Tag: CLASSIFIEDS

Finding a particular item you want on Craigslist can be a matter of actively checking back every day to see if somebody has listed one in your area, but for the lazy amongst us, there might be a better way. Check out Heycraig!, a site that watches Craigslist for you, and sends you an email alert when a new post matches your search terms. It's city-specific, and kind of tricky to fine-tune, but if ...

If you're shaking your moneymaker (quite literally) via Craigslist, you've only got 7 more days before your advertisements meet with closer scrutiny. In -- yet another -- agreement with a state Attorney General (this time, Connecticut) Craigslist will remove the Erotic Services category. Replacing "Erotic" will be a services section simply called "Adult". Craigslist says they'll employ staff to ...

Want to hire movers, a photographer, or a DJ? You could post an ad on Craigslist, but you never really know if you're going to get reliable service or some guy who shows up at your door with a baseball bat asking for your money and jewelry. Workstir is a new classified ad site that aims to make the process of hiring help online a bit easier. Users can create detailed profiles that give you a ...

Say on your last vacation you traveled abroad and found a candy, coffee creamer, or consumer electronic device that just wasn't available in your home. Sure, you could buy a plane ticket and fly halfway across the world to pick up some more chocolates. But even if they were really good chocolates, it's probably not worth it (unless you buy in bulk). Bringsome is sort of like an international ...

If you want to sell a used computer, eBay's great. But if you're looking to unload a mattress, car, or dining table, not so much. One of the great things about eBay is that you can buy items from anyone in the world, which helps keep the prices low. But once you add shipping, heavy items are kind of a hassle. Sure, you could look for items available for pickup, but most people have just migrated ...

Craigslist is the number one online classified location, after all, they pioneered it. Now there's a new kid on the block, and its owned by eBay. Craigslist, founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark, now serves over 5 billion page view per month, giving it a 34th place rank among worldwide web sites. However, eBay has been operating a similar service called Kijiji in Europe for over two years with some ...

Somebody might want to mention to Real People Real Stuff that their name is a bit long to type into a web browser. But the site's an interesting attempt at blending YouTube and Craigslist. The premise is simple enough. Post a video add for pretty much anything you're trying to sell, whether it be goods, services, or just a concept. That said, some items work better than others as a video ad. For ...

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 ...

Yesterday Craigslist blocked listpic, a website that lets you browse classifieds on Craigslist through a graphical interface. In other words, you could browse by photos instead of text-based links -- a feature we've since learned Craiglist may be adding to its own site (read below). digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Craigslist_rolling_out_photos_with_listings_Q_A_with_CEO_re_Listpic_ban'; ...

If you notice a sudden drop in used textbook listings on Amazon or couches with 'minor beer stains' from Craigslist and your local newspaper, you can likely thank Facebook's introduction of the Marketplace. PC Magazine has the scoop on this new social network-infused classifieds ad system, which is free of charge and should be available to all users by the end of this week after a gradual ...

All the Google hype this week is getting downright dizzying, so let's try to consolidate a few of these things. Robert X. Cringely is vehement that Google is about to revolutionize TV advertising. "Google is going to let the telco and cable companies burn their capital building out IP-TV," says Cringely," knowing that Google will still be the only game in town for the crux of the ...