Zillow, Yahoo!, Trulia, and others get together on data standards

Dan Woolley — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:58:45 +0000

Continuing the theme of love, standards, and sharing in the New Year, it’s good to see the news from Zillow, Yahoo!, Trulia, and other real estate listing sites that they will work together with RESO to ensure data standardization using RETS. That’s a big win for the brokers and the real estate industry as a whole, as it will add great efficiency to their processes. The RETS Data Schema workgroup deserves a lot of credit for creating a thorough and flexible XML schema over the last couple of years. I know that was a lot of work, but it’s showing great results now.

Coverage in the press and blogoshpere has been very positive:

2008 is starting off with a theme of standards and sharing

Dan Woolley — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:36:28 +0000

Lot’s of love going around this first full week of 2008. Nice to see everybody coming together – New Year’s resolutions perhaps?

Facebook, Google, and Plaxo join the DataPortability Workgroup. Goal is to release your data from the clutches of your social network in a standard way.
The OpenID train steams ahead: Google, IBM, and Verisign said to be joining. Goal is to allow you to login to all your favorite sites in a standard way with one id.
Connecting Standards at Inman in NYC. Goal is to leverage the work done by RESO on the standard RETS2 schema to allow more efficient syndication and updating of real estate listing data.

Standards allow developers to concentrate on creating value with their products instead of worrying about creating proprietary methods for authentication, import/export, etc. This leads to more efficient tools for consumers and businesses.

Did I miss any related standards announcements? Leave them in the comments.

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Zillow, Yahoo!, Trulia, and others get together on data standards

2008 is starting off with a theme of standards and sharing