Tag: CRAIGSLIST

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 ...

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 ...

For the past few months, you could use a 3rd party website to browse Craigslist by looking at pictures rather than text-based titles. In a lot of ways, Listpic made perusing classified ads far more useful. In fact, some users say they started spending far more time looking at Craigslist ads once they discovered Listpic. That's why many users are complaining about Craigslist's decision to block ...

While Craigslist founder Craig Newmark insists that online classified ads are not solely to blame for the decline in newspaper revenue, more and more online marketplaces are popping up. And they're partnering with sites like Facebook and Friendster, not just news sites. Friendster's new service launched today, and it's a partnership with OLX. In fact, basically what you get if you click the ...

Ryan Sit has put together a nifty website that lets you browse Craigslist classifieds through photos. You select your city and search terms, and rather than a list of text links, Listpic presents you with a group of images. Clicking on an image brings up a small window containing most of the information from the original listing, but with just one image. If you click permalink button you'll see ...

One of the keys to selling online is a nice, effective, clean ad. If an ad is laid out nicely with all of the appropriate information, possible buyers are more likely to read it, and consider your product or service. If nothing catches the buyers eye right away, it gets tossed. vFlyer is an online ad transformation and creation tool. They help users collect the proper information needed in order ...

Craig Newmark, or Mr. Craigslist himself is not interested in selling his social-networking site, even though another social-networking site, MySpace was just valued at a possible $15 billion in the next few years. Craig is apparently content and just fine with the already-comfortable life he has. In the cut-throat world of buying and selling off web companies, Craig's outlook is uniquely ...

Microsoft is taking a whack at Craigslist, and to a lesser extent Google Base, with Windows Live Expo, which it describes as "an online marketplace and social networking site." It's in private beta right now, but touts some interesting features like like the ability to restrict your listings to your personal network, integration with MSN Spaces, and "detailed maps and directions for ...