I think a website like The Campus List is so innovative because they are not simply imitating “Craigslist”. They try to create a new social marketplace that is easy to use, and that ultimately offers students the ability to save money.

@Richard: anonymity is one of the things most people like about the internet, and it’s easy to get used to being “unknown”, insofar as anyone is ever unknown on the interwebs. I think registering being a good thing really depends on how much you use the site – for instance, I wouldn’t register for Craigslist because I don’t use it for work often, but I would register for, say Problogger, because I’m there everyday. Make sense?

@RedSoxManiac: some very salient points, and thanks for the tip about Uloop. I’ll definitely be keeping your reviews in mind when writing my next article. Also – great username!

The tesimonial/description on the front page is way too big, there has to be some navigation in the front to push me to where the content is in any classifieds. Most likely, I was pushed to the site because of some affect of marketing or positive information, so it would be redundant to show me information about the site again.

It also has an atrocious tagging system. Ads, events, nonprofits, and businesses. These are very intertwined, and don’t deserve to be competing categories. What if a non-profit wants to have a tag sale?
Where would this go?

Seeing that it is local, it shouldn’t be a problem since most people will be an inner-circle audience using this, but no way could this go national in its form.

As for the twitter-aggregates, Twitter has problems with spamming and controlling its own content, so to aggregate purely from keywords without filtering, your site could conjure up a lot of trash ( I have done some searches, and seem to be correct ). The bad part is they would need to entice and environment to want to post selling/buying stuff on Twitter more from the current audience.

For collegeclassifieds, its good, but it isn’t Uloop, which I think is a lot better.