{"id":25059,"date":"2012-12-19T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=25059"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T19:22:27","slug":"tims-new-obsession-redfin-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/tims-new-obsession-redfin-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim&#8217;s New Obsession: Redfin Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%; font-style:italic;\">Full disclosure: The Tim is <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/some-noteworthy-personal-news\/\" title=\"Some Noteworthy Personal News...\">employed by Redfin<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Redfin (my employer) <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.redfin.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/a_beautiful_find.html\" title=\"A Beautiful Find\">just launched<\/a> a fun new feature today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/\" title=\"Redfin Collections\">Redfin Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; width: 600px; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/\" title=\"Redfin Collections\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Redfin-Collections-600x796.png\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"Redfin Collections\" alt=\"Redfin Collections\" width=\"600\" height=\"796\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Collections you can curate publicly-visible galleries of listing photos from nearly all of Redfin&#8217;s markets across the country.  Although I was not at all connected to the team that developed this feature, as an employee I&#8217;ve been in the private beta for the last few months, and let&#8217;s just say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/tim-e-u552876\" title=\"Tim's Redfin Collections\">I may have gone a little overboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I currently have 25 different collections.  Here are a few of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/tim-e-u552876\/czech-sky-c98\" title=\"Czech Sky\">Czech Sky<\/a>: If the name isn&#8217;t self-evident, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/real-actual-listing-photos-guess-whats-amiss-edition-original-czech-sky\/\" title=\"Real Actual Listing Photos: Guess What\u2019s Amiss Edition (The Original Czech Sky Post)\">read this post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/tim-e-u552876\/what-does-it-mean!-c238\" title=\"What does it mean?!?\">What does it mean?!?<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA\" title=\"Double Rainbow Song\">Double rainbow all the way<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/tim-e-u552876\/sweet-ride-c188\" title=\"Sweet Ride\">Sweet Ride<\/a>: A wide variety of vehicles featured in listing photos.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/tim-e-u552876\/lonely-pianos-c304\" title=\"Lonely Pianos\">Lonely Pianos<\/a>: Not just <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/real-actual-listing-photos-the-lonely-pianos\/\" title=\"Real Actual Listing Photos: The Lonely Pianos\">a Seattle phenomenon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/tim-e-u552876\/mega-mountain-c374\" title=\"Mega Mountain\">Mega Mountain<\/a>: Okay this one is mostly just <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/real-actual-listing-photos-mega-mountain-edition\/\" title=\"Real Actual Listing Photos: Mega Mountain Edition\">a thing in the Seattle area<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/tim-e-u552876\/rawr-c195\" title=\"Rawr\">Rawr<\/a>: Lions, lions, and&#8230; more lions. Oh my.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The feature is still in &#8220;beta,&#8221; so there are a few minor kinks being worked out, but already it&#8217;s the most beautiful and most addictive feature I&#8217;ve used on a real estate search site.  No one at work requested or even implied that I should write this post, and I didn&#8217;t run it past anyone for approval, I&#8217;m just a Collections addict.  If you try it out you might become one too.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/collections\/tim-e-u552876\" title=\"Tim's Redfin Collections\">browse all of my collections here<\/a>, and if you have a free Redfin account you can start making your own (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.redfin.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/a_beautiful_find.html\" title=\"A Beautiful Find\">step-by-step directions here<\/a>).  I&#8217;d love to see what kinds of collections my readers come up with, so if you try out the feature, share your profile link in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>This concludes this test of the Shameless Plug Broadcast System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Redfin (my employer) just launched a fun new feature today: Redfin Collections. With Collections you can curate publicly-visible galleries of listing photos from nearly all of Redfin&#8217;s markets across the country. 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