Whenever I out myself as a member of the Redfin search team to someone who has used Redfin, one of the first questions I get is, “so why do you guys use the Microsoft Map? Why didn’t you choose Google?”. The full answer is a bit long, but the short answer is easy: speed. Every… Read More
This morning I was scanning TechCrunch while still in bed, and I saw a news item about a hot new Silicon Valley startup, Adgregate Markets, that has either solved a really vexing problem in online security or has made the situation a lot worse. Given what we’ve been working on recently at Redfin, I’m pretty… Read More
I arrived at work today with a perplexing tech support e-mail in my inbox. A customer was claiming that although Redfin had never worked well in Firefox, last week we totally broke it. Needless to say, we were all a little surprised (and more than a little worried) over here, since we use Firefox all… Read More
UPDATED: As of January 31, 2008, Redfin supports Safari 3 without any of the trickery described below. We’ll leave the post here for the curious, but in the meantime, there’s no reason to go through these steps on our account. Last January, we ported Redfin from a proprietary map platform to Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, a… Read More
As was mentioned a few places on the web today, we’re proud to announce that Redfin has contributed to a project that will open source TurboGrid, the excellent JavaScript grid control made by the TurboAjax group. We’ve been really trying to hammer on our map page performance for the last few weeks, and it became… Read More