Archive for December, 2007

happy holidays

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

We hope everybody is enjoying the holiday season. We’ve been working on some stuff to roll out (yes, even on Christmas, we have no lives). Some of it is cosmetic, some of it is functional. At any rate, we’ll see most of you back after the holidays. Stay warm (if you’re on the East coast), stay sane (if you’re on the West coast like we are), but most of all stay safe.

Merry Christmas!

walkable rentals

Friday, December 7th, 2007

We’ve added the Walkable feature mentioned before to rentals as well. It’ll function there the exact same way as with real estate for sale.

syndication preferences

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

With the introduction of Zillow as a syndication partner, but where the checkbox to syndicate to them is unchecked by default, we thought it would be useful if users could set their syndication preferences at the account level.

This way if you always want to syndicate to Zillow, for example, you could go to your My Account page and edit your syndication preference to include Zillow, and then you wouldn’t need to keep checking its checkbox to syndicate to them on new postlets. Or if you want to not syndicate to any of our partners for whatever reason, you could uncheck any and then newly created postlets would automatically be set to not be syndicated to those sites.

Note that when you change your preference at the account level, that does not update all your postlets, but only sets the preference for new postlets when you create them.

new “walkable” feature

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

We’ve added another real estate feature. The “Walkable” feature shows you nearby grocery stores, restaurants, parks, retail stores, etc. so you can see what’s available around the neighborhood. Note that this tab on PLUS will only show, along with the Map tab, if the property address has been checked as mappable. And not to leave out our real estate users who don’t upgrade to PLUS, we also added a Walkable link to the Additional Links section.

Maybe we’re strange, but it’s even fun viewing the walkable just to see what’s around different properties. :)

photo changes

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

We hope everybody’s enjoying the festive season so far. We recently made a change to the number of photos you can upload for each postlet. After doing some research, we noticed that the majority of users upload 6 or fewer photos per postlet. Sure, some still upload to the maximum 12, but that isn’t as common. To balance what most users use/need, and costs for storage and data transfer, we decided to make Standard postlets allow 6 photos, while PLUS postlets allow up to 18.

Don’t worry, though, we’ll keep on adding more features and functionality so you won’t even miss those photos (or you can upgrade to PLUS for the additional and larger photos).