A law diploma from a disgruntled San Francisco lawyer is being sold on Craiglist for $59,250. The lawyer claims to have paid more than $100,000 for the diploma through their education at an "elitist" school.
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Craigslist Inc. executives reneged on a deal to guarantee EBay Inc. a board seat for its investment in the online-advertising company and planned to portray themselves as victims of the Internet auctioneer, EBay’s lawyers argued in court papers.
It's hard to come up with an adjective to describe Craigslist's decision to sue Red Trumpet other than "dumb." Nothing good will come of this lawsuit for a variety of reasons, and Craigslist is asking for trouble in filing it.
At the intersection of old media and social media, there's an emerging need to be more judicious in both the coverage and placement of news on both sides of the street, said Craigslist's founder Craig Newmark at Digital Media Conference West.
Newmark, the unassuming media mogul whose site is among the most widely-visited on the Internet, discussed media's evolution, social media, and his own classifieds destination during a fireside chat-style keynote with Richard Hart, founder of The Next Step.
Kijiji, a free classified ads site attempting to rival Craigslist, is taking a cheap shot at Craigslist by publicizing the results of a one-sided survey.
According to the survey, which was commissioned by eBay, “Three in four U.S. adults (75%) said they prefer to buy or sell items from a Web site that does not host erotic ads or adult services, and more than half (53%) of consumers said they would prefer that a family member use a site without such listings.”
eBay acquired a 28 percent share of the Craigslist online classified site in 2004, and then proceeded to launch its own competing classifieds site Kijiji in 2005. It has been less than a "marriage made in heaven," with things coming to a head when eBay launched Kijiji in the U.S. in 2007. The two parties have sued each other and accusations have gotten rather nasty.
Craigslist is growing. The online classifieds site has added 140 new cities to its roster, bulking up its coverage by 25 percent, per the NYT. New U.S. locations include small and midsize cities and counties like Oneonta, N.Y.; Craigslist also added over 50 international cities, including Shenzen, China (with a population of 14 million) and Lucknow, India (population 2.5 million).
We linguists readily employ a maxim whenever someone asks what verb could be used when at loss for words: “When in doubt, use ‘get’”. By way of analogy, we could say “When you are looking for services or items on the World Wide Web, use ‘Craigslist’”. Within months of its inception, the classifieds service had already become a mainstay on the web, and it is likely to remain that way for some time to come. It makes perfect sense that engines for searching all of it at the very same time will crop up.
ComScore has released its top 50 U.S. Web site properties for June 2009. Of particular interest: job site CareerBuilder was number 39 with 21.7 million unique visitors for the month. Craigslist was the top classifieds site in 16th position with 46 million uniques.
To most of its 50 million users, it is the world's largest car boot sale, where a little rummage turns up anything from a model of the F-111 Aardvark bomber to a Legend of Zorro DVD and a million items in between. It is a place to find a house, a car, a new job, or even love.
Craigslist has become the standard for community classifieds; it’s more efficient reaching a local audience than any other local advertising media, and it’s free.
SAN FRANCISCO — As the newspaper industry and its classified advertising business wither, one company appears to be doing extraordinarily well: Craigslist.
The Internet classified ads company, which promotes its “relatively noncommercial nature” and “service mission” on its site, is projected to bring in more than $100 million in revenue this year, according to a new study from Classified Intelligence Report, a publication of AIM Group, a media and Web consultant firm in Orlando, Fla.
The main event at the private executives' meeting a week ago in Chicago was discussion of paid online content, and the American Press Institute contributed a white paper strongly endorsing several versions of that strategy. API also offered a second recommendation and a second white paper, arguing that the industry should mobilize "to prevent further revenue erosion" of classifieds.
A tiny Twin Cities startup is betting it can attract users to its online classifieds without the come-hither ads that have landed its giant competitor Craigslist in hot water lately. Tikiwade, which launched in March, doesn't take sexually oriented or personal ads.
It's tough to compete with free. The use of online classifieds sites, such as Craigslist, has more than doubled in the past four years, according to a study published Friday by the Pew Research Center. At the same time that Web classifies are on the rise, the classifieds business that newspapers once depended on has collapsed, the Pew Internet & America Life Project found.
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