Article source for : Zillow enters citizen journalism
"Zillow":http://zillow.com began in 2005 or 2006.
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Zillow.com is an online real estate service dedicated to helping you get an edge in real estate by providing you with valuable tools and information.
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From the Jul 10, 2007 Seattle Post-Intelligencer "story":http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/117864.asp about Zillow's new feature:
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The Seattle company [Zillow] is taking the wraps off community Web pages for more than 6,500 neighborhoods in 130 U.S. cities. In a way, Zillow is attempting to combine its real estate data with the citizen journalism movement, encouraging people who live in select neighborhoods to upload photos, events, news and other information.
The idea is that people will not only visit Zillow to learn about homes, but -- one could imagine -- local restaurants, recent crimes or the history of the neighborhood. With this feature, you could also see Zillow moving down the path of trying to link people together in certain neighborhoods to share a lawnmower, sell a grill, host a fundraiser or, perhaps, find a date. And if that occurs, the real estate information and Zestimates offered by Zillow today might just be a Trojan horse into other lucrative advertising markets.
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Zillow blog "posting":http://www.zillowblog.com/new-today-welcome-to-the-neighborhood/2007/07/ about its new "Neighborhood Pages":http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/WA-Seattle/Ballard feature.
Jul 11, 2007 blog posting titled "Is Zillow building a ghost town?":http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/07/11/is-zillow-building-a-ghost-town/
Jul 11, 2007 Buzzmachine blog posting titled "Towns are hyperlocal social networks with data - people that is":http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/07/11/hyperlocal/
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