{"id":1675,"date":"2007-07-19T08:07:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2007-07-19T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T15:09:39","slug":"zillowcoms-wacky-no-one-owns-a-wiki-policy-promotes-no-ones-name-brand-or-image-except-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1675\/zillowcoms-wacky-no-one-owns-a-wiki-policy-promotes-no-ones-name-brand-or-image-except-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Zillow.com&#8217;s wacky no-one-owns-a-wiki policy promotes no one&#8217;s name, brand or image &#8212; except its own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Drew Meyers from Zillow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1649\" target=\"_blank\">commenting on a post last week:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please note the real estate guide (which is a wiki) is VERY different than a blog. Since wikis are collaborative, no one person &#8220;owns&#8221; any of the content.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That turns out to be not quite true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillowblog.com\/selling-or-buying-better-check-that-calendar-&#8230;\/2007\/07\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zillow Blog featured two of my wiki contributions yesterday<\/a>. Both had been clobbered, if that&#8217;s the past tense of collaboration. No mention of me in the idyllic land of wiki, even though both ideas are very good &#8212; and no one at Zillow came up with them. Even so, guess who <i>was<\/i> promoted in the wacky world of no-one-owns-a-wiki.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes, Zillow.com happily promotes itself on the sweat of my labor. What genius! Who ever <i>thought<\/i> of such things? That Zillow, boy howdy!, you gotta get up purty damn early&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nice. They stand on the shoulders of giants. They just bury them in dirt so it looks like a hilltop. To top it all off, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoomf.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/41\" target=\"_blank\">guess who&#8217;s going to profit from the inbound links?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the unmolested &#8212; er, un-wiki-perfected &#8212; original articles, if that matters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/AZRep.php?Gfile=AZRepublic\/115.php\" target=\"_blank\">The best time to list your house: Thursday mornings<\/a><br \/>(We actually do this on Friday early morning now, but Zillow had no way of knowing that.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/AZRep.php?Gfile=AZRepublic\/117.php\" target=\"_blank\">Strategy, timing is everything in making home offer<\/a><br \/>(And as good an idea as this is, almost nobody ever does it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think this is a good example of how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1649\" target=\"_blank\">Zillow&#8217;s hoped for social networking scheme is self-defeating<\/a>. It&#8217;s understandable that they would want to keep their pseudo-encyclopedia free of spamvertising. This they could achieve simply by accepting or rejecting submissions. But my <i>only<\/i> incentive for coming up with and sharing good real estate ideas is to promote my own name, brand and image. Why would I do that if I know that my hard work is going to be expropriated?<\/p>\n<p>This is just dumb on Zillow&#8217;s part. I&#8217;ll have a lot more ideas. But I won&#8217;t be sharing them with Zillow.com and it&#8217;s sticky-fingered wiki. I think Wikipedia is an amazing accomplishment, but I don&#8217;t care what Jimbo Wales thinks a wiki should be like <i>over there<\/i>. I don&#8217;t write for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1675\/zillowcoms-wacky-no-one-owns-a-wiki-policy-promotes-no-ones-name-brand-or-image-except-its-own\/#more-1675\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Drew Meyers from Zillow commenting on a post last week: Please note the real estate guide (which is a wiki) is VERY different than a blog. Since wikis are collaborative, no one person &#8220;owns&#8221; any of the content. That turns out to be not quite true. Zillow Blog featured two of my wiki [&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":[3,4,6,5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-zillowcom","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1264,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1264\/do-you-zlog-making-the-zillow-real-estate-guide-work-for-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":1675,"position":0},"title":"Do You Zlog? 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I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1646,"url":"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\/","url_meta":{"origin":1675,"position":1},"title":"Zillow.com&#8217;s latest release me-too&#8217;s Trulia.com&#8217;s recent me-too release: Can either make the leap from ghost-town to community?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"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\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":739,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/739\/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\/","url_meta":{"origin":1675,"position":2},"title":"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 . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The News An upgrade made tonight to Zillow.com's on-line home evaluation system will add the following new functionality:Owners or listing agents for any of the 67 million homes in Zillow's database will be able to list those homes for sale at no cost.Owners of any Zestimable homes will be able\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Enduring Interest&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Enduring Interest","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/enduring-interest\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1256,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1256\/greg-peeing-on-the-tree-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1675,"position":3},"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":1257,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1257\/greg-peeing-on-the-tree-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1675,"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. 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