Trulia (real estate site) acquires Movity (real estate data aggregator, visualizer)

Trulia most folks have likely heard of; the company wants to making finding a residence easier with data and maps: Movity aggregates the geodata from a variety of sources and uses it to provide rich insights into any location. Movity is still in beta and does sort of the same thing, with a focus on more kinds of data (“geo-data, local comments, conversations, safety
stats, demographics, noise”) but also with a focus on maps and visualization. One of the folks is from cartography/design superstar Stamen Designs and the company is probably best know for WeePlaces.com, which I’ve mentioned before (1,2). It’s business model: advertising.

With the acquisition Trulia is moving to downtown San Francisco (so the staff can go to all those LBS conferences, no doubt!)

- Trulia Blog (Exactly no comments to the post as of 7:30 am EST, though this was announced yesterday. I’m not sure if folks don’t care, don’t understand or are busy with the holidays…)
- SF Business Times