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Recently, the teams from Yahoo!, Zillow and Trulia got together to hammer out the details for the new data standard. In this video, Yahoo! Real Estate’s Steve Schultz interviews a number of the participants to learn more about the motivations behind and details surrounding the effort.
Posted February 21, 2008 12:24 PM
I was a little surprised nobody in the video mentioned RETS: (Real Estate Transaction Standard)... http://www.rets.org/.
Of course, working with RETS is a real pain. It is big and there is a steep learning curve. What is really needed is a RETS lite, which allows lots of developers to quickly and easily access information without the need to support the entire technology/knowledge stack to use RETS.
Posted by: Benson Wong at February 24, 2008 5:10 PM
They didn't mention RETS because these developers and product managers don't work in the real estate industry. I'm sure their standard format will be as faulty as RETS 1.0 is.
Posted by: KarlB at April 1, 2008 9:10 AM
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