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how do you say $250 mil in swahili?
By Vanessa Dennis - It doesn't matter if you're Chinese, German, American, or French: mention the word "free," especially when its linked to something online, and the crowds will flock. This has especially been the case with eBay's international classifieds group Kijiji, which means "village" in Swahili. Spokesman Hani Durzy said that Kijiji was launched by eBay's New Ventures Group to bring a sense of community that is lacking in other local classified sites. That "sense of community" has been sweeping the free classifieds market in over 1000 cities and 26 countries since its launch in 2005. So how does a free classifieds site report $250 million in revenues in a single quarter?
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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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