Trouble for Zillow

Our old friend LendingTree stopped showing up to conferences after agents and brokers clarified that they did not enjoy paying referral fees on their listing content. Now LendingTree has gone on the offensive to block Zillow from continuing their progress on building out their mortgage product. From CNBC.com   LendingTree has sued Zillow and three other rivals, accusing them of infringing two patents for methods to help people obtain mortgage loans over the Internet.   Adchemy, NexTag and QuinStreet were also named as defendants in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina. LendingTree, a unit of Tree.com, accused its rivals [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:02-07:00September 9th, 2010|Main category|0 Comments
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The Starfish and the Spider

I just read a great book that I would suggest others read called The Starfish and The Spider, The unstoppable power of leaderless organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom (available everywhere including the ipad). The book starts out by providing a chronicle of how science thinks the brain works. We have learned over the years that memories are not stored in one spot, but all over the brain - much like information indexed by Google is located all over the internet. As much as scientists wanted to hind heirarchy in the brain, it was not there - which makes [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:03-07:00September 9th, 2010|Main category|0 Comments
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Learn from Mike Wise’s Mistakes – Think before you Twitter

We can learn from Mike Wise’s mistake As we engage in Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and blogging, we have all become journalists.  Most of us have never been trained in the “rules” of journalism. We haven’t been trained on the code of ethics for journalism. When we get in to Twitter, it sometimes feel like we’re all by ourselves and nobody really ties our posts back to our “real” lives. NOT TRUE - just ask Mike Wise, sports reports from the Washington Post.  He created afalse post about an athlete in his Twitter Account as an “experiment".  He deliberately posted a [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:03-07:00September 7th, 2010|Main category|0 Comments
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Discover MLS Takes MLS System Designed for CAR/CALREDD Product National

Bret Wiener, one of the former founders of Concentric MLS, announced today in the following press release that the software originally built for the CAR/CALREDD initiative is now being offered on a national basis through his new company, Discover MLS.  Discover MLS has already made a significant impact on the MLS industry with its introduction of a Web 2.0 solution, designed on Adobe Flash®.  Other major vendors obviously took notice as they are in the process of developing new MLS versions that allow them to offer similar features such as the multi-tasking session features offered by Discover MLS. Read full Press [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:03-07:00September 1st, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|0 Comments
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