For those of you not familiar with Website ActiveRain, it is a free online community for real estate professionals designed to help them promote and grow their business. Primarily, it is a blogging site that provides provides free blogging tools to the niche real estate market. Their main audience is Realtors, though they also have several blogs written by lenders, notaries, home inspectors, appraisers, and title companies. The site launched in June 2006 and has become immensely popular in the real estate community. Currently, the site lists nearly 51,000 members.
I have read some of the blogs on ActiveRain and have found them to be very good. You can tell just how popular some of the bloggers are by the number of comments their posts receive - in a matter of a couple of days, some have 40, 50, or more comments.
Recently, I became aware of a lawsuit filed by ActiveRain against Move, Inc. Move owns and operates Websites including Realtor.com, the official site of the National Association of Realtors, Move.com (formerly Homestore.com), HomeBuilder.com, and SeniorHouseingNet. The complaint is for violation of the California Trade Secrets Act, breach of contract, unjust enrichment, promissory/equitable estoppel, unfair competition, Washington Unfair Business Practices Act, and fraud/deceit.
Read ActiveRain's Complaint and Move's Answer.