In case you missed it, three employment-related sites have made it onto Silicon Alley Insider’s Top 25 most valuable digital start-ups, dubbed SAI 25. Another is close to breaking into the group.
They are:

No. 3 - Craigslist ($5 billion)
No. 8 - LinkedIn ($1.3 billion)
No. 16 - TheLadders ($500 million) (and SAI advertiser)
Knocking on the door […]

Craigslist’s brand new blog takes a few amusing potshots at rival Monster.com in a post entitled, “Monster getting desperate?”
On several occasions over the last month, a large, tacky Monster.com truck has parked in front of our SF office, and proceeded to blast loud music, to the point where our front offices were rendered unfit for […]

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark sounds off to Yahoo! Tech Ticker, saying the economy’s not that bad, spam is a problem on Craigslist and the site (for the most part) is just fine the way it looks.

Hitwise has a great summary of Craiglist’s growing domination of online classifieds. There’s even a chart! And who doesn’t love charts?

Most telling, “Craigslist.org ranked #23 last week based on share of US Internet visits up from #25 a month ago, #29 three months ago and #39 a year ago.” It’s not just for Californians anymore, […]

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The summary: Less Craigslist. More eBay. Particularly if you’re shopping for that new Toro snowblower. Additionally, they’ve dropped the old logo for a more 2.0 look. And hey, who doesn’t like a homepage featuring a cool biker babe?
From a job search perspective, they’ve integrated a nice Ajax interface that will be familiar to […]

I was thinking (sarcastically) the other day, “Ya’ know, there just aren’t enough job sites - or online classified sites for that matter - in the world.” Which is why I was so happy to see that someone on Ning created the ability to set-up Craigslist-style classified sites at the click of a button. […]

It came out recently that Google employs some 10,000 human watchdogs to check search results, catch Webmasters behaving badly, whatever. The ultimate goal, if I were a betting man, is to support their algorithm with flesh-and-blood, to make sure the best results are served. Makes sense.
I’m a bit biased, but they frankly need to put […]