On Wednesday, Redfin announced a partner program in which a small group of agents committed to our principles of technological efficiency, customer service and openness would serve clients who had browsed their profile and requested their service, in outlying areas of our markets where less than 10% of our audience now looks for homes. TechFlash […]
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Redfin released a sprawling, glorious update to our website last night that changes Redfin in two fundamental ways: We built data-driven agent profiles, showing every deal our own agents have done and every customer review, even on deals that failed. We opened up our business to partner agents and we published all their deals too,
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Redfin is happy to announce SitemapGen4j 1.0. SitemapGen4j is a library to generate XML sitemaps in Java. Download SitemapGen4j 1.0 What’s an XML sitemap? Quoting from sitemaps.org: Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is
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Those of us on the Redfin data team see every data problem that gets reported by our users. Of course, if we were to respond directly to each of them, we’d never get anything else done (okay, our data’s not that bad), but luckily the product management team takes care of that for us. One
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“Life,” William James once said, “is in the transitions.” He wasn’t talking about weddings and graduations, but the lonely moments before, when a decision still hangs in the balance, and irrelevant details are so vivid that they’ll stick in your mind for years to come: the melted-plastic smell of a U-Haul cab; the iron sound
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We learned this weekend that Seattle may be on the verge of closing its second newsaper, the Seattle PI. A few days earlier, Clay Shirky had compared journalists to old Russian hard-liners who had never lived under — or imagined — any other regime. First Henry Blodget and then The Atlantic Monthly began wondering aloud
