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craigslist cracking down on scams in more cities

Friday, September 19, 2008

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By Vanessa Dennis - Online marketplace Craigslist will begin charging $25 to post jobs in more cities in an attempt to curb the amount of scams on the jobs portion of their site.

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craig still shrugging off competition

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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By Vanessa Dennis - Craig Newmark, founder of online classifieds site craigslist, has always been emphatic about keeping their trademark interface user-friendly. In an interview last January from SearchEngineWatch, Craig was asked about any future Web 2.0 plans. He said, "We're more like Web 0.1. We make incremental improvements, but we've gotta stay simple, usable, and fast." One has to wonder, though, why the most trafficked classifieds site has yet to develop an application for social networking sites Facebook or myspace. But considering their aversion to change, I wasn't surprised to hear Craig's response to my question.

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craig newmark on the early days of craigslist

Saturday, May 17, 2008

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Craigslist founder Craig Newmark was in Cleveland today (he’s a graduate of CWRU) speaking at a local tech event. Here’s some footage of him talking about the early days of the company (sorry ’bout the audio). Click here for more on Craigslist.

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craig on economy, craigslist spam and his ugly site

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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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.

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