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Craigslist, Wikipedia founders grapple with big issues
News At least 1,000 people packed the room for the South by Southwest Interactive keynote conversation in Austin, Texas on Monday between Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. [14 Mar 2006]
Craig Newmark
AS Profile Few on the internet start out grassroots and stay there for long but Craigslist is one glaring exception. Started in San Francisco by Craig Newmark as a community mailing list among friends in 1995,... [25 Sep 2006]
eBay pays $415m for Rent.com
News In August, the company acquired a 25 per cent stake in Craigslist, an online listing of classified ads and forums. eBay announced late on Thursday that it had agreed to acquire the apartment rental service Rent.com for... [17 Dec 2004]
eBay beefs up classifieds with UK and Spanish sites
News Clive Gringras, head of ecommerce at Olswang, the law firm that assisted eBay in the Gumtree acquisition, said: "Gumtree, like Craigslist and Marketplaats, operates in a fascinating new sector for eBay. [19 May 2005]
Subservientchicken.com - corporate promotions mean clicks in US
News Craigslist.org, a grassroots community and classified site, garnered mainstream attention. Started by one man, Craig Newmark, in San Francisco in 1995, Craigslist now offers location-specific sites for... [20 May 2004]
Google Base: Touch it
News While some observers have speculated Google is targeting the online classifieds market space with the service - specifically Craigslist and eBay - a Google executive denied that is the company's intent. [16 Nov 2005]
Photos: The top tech Twitterers
Photo Dot-com founders Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, and Pierre Omidyar founder/chairman of eBay are also Twitter users. Microblogging app Twitter is no longer merely the preserve of web 2.0 geeks. It's been... [23 Mar 2009]
Is Google aiming to squeeze eBay?
News A reader identified as "Lone Deranger", who posted to a Dutch blog called Seweso, predicted Google Base would be a "death knell" for both eBay and Microsoft: "There is much more to this than an "ebay/craigslist" killer. [26 Oct 2005]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News Also on the cybercrime panel was San Jose police sergeant Edward Schroder, who talked about how he spends his time investigating fraud related to sites like eBay and Craigslist, Nigerian or lottery scams, and money mule... [13 Jul 2009]
Bill Maguire
AS Profile Since joining the airline at the beginning of 2006 through an advert on online classifieds service Craigslist, Maguire has built a green-field IT infrastructure on a relatively modest budget with an in-house tech team of... [12 Oct 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Mash-ups
Cheat Sheet The service will take ads placed on US uber-listings site Craigslist and will mash them up with Google Maps to make the listings searchable on a map at the click of a button. Mash-ups? If this has anything to do with old... [26 May 2006]
LinkedIn to charge for job listings
News Craigslist, which eschews both advertising and other fees, relies substantially on such recruiting charges. Social networking site LinkedIn will soon begin charging employers $95 per job listing, nudging social... [01 Mar 2005]
New order in New Orleans
Comment Craigslist.org's lost and found forum for New Orleans was adopted to find missing people, a "Katrina Help" wiki had launched, and other ad hoc forums emerged. As disaster unfolded in New Orleans, the authorities were... [06 Sep 2005]
Get your Facebook vanity URL this weekend
News There's something significant here: not being able to change or transfer your Facebook name means that it's less likely there will be a big market for them on eBay, Craigslist, or elsewhere, something that could easily... [10 Jun 2009]
Microsoft's Ozzie named the top man in tech
News Not just a collection of the usual big names, the top 50 includes several individuals who were chosen for creating innovative websites and user-generated content such as: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (7), YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley... [25 Sep 2006]
