Archive for the ‘Craigslist’ Category
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Craigslist may limit the amount of html they allow because of excessive abuse from scammers and spammers.
Here is what Craigslist has written on their site:
We're contemplating limiting HTML in classified ads to a specific list of tags.
Unfortunately, much of the HTML in postings these days is used by spammers for ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
OLX, a distribution partner of Rent Marketer, has recently announced they have raised $13.5 million in series B funding from General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund, and DN Capital.
TechCrunch says according to co-founder Fabrice Grinda, that “OLX is probably the largest classified site no one has ever heard of.”
Think ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Craigslist now has a company blog. Looks like many of the posts all coming from Jim their CEO.
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Within the rental industry, we have been seeing an increase in scammers trying to take advantage of renters looking for a rental property.
Here is how the scam works.
The scammer, usually from Nigeria, the UK or outside of the US, copies a residential rental ad from Craigslist and reposts it to ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Kijiji, the classifieds site owned by eBay is on a growth path destined to surpass Craigslist within 5 years. eBay has 25% ownership in Craigslist and finally realized they will never see a dime of that so decided to go head to head and launch Kijiji.
My prediction is that within ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Craigslist donated $1.6 million to UC Berkeley and will support research, symposia and lectures.
Jim Buckmaster became the company's CEO in 2000 and has led craigslist to become the eighth largest Internet company in the world in terms of English-language page views, and the most used classifieds service worldwide in any ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I wanted to follow up on my previous Edgeio post. They have a wiki, that goes into detail on how their company was doing. I have summarized below:
Active number of listings = 14,000,000
Active number of advertisers = 8,500
Total number of Classified boards = 1,700
Network Page Views per month = ~ ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Edgeio, the classifieds site that raised $1.5 million in angel funding and another $5 million in Series A funding has decided, after 15 months of burning cash to close their doors.
First to pick this up was TechCrunch, where Michael Arrington, an editor at TechCrunch and co-founder of Edgeio announced the ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
I recently watched a video on Craig Newmark, the founder of the popular classifieds site craigslist.com. He said they currently do 5 Billion Page views per month and are expected to do 6 billion page views next month. This got me thinking, if I were to monetize the pages of ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Stephen J. Dubner of Freakonimc blog had a great Q and A with Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster of craigslist.com.
Q: What do you think of the challenges to Craigslist posed by Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites that have the ability to implement similar free classifieds (such as Facebook’s ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I accidentally went to craiglist.com and got a shock of my life. It is a sex site hoping users do what I did and misspell craigslist.com and go see some tatas. I recommend not going there by accident unless of course you like that kind of stuff.
I do have to ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
In my opinion the Chicago nonprofit will not win and if they do it means consumers will lose.
From Inman:
A Chicago nonprofit is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider whether Craigslist is immune from charges that the online classified service violates the Fair Housing Act by allowing users to post ...
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