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New Website, New Boston MLS Rules: Unleash The Hounds!
I remember exactly where I was when I got the news that the Boston-area MLS — the database that brokers use to share listings —
Welcome Microsoftlings, We Love You
A job applicant just told me Thursday that “Everybody knows you don’t like Microsoft or Amazon people.” Just last week, a board member heard the
Lightweight Headless Test for Trailing Commas in JavaScript
Yesterday one of my co-workers spent hours reproducing and tracking down a bug that turned out to be a stray comma. Unfortunately, Microsoft Internet Explorer
Should Yammer Really Be Called Crammer?
Have you heard? Yammer is Twitter for corporations. On Monday it launched. On Wednesday, it won TechCrunch50’s top prize. By this morning, Yammer was reporting
Honey, I Shrunk the Startups!
Barack Obama and John McCain are going to spend the next two months arguing over the economy, mostly about how to foster innovation. The politicians
Message in a Bottle
We’ve been experimenting with messages in various locations across Redfin.com. Recently, we placed an announcement in a message box at the top of our map
A Safari into Freakish Depth
A gorgeous new version of Redfin was just released. The premise of the release is Freakish Depth: to update our website with up-to-the-minute data on
“This is the Big One”
I had an egg sandwich this weekend with an oncologist who asked for a meeting so he could roll out a dozen ways to revolutionize
“114 Pounds of Absolute Perserverance”
What do you make of this: The New York Times reports today that a San Diego couple, the Ummels, is suing their real estate agent
The Real Estate Scientist
Redfin is launching tonight The Real Estate Scientist, an initiative to use empirical techniques to improve the way our agents and clients buy and sell
Redfin on the Today Show … tomorrow!
We’re going to be on the Today Show Friday morning! Are we joining Al Roker for the weather (and housing) forecast? We’ve been sworn to
Redfin Rolls Out The Red Carpet
We are voices without faces. We are emoticons. We are Redfin Direct Agents. On Tuesday, November 13th, all of that changes. Redfin is opening our
