| Let's talk houses, Zillow says
Zillow.com is taking steps today toward creating a virtual real estate conversation, and company officials expect real estate agents to do a lot of the talking. People spend a lot of time talking about real estate, said Richard Barton, chairman and chief executive of the Seattle-based Web site. "Trying to get these conversations online is the long-term dream of what Zillow is trying to do." Barton's theory is that conversations start with questions, so Zillow's new Home Q&A allows anyone to ask anything about any house, and lets anyone answer. Other new features let users set up a free profile page, post notice of any home for sale and buy cheap, quick ads targeting any ZIP code. Home Q&A will list questions and answers on a home's Zillow page. Barton expects users to ask about details of a particular home and other things, such as the closest coffee shop or the best commuting routes.
PLUG-IN: V2R announces Active UI for Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0
V2R Vision to Reality today announced the release of its V2R Active UI, the first fully graphical animated user interface (GUI) for the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6 platform. V2R's Active UI platform has been designed in a way to ensure, that the user may use the device quick and easy in the most intuitive and convenient way. Together with the V2R Active UI core engine, V2R offers plenty of free add-on's in different animations, functionalities and designs to make the V2R Active UI as personal as possible. V2R Active UI is based on V2R's i2i platform and V2R's new Online Design Studio which is the best graphical development engine for applications and plug-in's. V2R Active UI has been developed as a Today Screen (for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs) and Home Screen plug-in (for Windows Mobile Smartphones) with a standard V2R icon- and animation-set and interesting enough, it seems to work similar to Samsung's SGH-i600 Home Screen Carousel (see our recent review here): The V2R Active UI Home- and Today Screen plug-in allow users to access the most wanted applications, settings or documents directly from the Today-/Home Screen.
Free Page Creator Tools From The Big Three: Trash or Treasure?
Have a small business in need of a website, but no budget for professional design services? Yahoo, Google and Microsoft all offer free small business site creation tools that can help you develop a professional online presence. Keep reading for an in-depth review of what Office Live Basics, Google Page Creator and Yahoo SiteBuilder include and how they work. Additionally, we'll consider ease of use, positives and negatives, and recommended uses for each tool. No knowledge of HTML is required to create sites using any of these services. Experienced webmasters who want direct access to the code or want high-end business applications will need to look beyond these products. The goal of these products is to provide the tools needed to develop a simple, but functional web presence. The Winner: Microsoft Office Live Basics One of the more intriguing features of the Office Live Basics program is the free domain name that comes as part of the package.
Claria Completes Successful Beta of PersonalWeb
800,000 beta users validate the benefits of personalization. Partners to utilize the underlying personalization platform to power their consumer applications. REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Claria(SM) (http://www.claria.com/) announced today it has completed a successful beta test of PersonalWeb(SM) (http://www.personalweb.com/), a free dynamic, personalized home page that automatically brings consumers content and advertising to match their online interests. Claria introduced PersonalWeb in April 2006 as the proving ground for its underlying personalization platform, and more than 800,000 people have installed the product that automatically learns their interests, finds content to match and displays that content in an easy-to-navigate start page format.
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