Bronte Media

I had the opportunity to speak at the Inman Connect conference in New York yesterday morning on a panel along with Pete Flint of Trulia, a meta-listing real estate search engine.

The panel, and the conference, was hosted by Brad Inman, who is a kind of Danny Sullivan for real estate (or perhaps Danny is the Brad Inman of search, either way). I just wanted to publicly thank Brad. He really does appreciate new ideas and technologies, and the conferences themselves are very well put together. If you are out on the west coast, I’d highly recommend you go to the flagship show in July.

Zillow might even be live by then.

There is quite a buzz about the real estate venture founded by Rich Barton and the Expedia team and The Journal peeled away a few facts today, including that the site would be live within six months and the company received $32m in financing from Benchmark and Technology Crossover Ventures. The article also generally alluded to the firm providing information tools around the buying and selling process and that they would sell advertising around those tools. i.e. They wont be a brokerage firm. i.e. No one really knows anything more than they did before.

One last thing on Brad: He has also founded a new startup called Turnhere.com, a library of short documentary type films on real estate, travel and neighborhoods that a user navigates via a map.