HomeScout is alive
By Bradley Inman, Sunday, March 4, 2007.Bookmarking Sites
Homescout was the earliest version of the Trulia idea, dating back to 1996 when a software engineer from Seattle figured out how to scrape listings from broker Web sites. Check out their original Web site. The engineers also formed a company in the online auto parts business called the Cobalt Group and decided to get out of the real estate business. HomeScout was acquired by HomeShark and eventually became part of iOwn, which was started by Ned Hoyt who had a jump on Lending Tree's Doug Lebda.
But iOwn struggled, vanished and sold the HomeScout listing service to HomeGain. The iOwn mortgage service was bought by CitiMortgage. HomeScout sat inside the womb of HomeGain for the last 6 years. In the morning, HomeScout will be relaunched, giving this Web service at least nine lives.
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Submitted by Anonymous on March 4, 2007 - 10:36am.
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Submitted by Anonymous on March 4, 2007 - 7:03pm.
I have been watching the housing bubble for awhile and have come to the conclusion that it's a lot worse in some places. For example, if you search for "Housing Bubble" at Google Trends http://www.google.com/trends you will see that on a per capita basis, nine of the top ten search emanation points are in California.
Anyway, I have been posting this side of the story on the Housing Bubble Blog and my posts have been disappearing. They'll often make it there, but then after a couple hours are gone. I've seen other similar posts come and go too.
I have come to the conclusion that such posts violate the groupthink over there and are being censored. In fact, if you say anything that at all challenges the party line, you are immediately branded a "Troll". The whole thing comes across as quite cultish.
So next time you are looking at a blog and thinking how wonderful open communication on the Internet is, just know that the Thought Police are patrolling.
If you don't believe me, give this a shot yourself on said blog:
http://thehousingbubbleblog.com/
Submitted by Anonymous on March 5, 2007 - 12:26am.
Addition to the previous comment…corporations don’t push ideas and some innovations for fear of lost money! They need to get over themselves and the green constantly in front of their face
Hello,: http://www.real-estate-designers.com do the web design companies check for browser compatibility? i have been told that a lot of people use browsers besides IE. is it true?
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Submitted by Anonymous on July 19, 2007 - 3:48pm.
Wow, what’s next, the return of Seinfeld to primetime tv? It is amazing how, even in a world that thrives on innovation, the next new thing, and rejecting the past as passé, sometimes the best ideas are those that we’ve already had. This was a great tool, though, for those of us who keep up with housing markets, not to mention the average consumer who is looking for a home in another area of the country, and it’s good to see that it’s back, even if I had left it for dead some time ago. I’m actually planning a serious move myself in the next year, and I will certainly be making use of it. With any luck, the only thing that will change will be the look and design of the site itself, since it does look a little dated now.