Craigslist
Craigslist is the classifieds section of the newspaper come to life in the digital realm. It is filled with individuals seeking to partake in over 100 different topical forums available, sell something they no longer need, or give it away for free, get a job or find someone to hire to get a job done, find romance, or a walking partner, anything and everything is possible, that is within legal boundaries. The site is moderated by the community and largely free to post any type of ad with the exception of companies looking to post job openings seeking employees.
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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 the trailer here. The movie will be out August 2nd
There is also a 24 hour documentary that has been made and can be watched on youtube [1]
References
1. http://www.craigslist.org/about/factsheet 2. http://dynamicmarketingpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/e0867_craigslist-logo.png 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist
