For the first time in many, many years, I’m riding in black leather over the East River toward Manhattan. Lamont, the 67-year-old man driving the Towncar, has already explained why he lives in New York: “I love the night life.” He said that he hopes to die at 94, “killed by somebody’s husband.” He told… Read More
Glenn Kelman recently observed that Silicon Valley pundits have gone off the deep end arguing that intellectual property should be free Free FREE! Glenn’s correct- we all gotta eat, and if we can’t get paid for our work, most of us won’t do it. That applies to musicians, visual artists, computer programmers, mechanical engineers, and… Read More
Yesterday, we blogged about a Redfin screenshot that appeared on PhotoshopDisasters, showing a gigantic dog peering through the sliding glass doors of a Shoreline listing. The screenshot was at the top of Reddit all night, and even though PhotoshopDisasters didn’t link to our site, the listing drew 52,036 views on Redfin. The average number of… Read More
Why has TechCrunch, the technology community’s most influential voice, taken its stand against creative rights? The latest attack has been against Hasbro, for disabling the Facebook game Scrabulous, which is nothing more than Hasbro’s Scrabble game on Facebook. In doing this, Hasbro has become a caricature of evil for fighting in court against freedom, pluck… Read More
There’s a home for sale in Shoreline that is either much smaller than it seems, or is being menaced by a giant golden shepherd. Here’s one of the listing photos: The screen shot, taken from Redfin’s site, has already been featured on PhotoshopDisasters. Seemingly the only rational explanation for the photo is that it’s a… Read More
For a long time, we have all brooded and marveled at how the entire Internet has been deformed by the enormous mass of Google at its center. Just last Friday, Google seemed to conclude that the size of the Web is no larger than the size of its index. Websites aren’t built anymore for people… Read More
A lot of our customers ask what’s different about buying new construction. First of all, you’re buying from the person who built it, not the person who called it home. Often, the property is just one of many they are trying to sell. We asked our agents who specialize in new construction for the most… Read More
In our last release we added a “Share on Facebook” link to our details pages that when hovered over brings up a menu from AddThis letting you bookmark the home to your favorite social bookmarking service. Before launching the feature we debated what the top service would be. Glenn, voted for Delicious, I voted for… Read More
Lots of prominent venture capitalists, including Fred Wilson and now Bill Gurley, are writing this week about the dearth of IPOs first reported by Matt Richtel in the New York Times. This quarter was the first since 1978 that a venture-financed company didn’t go public. But the real headline isn’t the dearth itself, but the… Read More