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Even though a number of our employees are foreign-born and don’t know Peyton Manning from Lesley Visser (Peyton’s the one on the right, guys), we’re fired up about the Super Bowl. Don’t get your hopes up for any Trulia commercials during this year’s broadcast, though. With the average price of a 30-second spot at about [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Super Bowl thoughts", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/02/02/super-bowl-thoughts/" });
Continue reading...Friday, December 22, 2006
…my Trulia gave to me: a free plasma TV. Well, actually, Trulia didn’t give it to me. As an employee, I’m not eligible to win the bait that we’re dangling to get people to take our user survey; and even if I were eligible, the chances that my name would be drawn are only like [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On the first day of Christmas…", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2006/12/22/on-the-first-day-of-christmas/" });
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Halloween’s always been one of my favorite holidays. None of the distracting religious overtones associated with holidays like Christmas or Yom Kippur; none of the inevitable pangs of inadequacy inspired by Valentine’s Day; none of the blatant corporate consumerism behind travesties such as Grandparents Day (first Sunday after Labor Day) and National Answer Your Cat’s [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trick or Trulia", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2006/10/25/trick-or-trulia/" });
Continue reading...Friday, August 25, 2006
I was among the privileged few who had the honor of sporting one of the Mr. Marker Man costumes at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference a couple weeks ago. Now, I happen to have a pretty respectable mascoteering resumé — yes, I have a full gorilla suit at home in my closet — so [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "When Mascots Attack", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2006/08/25/when-mascots-attack/" });
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 12, 2006
A consumer who visits a map-based real estate website such as Trulia expects the application to meet some basic standards of accuracy and consistency. For example, the markers on the map should correspond to the actual locations of the properties. Simple, right? That’s what we thought too… To plot a point on a map, you need [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Geocoding: More Than Meets the Eye", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2006/07/12/geocoding-more-than-meets-the-eye/" });
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Friday, February 2, 2007
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