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The Best Blog Post I’ve Read in a Long Time
Anyone who reads this blog even casually knows that Union Square Venture’s Fred Wilson is one of my favorite bloggers. He somehow writes every day,
What Starbucks Learned About Learning
As part of our 2010 brown-bag series of workshops, Redfin on Friday hosted Christine McHugh to talk about what she learned about training folks in
Synchronous/Asynchronous Switching with Varnish
When your webapp is serving up content that’s expensive to generate, you may want to serve it up asynchronously- via AJAX calls. This is particularly
The Hangover
Redfin has hardly been an advocate for real estate tax credits. When the original first-time home-buyer credit was set to expire last November, we urged
ESI and Caching Trickery in Varnish
Varnish is a high performance, flexible, open source HTTP accelerator. We started using Varnish at Redfin in our last major release, a few weeks ago.
Engineer-to-Engineer Talk: How and Why Twitter Uses Scala
To kick off our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures on new technologies and interesting problems in consumer software, we invited in the Great Alex
Diary of a Pandemic, Part 3: The Furlough (And the Un-Furlough)
The third and final part of Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman’s account of what it has been like to run a publicly traded company hit hard by the pandemic.
Diary of a Pandemic, Part 2: Sell, Sell, Sell
Part two of Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman’s account of what it has been like to run a publicly traded company hit hard by the pandemic.
Diary of a Pandemic, Part 1: We’ve Been Under-Reacting for a Long Time
An account from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman about what it has been like to run a publicly traded company hit hard by the pandemic.
Make your Listing Shine on Redfin with Video Tours and 3D Virtual Walkthroughs
Bring your listing to life through video. Homes with videos get more views and now you can upload a video tour directly to Redfin.com.
Matterport for iPhone brings 3D virtual walkthroughs to the masses
Interactive 3D virtual home tours can now be created using an iPhone with Matterport’s new software and the results are impressive.
Let Yourself In. Redfin Launches Self-Tour Feature for Vacant Listings
With Direct Access, buyers can use their Redfin app to unlock the door and tour vacant Redfin listings without an agent.
