I fell better now that I’ve been forced to “analyze” the situation. My problem with all the “Redfin-Lover” stuff aimed at me, is it reminds me of…well, I can’t say it. When people like Mr. Puker, pukes…I wonder if he is just a “Redfin-Hater” as in “let’s hate all discount brokerages”. Of course that makes me defend Redfin even more.

As you can tell from Matt’s comment, we’re super excited about what we’ll be able to do now that the team is freed up to focus on adding other “cool” (Matt – is that your favorite word? ) bells and whistles. Ideas? Feedback? Send it our way!

Joe,
Redfin does post its press releases in the news section (http://www.redfin.com/stingray/do/landing-page?uid=PR-Redfin-VE) and on our blog we post more information such as today’s “Redfin Moves the Earth” (http://blog.redfin.com/blog/redfin/2007/01/seattle_and_bay_area_expansion.html) so people understand why we chose Virtual Earth and another post about what you’ll find on the new site from an in-the-trenches Redfinnian (http://www.redfin.com/blog/redfin/2007/01/redfin_on_virtual_earth.html).

I went to your site last night to see how you did it on the Zillow Embargoed press release. But I couldn’t do it “your way”, though I would have liked to.

If it were about a business model change…I could have done it “your way”. Alas…I am merely a real estate expert and not a GeekyGirl. Seriously, that’s what it came down to. I lacked the understanding of the techinical aspects to editorialize, condense, excerpt…so I decided it was unfair to Redfin to do anything but show it all.

Now if they were changing the fee structure, or the tour system, or something that involved actual real estate…well then I would have been less kind.

In fact I’ve promised “them” a piece entitled “How I REALLY FEEL about Redfin” LOL

I wholeheatedly agree, as I said in my comment, the story IS that Redfin will no longer have their self built search and is getting on the bandwagon. That IS newsworthy in my opinion.

As to publishing it all, it is presumptous of the “in the know” people to assume the many, many thousnads of RCG readers are aware of what Redfin is. To only show the bit that is newsworthy to the few “techie minds” would be a disservice to the Average Joe Reader.

There…no apologies Allen…start puking again. Purge your system. Get rid of the holiday weight. Apology rescinded

As for how cool we are.. We were cool but we’re less cool now that we don’t have the monopoly on searching listings using a map. In a few months with this new map platform hopefully we regain some coolness because we can focus on building coolness instead of maintaining our own map .

You have an infinite more experience than me as I’ve never been given an embargoed PR and do to the fact that my company is a publicly traded company, I’m not allowed to give them out to bloggers! I have signed NDAs before (Non-disclosure agreements), signed one with Zillow way back before they released a product as a matter of fact, but I can’t think of a time when I was given information, but not allowed to publish something until a specific time (And if I have, it was probably spammish, so I never mentioned it).

My take is to never publish a PR directly, but I have been known to quote them and/or write about the topics of the press release if I find them interesting.

How about a post from you to bloggers, on how to handle “Embargoed Press Releases”. I, for one, would appreciate it