Bloggers Connect and Trulia Blogs…
Written by Mike Carter on July 24, 2008After all my whining that I wasn’t at Connect yesterday, I almost felt as though I was there thanks to the marvels of Twitter. Anyone that also wants to stay on top of the action should track the tag ‘#icsf‘ over at Summize, that way you won’t miss a tweet.
Zillow’s Drew Meyers has already written up a great post summarizing what went down at one of the morning panel sessions yesterday, the best gem to come from it seems to be from Linda Davis who (quite rightly) chimed…
“If you have a crappy business, a blog isn’t going to help.”
And whilst everyone is playing with real estate trading cards and getting excited about blogging at Connect, Trulia seem to be releasing their very own blogging platform. As reported by our gorgeous friends at AgentGenius, Trulia are (very quietly at this point) releasing their own blogging platform for agents that’s not a million miles away from what we’re used to seeing at ActiveRain. Is this going to crazily shake things up over in the US? We’ll have to wait and see. The usual concerns surrounding SEO and ownership of content are being aired in the comments sections of various posts covering the story but one thing is for sure, Trulia’s got consumer traffic…and tonnes of it.
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July 30th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I love that Linda Davis quote!! It will be interesting to see what happens with this - I agree it is creating some serious buzz. I still think with all these search engine companies coming onto the scene - they all need something unique…and maybe this is their new unique thing. My favorite example of this is PropertyMaps which has a fantastic google maps tool. Useful, yes, unique, yes. But the blog…we’ll see.