Trulia, the “other” venture-backed real estate portal — besides Zillow — has been gaining users and is now the seventh most used real estate site with 1.6 million unique visitors, according to the most recent ranking from comScore. Trulia’s Chief Executive Officer Pete Flint engaged us in a wide-ranging conversation on the occasion […]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Gannett Names PointRoll’s Head as Chief Digital Officer
January 16, 2008 – 5:57 pm
Gannett has named PointRoll chief Chris Saridakis as its new senior vice president-chief digital officer, reporting to longtime vet Jack Williams, who has been named president of the division. PointRoll is a rich media ad agency that was purchased by Gannett in June 2005 for $100 million. Since then, it has incubated new […]
Zillow Improves Z-estimates; Adds NCI’s Listings
January 11, 2008 – 5:44 pm
Zillow has been adding feature-after-feature and is about much more than its initial calling card: the “Z-estimates” of local house values. But Z-estimates are still a core feature, and they still have the ability to infuriate/please Realtors when they come up above (or below) actual market value. My wife the Realtor is still […]
MySpace Ramping Up Small Business Features
January 10, 2008 – 5:37 pm
MySpace is moving beyond personal and band profiles, and in fact, already has three million businesses, according to coverage by Paid Content of comments by Fox President and COO Peter Chernin at a CitiGroup conference in Phoenix.
Chernin says that the business application will be ramped up by the end of January […]
Microsoft Buying FAST for $1.2 Billion
January 9, 2008 – 4:56 am
FAST Search and Transfer, whose “enterprise search” makes every element of an organization searchable, is being sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion after the Oslo-based company severely missed sales goals and was forced last year to layoff a large number of employees. The company has recently sought to extend its role beyond […]
Report: GeoSign Has Big Layoffs, Splits into 2 Units
January 9, 2008 – 1:50 am
One of the quietest but apparently most successful producers in the local search space has been GeoSign, owned by webpreneur Tim Nye. The Canadian company has incubated TrueLocal, which aggregates local online databases, and is also invested in mobile directory player Go2 , among other geospatially-savvy companies.
But most of its fortune, apparently, […]
Update on Cox’s Kudzu
January 8, 2008 – 4:06 pm
Kudzu, the services-oriented ratings and review directory from Cox Search, has been under the radar for awhile, while similar services (i.e. Judy’s Book, InsiderPages and BackFence) have run into some turbulence. But a recent visit with GM Tom Bates and head of business development Edward Rosenfeld at Kudzu’s headquarters in suburban Atlanta […]