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CU now has a Craig's List |
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by Sandra Ahten
Email: spiritofsandra (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!)
Phone: 217-367-6345 |
17 Jun 2005
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Craig's List is an online community of 5 million people a month who sell, barter, befriend and pontificate. This week Chambana was added as a stop on this particular information highway. |
This is an excerpt from a Sept. 2004 Chicago Tribune article:
San Franciscan Craig Newmark has been running the joint full time since 1999, after four years of running it initially as an e-mail list of grass-roots events in the City by the Bay.
The site has blossomed over the years, as people sold refrigerators, offered concert tickets in exchange for guitar lessons, hunted for apartments, posted and found jobs and met new friends platonic and otherwise.
The idea took root in neighboring communities and has grown to 48 cities in the U.S. (Chicago came aboard in August 2000) and nine overseas, all connected to a bunch of servers overseen by a handful of nerds in San Francisco.
600 hits per second
While Newmark and his group could have scored big by selling the concept -- the site attracts 1 billion page views a month and 600 hits per second during the busy midday hours -- they've held on to the idea that they want to make only enough money to pay the bills and live comfortably. Last month, eBay announced it had acquired a 25 percent interest in craigslist.org, but Newmark approves, describing the history of the transaction this way: One of the original owners was among those with an ostensibly symbolic equity stake of 25 percent, which that person sold to eBay for an undisclosed, though apparently non-symbolic, amount. EBay has promised no meddling, only to offer wisdom it has earned building a community of buyers and sellers. |
See also:
http://chambana.craigslist.org/
http://chambana.craigslist.org/about/
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Re: CU now has a Craig's List |
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17 Jun 2005
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Thanks for the heads up. I usually check in at the Chicago Craigslist from time to time, but it isn't too relevant for me since I live here.... |
