Please be sure to vote for Burbed today! Last few days!
UPDATE 8/22: Last few days! It’s the final stretch! If you haven’t voted already, keep voting! Thanks!
UPDATE 8/18: Whoa… Burbed is now behind at a 35.9, while the leader is at 36.1%. If you haven’t voted already, please vote. Try a different browser if you’re having trouble.
[This is a Sticky Post] Thanks to the folks who nominated this site! Be sure to vote!
Zillow People’s Choice Best Real Estate Blog Award Guidelines – August 11 to August 25
Contest period: Voting opens at 12:01 a.m. (all times Pacific Time) on August 11, 2010, and closes at 11:59 a.m. on August 25, 2010.
Who can vote: Everyone is eligible to vote. One vote per person per 24-hour period.
August 13th, 2010 at 9:06 am
Gonna be tough to beat socketsite.com–which is a terrific blog–but snark beats serious every time, so you have my vote.
August 13th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Burbed is in the lead!
August 13th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Cool – you’ve got my vote. I took a quick peek at the ones currently in 2nd & 3rd place and they look boring!
August 13th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Vote once every day (24-hour period)!
“Contest period: Voting opens at 12:01 a.m. (all times Pacific Time) on August 11, 2010, and closes at 11:59 a.m. on August 25, 2010.
Who can vote: Everyone is eligible to vote. One vote per person per 24-hour period.
Prize: One winner from each designated city will receive: (i) a year-long link to the winning blog from Zillow’s local overview page for the city where the blog is based; and (ii) a “best real estate blog” badge graphic to place on their winning blog.”
August 13th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
If burbed wins, then I guess he has to keep this thing going for another year. Is that like getting a white elephant?
August 13th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Second Prize: Two-year long link and two badge graphics.
August 14th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Burbed is still ahead! Vote early and often!
Thank you, we have already counted your vote.
socketsite.com/ 6.5%
sf.curbed.com/ 6.5%
dailypundit.com/sfrealblog/ 0%
lubasf.com/blog/ 22.6%
sfhomeblog.com/ 3.2%
thefrontsteps.com/ 5.4%
sfhotlist.com/ 14%
burbed.com/ 40.9%
sfrealestateblog.com/ 0%
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ontheblock/index 1.1%
sfresidence.com/blog/ 0%
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What the hell is lubasf.com? At least I’ve heard of most of these other pretenders.
August 14th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Alain de Botton has some great stuff on status anxiety–also a TED talk that stands out. *golf clap*
August 14th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Got my vote.
August 16th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Voted twice, will vote again tomorrow. Let’s make Burbed #1!
August 16th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
burbed down to 37%.
At this rate, I’m going to have to reduce my offer for this web site to $40.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Dudes, dudettes and all other readers, burbed is losing ground to the “luba” site. That so-called blog hasn’t even had a new post for six freakin’ weeks. (Not to mention it’s run by a Realtor (TM). Ugh.) We can’t lose to that! C’mon, be a sport and vote for burbed again. Then again on your iPhone or Droid, and again on your computer at home…
August 17th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
35% for burbed, 32% for lubasf… The realtor connection shows its strength.
August 17th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
I can’t believe you numbnuts are allowing some dumbass realtor’s website to catch up to us. Freaking communists!
August 17th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
There’s no realtor connection. She’s obviously spoofing the system by deleting cookies or something. Why would anyone want to see a realtor’s site beat all those others that actually serve a useful purpose?
August 17th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
No realtor connection?
L u b a . M u z i c h e n k o
REALTOR®
Zephyr Real Estate
DRE License #01768716
(Didn’t want a search to lead here. Do the spaces help? I’m computer illiterate in that regard.)
The page headline says it’s written by a “local SF” realtard.
August 17th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
wow, I am a web moron. It took me three tries to find out that clicking on the sticky box (a new term for me!) only brought up the voting options if I waited patiently. I was wondering why I kept just getting an irrelevant Zillow site.
Burbed, you got my vote. and you’ll keep getting my vote. and I grew a new neuron, today.
August 17th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
lol, Tuno. That page does take FOREVER to load sometimes. I gave up on my phone. The MacBook took awhile on the first try. The other two…
August 18th, 2010 at 3:21 am
I can’t vote on either of my phones. Must be flash or something.
#16 I didn’t explain myself well. When I said “there’s no realtor connection” I meant there is no reason why other realtors would vote for this one. It’s not a particularly compelling site, especially when you see what it’s up against. I’d much rather something like SocketSite or Front Steps won over a realtard.
Given how fast the numbers have shot up in the last couple of days, she’s sure getting a lot of VOTES but I doubt she has a lot of PEOPLE doing them.
August 18th, 2010 at 8:46 am
#19, I think you’re right. Lots of votes and she doesn’t even have a note about the poll posted on her waste of a site.
Burbed is losing as of this morning, 37 to 34%.
August 18th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Never, ever question the insanity behind the motives of some REALTORs.
Certainly I see no reason that blog would get votes. There are other blogs that I could see getting a good number of votes, but not that one.
Who knows what’s going on, but maybe it’s another “Look at me, I’m a big REALTOR; my blog was voted “BEST BLOG.”
My guess is the votes are not about the quality of the blog.
August 18th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
“Thank you for voting!
lubasf.com/blog/ 34.6%
burbed.com/ 37.9%”
Also make sure it says, “Thank you for voting!” on top. If you don’t wait the full 24 hours, it’ll say “Thank you, we have already counted your vote.”
August 18th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
lubasf.org doesn’t have a plug to vote for her on her blog, but she does have one on her facebook page.
Come on people, her blog is lame compared to burbed.com
Vote early, vote often.
August 18th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Vote burbed, a vote for freedom, and double rainbows, and coffee
August 18th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
That other web site must have a bunch of maggots doing her bidding.
August 18th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Something isn’t right about her posting on her FB page asking people to vote for her blog “Even though the real estate blog is on hiatus, it’s still been nominated as one of San Francisco’s best! Go on over and VOTE!!!!!”
How tacky. Anyone want to guess who nominated her site?
We cannot let this happen! Vote vote vote, get your family and friends to vote, make sure your co-workers vote, tell them about this wonderful site and tell them it’s for a good cause: preventing a self-promoting Realtard from gaming an award she clearly doesn’t deserve.
Nothing personal, Luba.
I just don’t like your blog. I have this thing about fresh content.
August 18th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
madhaus, if you have more than one browser on your computer you could vote again today…
August 18th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
This realtard is pissing me off. Typical realtard trying to game the system. Just for that, I’m going to use every computer I can get my hands on at work tomorrow and vote for burbed.
Take that, bizatch!
August 18th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
#27, I got three browsers on this computer alone.
I think my husband and kids need to start voting too, and maybe they each will have a few new browsers installed. Plus I got some old computers in the garage.
Has anyone tried voting from another account on a Windows machine? Might be worth a try to see how many accounts for each of your guppies you can set up.
Not that I would ever suggest gaming a stupid internet poll like that realtard would!
August 18th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
I thought I had three also but Chrome is fubared and I’m not inclined to re-download it. I do have a MacBook at my feet though.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Just delete and disable cookies.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Too easy. Don’t want to.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
I removed some cookies but I guess they are hiding some. I really don’t want to blow away ALL of them.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Just start Firefox on the command line with “firefox -ProfileManager”, create a new profile and disable cookies. Your other profile will be left untouched.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Or just go to Tools, Options, Privacy Tab, Show Cookies and delete the one under Zillow named “PD_poll_3562436″
Just one. But that would be cheating and the caliber of the regulars on here wouldn’t do such a thing! Really people, we can win on our own.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Removing the cookies won’t help.
I only have 20 computers at work I can use
August 19th, 2010 at 12:38 am
we’re currently ahead by 10.0%.
when i voted it increased from 31.8% to 42.0%.
so 1 vote is roughly equal to 0.2%.
that means we’re up by about 50 votes (and there have been about 500 votes total).
August 19th, 2010 at 12:44 am
Just run your browser in private mode, and another vote is Noooooooooo Problem.
August 19th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Burbed is up to 45.4%!
August 19th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Burbed is at 50%!
August 19th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
55%!
August 19th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
60%!
August 19th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
I recruited people to vote
August 19th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Listen to madhaus. Open up a bottle of wine, put on some music and keep Burbed ahead. It’s noooo problem.
August 19th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Burbed has the best readers!
August 19th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
I’m going to bed and I expect 70% in the morning. All you night owls take over.
August 19th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
I just went to Palo Alto library today and voted many time using their free internet connection.
August 19th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Up to 64% with a week to go in the voting. You guys are doing better than an agent in the days of 7% full commissions–of course, those days are still here in the RBA!
Just six days to go.
August 19th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
>>I just went to Palo Alto library today and voted many time using their free internet connection.
Then went to Open House to use free toilet paper.
August 20th, 2010 at 12:31 am
What ply was the toilet paper? I hear on the wrong side of Middlefield they either put out 1-ply or lock the bathroom rolls in the gun safe.
August 20th, 2010 at 12:34 am
Awww, poor widdle Wuba. She’s dropped below 20%. Time to call all the soccer moms and ask them to vote for burbed and against the pretentious realtard who can’t even be bothered to update her blog.
August 20th, 2010 at 8:38 am
My old place was featured on Burbed, and it actually SOLD! Thanks, you POS! You’ve got my vote.
August 20th, 2010 at 9:51 am
#52, what place was that?????
August 20th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
#52, anything can sell.. for the right price.
August 21st, 2010 at 12:06 am
> My old place was featured on Burbed, and it actually SOLD! Thanks, you POS! You’ve got my vote.
is POS referring to the house you sold?
August 22nd, 2010 at 10:28 pm
burbed is at 65.9% with our ex-competitor at 15.9%
August 22nd, 2010 at 10:31 pm
We were at 67.0% this morning. Some other blog got a lot of votes recently.
August 24th, 2010 at 10:43 am
~25 hours left.
August 24th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
69.2%
If Burbed doesn’t get to 88.8%, I think it might be an unlucky result.
August 24th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
69 of anything is never unlucky. Go ask Alex.
August 24th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
If the spam checker hadn’t messed me up, I would have beat you to that observation, madhaus. It’s at 69% even right now.
August 24th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Still 69% now… An hours-long 69 may not be unlucky but it can be quite uncomfortable.
August 24th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Let’s keep this conversation in the gutter for seven more posts.
August 24th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Only a few hours left before the contest ends. Let’s slowly build the momentum before a final thrust in a little more than 12 hours.
And we will be masters of our domain.
August 25th, 2010 at 6:58 am
Five hours to go:
“socketsite.com/ 2%
sf.curbed.com/ 1%
dailypundit.com/sfrealblog/ 0%
lubasf.com/blog/ 14%
sfhomeblog.com/ <1%
thefrontsteps.com/ 2%
sfhotlist.com/ 2%
burbed.com/ 70%
sfrealestateblog.com/ <1%
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ontheblock/index <1%
sfresidence.com/blog/ 0%
insidesfre.com/ 9%"
August 25th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
“Which San Francisco Real Estate Blog is the best? ( Poll Closed )
socketsite.com/ 1.83%
sf.curbed.com/ 0.83%
dailypundit.com/sfrealblog/ 0%
lubasf.com/blog/ 13.13%
sfhomeblog.com/ 0.25%
thefrontsteps.com/ 2.33%
sfhotlist.com/ 2.41%
burbed.com/ 70.32%
sfrealestateblog.com/ 0.33%
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ontheblock/index 0.08%
sfresidence.com/blog/ 0%
insidesfre.com/ 8.48%”
August 25th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Congratulations! All hail the Emperor!
August 25th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
I like 68 better. You do me and I’ll owe you one.
Congrats to burbed, Best Real Estate Blog in San Francisco!
August 25th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Suck it up, burbed. You’re stuck with us for another year!
August 25th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Comment #69 says “Suck it up” – How apropos!
August 25th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
I stuck my tongue out too.
August 25th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Did you hear that? He slipped in a tongue. That’s pretty forward for Ponytail Dude.