Last summer, Craigslist filed a federal lawsuit against the company Padmapper (and some related entities). Padmapper.com is a site that, among other things, allows users to view Craigslist postings on a geographical map. It is a business premised on providing value added services to Craigslist postings — with some of that added value going back to Craigslist in the form of more users. more…
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We have compiled the Best of the Best sites that accept free classifieds. Here you will find the list of Top US Classifieds websites. These websites provide free classified advertisements for selling and buying items, real estate, jobs, services, personals.
Classified ads is probably the most common source where unemployed people go to, to look for new jobs and to earn income. more…
Craigslist on Wednesday introduced a new Map View feature that displays the location of apartment listings across select cities. As The Next Web reports, the mapping feature is apparently rolling out on a gradual basis, and is currently available for apartment listings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Ann Arbor, MI. more…
After Craigslist sues 3Taps — along with apartment listing app PadMapper — for copyright infringement, the company fights back with accusations of anti-competitive business practices.
A company that lets developers pull Craigslist data off the site is suing the online classifieds site for trying to stop competition in the growing market. more…
Why is it OK that a “not for profit” company with virtually no safety guidelines continues to provide services where people are killed, raped or ripped off on a regular basis? Yet nobody questions this. Why is it OK that people working to provide a respected service are out of work because of this very suspect, free and dangerous service? Is it because it’s free? We need to realize this is not free; there are large costs. Ask the family of Bo! more…
In a welcome course correction, craigslist has removed its short-lived provision that required users to grant it an exclusive license to–in other words granting them ownership of–every post. We were unhappily surprised to see this click-through demand, but are glad to see that craigslist has promptly removed it. more…
Craigslist may be updating its interface in response to competition from fast-growing marketplaces like Fabrice Grinda’s OLX, because it’s hiring a designer to update its mobile offerings, tweak the site and make the whole experience “faster, friendlier and easier.” more…
The Chicago Reader, for decades one of America’s most respected and profitable alternative weeklies, is for sale again, its troubles attributed to dramatic declines in classified ad revenues. The proximate cause: free ads offered by such competing web outlets as Craigslist. “Once [classified revenues] dried up,” commented Charles Whitaker, a professor at Medill journalism school, “there was just no place else for them to turn.” more…
