{"id":1646,"date":"2007-07-10T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2007-07-12T08:38:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T15:38:38","slug":"zillowcoms-latest-release-me-toos-truliacoms-recent-me-too-release-can-either-make-the-leap-from-ghost-town-to-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1646\/zillowcoms-latest-release-me-toos-truliacoms-recent-me-too-release-can-either-make-the-leap-from-ghost-town-to-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Zillow.com’s latest release me-too’s Trulia.com’s recent me-too release: Can either make the leap from ghost-town to community?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With its Z6 software release, which goes live tonight, Zillow.com<\/a> adds a neighborhood level of user conversations, similar to Trulia.com’s<\/a> Trulia Voices feature released in May of this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From Zillow’s press release:<\/p>\n

Real estate Web site Zillow.com today added a number of new community features, opening up the site even further to user contributions. Chief among these additions are individual neighborhood pages in more than 130 U.S. cities (more than 6,500 neighborhoods in all). The pages are seeded with rich local demographic and real estate information, but are built for communities and neighbors to make their own. Anyone within a community has the ability to add photos, events, local news, engage in discussions and ask or answer questions about neighborhood real estate. <\/p>\n

“Adding the ability for neighbors to meet, share information and learn about their local neighborhood is a natural next step for Zillow. We started with individual Web pages and Home Q&A for more than 70 million homes, and today we’re bringing the conversation out to the neighborhood level,” said Lloyd Frink, Zillow president. “In the offline world, conversations happen all the time around homes, neighborhoods and communities. With these additions, we’re adding the data, tools and a platform for these conversations to thrive online — and help people become smarter about real estate, for free, in the process.”<\/p>\n

Neighborhoods are accessed from any of the 70 million Home Details pages within Zillow, or via the “local real estate” link at the bottom of every Zillow page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more, but we’ll come back to it.<\/p>\n

First: Is this a surprise to anyone? The new features were accidentally pre-announced last week in an inadvertently transmitted email<\/a>. I understood the portent of that email, as I’m sure did everyone else in the RE.net who got it: Responding to Trulia was Zillow’s obvious next move, and they’re fairly steady at doing major upgrades once a quarter. The only real surprise was that the hermetically-sealed start-up actually leaked something.<\/p>\n

But could it be that Zillow and Trulia are stuck in a tennis volley of answering each other’s features? Truila Voices was the loud claim from the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With its Z6 software release, which goes live tonight, Zillow.com adds a neighborhood level of user conversations, similar to Trulia.com’s Trulia Voices feature released in May of this year. From Zillow’s press release: Real estate Web site Zillow.com today added a number of new community features, opening up the site even further to user contributions. 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