Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Congratulations to the Zoomf team: their property search site is now showing results from the whole country.
This has been a big task: unlike the paid for inclusion property sites, Zoomf is a search engine that includes all the property listings it can find, so they’ve had to build a huge database of all the agent [...]
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Monday, November 12, 2007
This article in Director (the monthly magazine of the Institute of Directors) contrasts the start-up options of the US with those of the UK. The US situation sounds extremely favourable:
Rents are low
Investors are very open to investing in start-ups
Bright people want to work in start-ups, rather than big established businesses
The market is huge compared to [...]
As part of its recent design upgrade, the team at Zoomf.com has introduced a very interesting new feature: the ability to search visually within a defined polygon on a map. Here’s an example.
Here’s how it works:
Go to http://www.zoomf.com and start a property search (e.g. type in “NW3″ and press search)
Once you’re looking at the search [...]
Thursday, October 25, 2007
News International is (according to this article) about to launch a vertical search engine focussed on the UK property market. To some, this might seem like a fairly uninteresting development in online property advertising. There are lots of property websites in the UK, Rightmove being the most prominent. Zoomf (who I’m involved with as a [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Yesterday I presented at the AdMonsters EU Leadership Forum in London. AdMonsters is an international group of people working in online advertising operations and the group included people from a wide range of online publishers and agencies, including Channel 4, the Guardian, News International, AOL, Harvest Digital and Digitas.
My presentation is on Slideshare and here:
I [...]
Monday, September 10, 2007
This is a movie of slides plus video from my presentation last Thursday. It was weird spending so much time listening to myself speaking again when I made this: I hope it sounds better to you than it did to me!
Friday, September 7, 2007
I participated in a discussion last night about property and web 2.0, sponsored by my friends at Zoomf.com. I presented a personal view of what we mean by web 2.0, and Mike Carter spoke about how it’s impacting the property business here and in the US. We were joined by Andy Etches from Brightsale and [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
I’m one of the panelists at tomorrow night’s seminar on Property and Web 2.0, hosted by Zoomf.com. There are a few spaces left, I gather. I’m giving an overview of what web 2.0 is, Mike Carter’s going to apply that to the property market, and the other panellists will be introducing their work as well. [...]
I helped to run a consumer forum for Zoomf.com last week. Poppy’s written it up here. I had a great time, and it’s always incredibly useful to listen to first hand comment. The group was young and skewed toward rented property, which means it’s not 100% representative, but it was terrific to hear the things [...]
I’ve been talking to the team at Walkit.com over the last few days. They’ve got a fabulous website, that creates walking routes for people, showing them calories consumed and CO2 saved if they walk instead of driving, and today they launched walkit.com for Edinburgh, just in time for the festival. The team is tiny, [...]