#8220;I&#8217;d love to be able to do this with a tab- or comma-delimited file. Even typing into a form would be faster.&#8221; In retrospect, this multi-step, manual entry is a passive barrier against the kinds of vandalism <a href=\"http:\/\/myblog.daltonsazhomes.com\/2007\/04\/03\/zillows-next-step\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1263\/random-observations-on-the-new-zillowcom-feature-set\/#more-1263\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your profile can include an embedded YouTube video. Your profile photo is going to be reduced to 66 pixels in width, so if you scale it to that size before uploading, you&#8217;ll get marginally better quality. (Or is it 100 pixels tall?) In general, photo scaling seems pretty fuzzy to me. For your own listings, [&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-1263","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":5409,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5409\/prequel-to-speaking-in-tongues-displaying-author-images-in-wordpress\/","url_meta":{"origin":1263,"position":0},"title":"Prequel to Speaking in Tongues:  Displaying Author Images in WordPress","author":"Cheryl Johnson","date":"November 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Several months ago, Greg described this process in Project Bloodhound speaking in tongues: To whom am I speaking? 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