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New Trulia Home Roll Widget – Now with Images!
We’ve been working on a new version of our Home Roll widget and I’m happy to announce that it’s now available for everyone to use! It’s a super-visual tool that gives your website users a snapshot of the latest homes for sale in a market. Highlights of the new version include: Thumbnail images! Snapshot of the six [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Trulia Home Roll Widget – Now with Images!", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2008/05/02/new-trulia-home-roll-widget-%e2%80%93-now-with-images/" });
Continue reading...Trulia integrates Google Street View nationwide!
8. April 2008
Starting today our users can walk the neighborhoods…from the comfort of their very own couches. We are excited to announce that we now have Google Maps Street View technology integrated on homes for sale, recently sold homes, and property records across the U.S. Now, house hunters can stand in front of a house, walk along [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trulia integrates Google Street View nationwide!", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2008/04/08/trulia-integrates-google-street-view-nationwide/" });
Continue reading...Checking In - Trulia Powering Your Site’s Real Estate Search
2. April 2008
In January, we announced the launch of the Trulia Publisher Platform (TPP) – a way for Trulia to power the real estate search experience for other websites. We’re very pleased with the interest from publishers and to hear that TPP is a good fit for all types and sizes of websites, including daily newspapers, weekly publications, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Checking In - Trulia Powering Your Site’s Real Estate Search", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2008/04/02/checking-in-trulia-powering-your-sites-real-estate-search/" });
Continue reading...Software Developers Should Work at Trulia: The Top 10 List
12. February 2008
By now most people interested in real estate have heard of Trulia-the-real-estate-startup, Trulia-the-slicker-than-whale-snot-Web-site, and Trulia-the-talent-magnet. But unless you’ve been on the inside, it might not be obvious that there’s also a Trulia-the-cool-as-heck-workplace lurking underneath our glittery Web 2.0 threads that’s a heaven for us engineer types. Sure, I’m biased, having been with the company for [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Software Developers Should Work at Trulia: The Top 10 List", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2008/02/12/software-developers-should-work-at-trulia-the-top-10-list/" });
Continue reading...Inman Connect: full of geeky enthusiasm
7. August 2007
(photo by whiteafrican on flickr) The dust has finally settled from the Inman Real Estate Connect conference which finished last week and given me a chance to reflect on some of what I heard from industry leaders and the star filled line up of speakers. The Inman conference is a unique event for the industry and all [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Inman Connect: full of geeky enthusiasm", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/08/07/inman-connect-full-of-geeky-enthusiasm/" });
Continue reading...Cool video: how consumers search online for real estate
1. August 2007
Real Estate Video by - Real Estate Blogger Remember Trulia Hindsight? At the Inman Connect conference in our fair city of San Francisco today, I’m going to show parts of this video and wanted to make it available on the blog as well. In partnership with uber cool design firm Stamen we’re back again with more [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Cool video: how consumers search online for real estate", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/08/01/really-cool-trulia-video-as-seen-at-inman/" });
Continue reading...Trulia Hindsight: more cool stuff
29. May 2007
**NOTE (5/30/07–10 am PT): due to high demand on Trulia Hindsight, we are experiencing technical difficulties. We’ll get this resolved asap - sorry for the inconvenience** Have you ever wished you could turn back the clock and check out how your home town developed over time? Trulia Hindsight, a new site that we’ve developed with design firm [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trulia Hindsight: more cool stuff", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/05/29/trulia-hindsight-more-cool-stuff/" });
Continue reading...Trulia at Web 2.0 Expo
19. April 2007
This year’s Web 2.0 Expo was this week in beautiful San Francisco, and yours Truli(a) gave a workshop on Sunday, April 15th. It was a good crowd of 200 developers and assorted other techies. We talked about designing and building modern Web applications, with lots of hands-on examples drawn from Trulia, music site lala.com and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trulia at Web 2.0 Expo", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/04/19/trulia-at-web-20-expo/" });
Continue reading...Recipe for a Tasty Real Estate Mashup
3. April 2007
Editor’s Note - Given that Trulians don’t have a monopoly on quality blog content, we’ve decided to periodically post contributions from our friends and colleagues. We are equal opportunity - if you want to be a guest contributor, just let us know. Guest Blogger: Rory Siems What is the main way a good restaurant keeps [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Recipe for a Tasty Real Estate Mashup", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/04/03/recipe-for-a-tasty-real-estate-mashup/" });
Continue reading...truDat API love
7. March 2007
The developers over at digital1 built truDat spent a few days building a mashup with the Trulia API - and it made “Mashup of the Day” over at programmableweb.com. TruDat is a simple to use Mashup that allows you to sort through the data supplied by trulia.com to understand price and inventory trends. TruDat also [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "truDat API love", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/03/07/trudat-api-love/" });
Continue reading...Talkin’ about Lead Generation: mobile phones and the web
23. February 2007
I spent the month of January trying to find a roommate for an apartment I moved into in December. I put ads on Craiglist pointing people to my blog, which had a description of the apartment, pictures and a chat client that I planned to use to turn interested readers into a roommate. The ad [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Talkin’ about Lead Generation: mobile phones and the web", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/02/23/talkin-about-lead-generation-mobile-phones-and-the-web/" });
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2. May 2008
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