Listpic is back, and powered by Oodle
You just can't keep a good website down, no matter how hard you try. Less than a week after Craigslist essentially shut down Listpic by preventing the site from scraping classified ads, Listpic is back up and running.Whereas Listpic has previously provided a graphical browsing experience to the largely text-based Craigslist, Listpic is now powered by Oodle. Unlike Craigslist, Oodle does show pictures next to listings, but there's something extraordinarily useful about being able to browse classifieds by photos alone.
And most importantly, Oodle has an open API, and Listpic founder Ryan Sit got permission from Oodle before re-launching his site. Which is good news, because in our interview with Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster last week, he kind of subtly hinted that there's no way in hell that Craigslist was going to let Listpic start scraping Craigslist ads again.
The new Listpic looks pretty much identical to the old listpic. The only changes are under the hood.
[via WebWare]
