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Re: 10 Open House Tips for Agents

Nina Paris — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:17:36 -0000

Those are wonderful tips for house agents, but I am sure that there are FEW house agents who are saying "Professionals", really do not fall these tips, so, I would say they are not professionals.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

Robbie Paplin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:46:57 -0000

Glad to hear you were able to put a stop to this quickly.

I'm dumfounded they were lazy/unethical enough to copy your front end work, and yet they'd go through the trouble of implementing a compatible back end. The lengths some people go to to avoid HTML/CSS/Javascript coding, I suppose...

Be thankful they hosted their site in the US. I can imagine the hell you'd go through if it was hosted in China or some other country doesn't have the IP laws the US has.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

Luis Antezana (luckylou) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:44:11 -0000

Glad your work got protected. IP and copyright protection are like police or tow truck drivers - generally unliked until they can help you. Imagine how recording artists feel having their hard work stolen every day by thousands.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

xp84 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:55:04 -0000

Oh. Wow. I would have thought that the backend would be the tough part to do... after going to the trouble to do build the app, it seems kind of silly to painstakingly craft the output to be just like yours in order to use your CSS and Javascript.
The lengths some people will go to avoid originality...

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

Robert Rouse — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:58:39 -0000

They cloned the front end. HTML/CSS/Javascript could only be obfuscated to a certain extent anyway. So there was no leak in the traditional definition of leak.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

Matt Wilson — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:01:44 -0000

I'd like to chime in with some past experience on a DMCA situation.

We got copyright on our web materials (mirrored the whole website into a DVD) and got copyright papers in 4 months (expedited). Lawyers submitted DMCA requests to other company - Yahoo and Google. Yahoo took their pages down from their index in couple of days. It took weeks for Google to do something about it but they did it afterwards.

The case went to litigation and settled with mediation.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

xp84 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:18:51 -0000

Do you know how your application's source code leaked? Seems like a parallel discussion should be had about how to make sure (employees? contractors? crackers?) don't walk out the door with the keys to the kingdom, so to speak. A difficult nut to crack all by itself.

Hope you're successful against the attack of the clones.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

fettemama — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:35:12 -0000

That's why I think ACTA would be actually a good thing. It's like the DMCA but with more powers for creators and less for parasitic consumers.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

QwikMobi — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:51:28 -0000

Thanks for sharing, imperative for Startups to share such knowledge/experiences.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

@CascadeRam — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:39:38 -0000

I'm glad to see that DMCA is effective and that you were able to put it to good use.

Too often, many people in the tech world attack the notion of copyrights and suggest that everything should be free for reuse (based on the notion that copying isn't "theft" and shouldn't be illegal because the original wasn't removed).

I hope these people realize that copyright violations hurt all creators (including tech companies) and that the hurt isn't just limited to book-authors, movie-creators etc.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

Todd Hooper — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:21:07 -0000

Good post Galen. I can certainly see the good side of the DMCA too. Hell, it's not a normal week at Zipline unless I've sent a couple of DMCA requests to take down pirated versions of our software. Although I've seen less of it since Megaupload went offline...

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

Robi Ganguly — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:35:58 -0000

Good for you Galen. Thanks for sharing, this is really helpful stuff.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

galenward — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:29:45 -0000

Thanks for pointing that out Marshall.

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

Marshall Haglund — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:20:29 -0000

Heard about this from @Randfish. Good to hear about the success. [Editorial - In paragraph 6, you repeat "we needed" twice]

Re: How I Learned to Love the DMCA

Tom Lianza — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:06:33 -0000

The copy is abundantly clear, but the filename "estately_ui_sprite.png" just really takes the cake. Good luck!

Re: Estately Smart Schools: A New Way to Find a Home

Homes For Sale Omaha Ne — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:29:04 -0000

Wow that is amazing. I wish you guys sold a product like that on the side to real estate agents. It would get me a million leads a day lol

Re: Estately Expanding to San Antonio

Eric — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:59:14 -0000

I totally remember those commercials. Next time you are passing through Austin, from Dallas to S.A. drop by and say howdy!

Re: Townhouses: So Popular Nobody Wants Them

JR | UCS — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:48:00 -0000

I'm from Seattle and enjoyed the post. Townhomes are usually a really cool alternative to those that can't imagine living in a condo and can't afford the price of a home near the city.

Re: New neighborhood, city, and zip code boundaries

galenward — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:43:19 -0000

Albert, I can tell you it's on the horizon, but we have no definite plans right now.

Re: New neighborhood, city, and zip code boundaries

Albert Jensen — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:26:49 -0000

Can anyone tell me if an IPAD app is in the near future for Estately?

Re: Starting 2012 Right: Hello New York! (and Dallas! and Fort Worth!)

galenward — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:35:30 -0000

Thank you for welcoming us, Richard!

Re: Starting 2012 Right: Hello New York! (and Dallas! and Fort Worth!)

Richardlends — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:07:00 -0000

nice blog Galen welcome Dallas. I have been a direct lender here for over 14 years. It's a great place to do business.

Re: Starting 2012 Right: Hello New York! (and Dallas! and Fort Worth!)

Rich Jacobson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:36:38 -0000

Awesome news, Galen! Best of luck to you and your team!

Re: Homes for Sale by School District: New Search Feature!

galenward — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:56:20 -0000

Hi Seattle Resident, I have a hunch those schools are alternative or funky schools and therefore don't use where you live as a criteria for getting in. Only some schools have geographical restrictions.

Does that sound correct to you?

Re: Homes for Sale by School District: New Search Feature!

Seattle Resident — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:21:44 -0000

I don't see the attendance zone for either:
"Salmon Bay School, Seattle, WA"
or
"BF Day, Seattle, WA"

... it shows the schools - but not the attendance zone.