Author: Galen

Did you see it yet? In 5 selected cities you can now see a street view, spin around, zoom in and out, watch your neighbor taking out the trash, look through people’s windows and even wander through the streets by clicking on the arrows. Amazon A9 had a similar feature, but the interface was lacking (only side shots) and clunky...

Seattle is a middle-of-the-road city when it comes to mass transit: we have a good bus system, but not much in the way of rail (our first line is coming in the next couple of years). Middle of the road on transit, but definitely on the slow-to-stopped end of car transit, especially if you commute across the lake. The crummy...

We forgot to post this video tour of ShackPrices when it came out. It’s missing some of our newest features (saved homes from the listings page and text search for instance), but it’s a great introduction to the site. It’s from Screeniac, an all screencast review site (what an interesting concept!).

We just rolled out a new set of features under My ShackPrices. Saved Shacks have a history now, Saved Searches are prettier and more functional, and you can now see more shacks on the map at a time. Saved Shacks When you save a shack, you can keep track of price changes, status changes (if they’ve accepted an offer or...

If you’re looking for nerd insights, you should head over to StartupsOnRails.com, a blog devoted to Ruby on Rails and the life of coding at a small startup. Both Doug and myself are posting there along with folks from a few other Ruby on Rails-based startups. We’ll let you know about some new features soon. I promise!