Craigslist
Craigslist is a site for listing classified ads in a variety of categories anything from household items on sale to job listings, services, community events, relationships, romance and gigs as well as a diverse amount of discussion forums to read and openly participate in. The site is moderated by the community and largely free.
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History
The site was created in 1995 by Craig Newmark in San Francisco, who started a local email list, which then grew and became established as a for-profit company in 1999, however the site maintained the use of a .org domain to "symbolize a relatively non-commercial nature, public service mission, and non-corporate culture". The site is run today by Jim Buckmaster who is titled CEO since 2000. While the site gets more than 60 million new classified ads posted each month the company is run by only about 30 staff members out of San Francisco. eBay acquired roughly 25% of craigslist in august 2004.
Countries Available
US, Canada, Europe Asia/Pacific/Middle East, Oceania, Latin America, Africa covering a total of more than 700 local sites in 70 countries. The site supports 13 different languages, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
Reputation
The site gets a lot of traffic and is used by more than 60 million users each month in the United States, but seems to hold a negligible reputation and stigma about itself to many people.
Criticism
Movie
Zach Galifianakis is producing a movie on Craigslist, called "craigslist joe". View trailer at [1] The movie will be out August 2nd
References
1. http://www.craigslist.org/about/factsheet
