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January 7, 2008

Neighborhood of the week

Useless Bay, in Langley, Washington. Washington has a lot of ridiculous names, but Useless Bay is my new favorite.

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January 4, 2008

Notes in depth: searching and tagging

We didn’t get all web 3.0 on you and add tags and notes and ratings and widgets to every property, but for the folksonomy lovers out there, you can get all the benefits of tagging without the buzzwords or user interface clutter. Tagging Step 1: Write a note with your tag (“keeper“) Tagging Step 2: Use the same keyword in...

Categories Features/Interface Design
December 28, 2007

Notes: design decisions

We worked hard to make Estately exceedingly easy to jump into and start searching for homes, yet also extremely powerful. This means we limited the myriad of search options we could have added, combined other options, and made the options that only 0.1% of the users in this world “absolutely need” accessible via the text search box. Our goal is...

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December 27, 2007

What are the odds?

Of you being interested in a the same house another client of your agent? Slim to none, but it happened. They’ll describe the outcome this weekend.

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December 19, 2007

Notable new feature on Estately

I have always had a horrible memory, but recently technology has made it even worse. I only remember keywords now and whenever I want to remember something, I search my computer or my gmail (I write myself memory emails). I think a lot of people are like me in this respect. So when I look at one of the 42,643...

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December 17, 2007

Estately turns one year old

Estately first launched as ShackPrices a year and a few days ago and we’ve been improving ever since. We’re looking forward to continuing to improve Estately’s real estate search in the coming year. Thanks for all the support!

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