What is Craigslist?

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Craigslist.org, originally a San Francisco community electronic newsletter, is now one of the most visited English language Web sites, with local classifieds for more than 450 cities worldwide.

The site's main function is to host classified ads that cover practically every category you can think of, including housing, job postings, items for sale, services and personals.

There's also a forums section that allows users to discuss topics on everything from gardening to the Linux operating system.

Craigslist users act like the site's watchdogs by monitoring the content that gets posted. Users flag posts to draw attention to those that are particularly interesting and those that detract from the site.

The tags that can be applied to posts are best of craigslist (a funny or effective post), miscategorized (a post placed in the wrong section of the site), spam/overpost (a generic post or one that has been posted multiple times) and prohibited (a post that directly violates the site's terms of use).

The only thing you need to become a member is a valid e-mail address. The signup process is short and painless -- after entering your e-mail and filling...........

A verification word (which helps prevent programs called bots from creating accounts to post ads automatically), you'll receive an e-mail that includes a link you'll need to click on to verify your account and log in.

I heard Craigslist's revenue/employee is around $4mm and have read that revenues for 2010 is estimated to be $122mm. If those numbers are correct, Craigslist has around 40 employees.

The site was founded by a man named craig newmark in 1995 who originally started this as a way for he and his friends and families to contact,post ideas and invitations to events and things they liked to do.

It grew from there to what you see today.There have been minimal if any changes at all to the site since the site became almost an overnite hit.

Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese became the first non-English languages Craigslist supported.

Some Craigslist sites cover large regions instead of individual metropolitan areas—for example, the U.S. states of Delaware and Wyoming, the Colorado Western Slope, the California Gold Country, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the locations with their own Craigslist sites.

Having observed people helping one another in friendly, social, and trusting communal ways on the Internet via the WELL, MindVox and Usenet, and feeling isolated as a relative newcomer to San Francisco, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark decided to create something similar for local events.

The initial technology encountered some limits, so by June 1995 Majordomo had been installed and the mailing list "Craigslist" resumed operations.

Community members started asking for a web interface. Newmark registered "craigslist.org", and the website went live in 1996.

In the fall of 1998, the name "List Foundation" was introduced and Craigslist started transitioning to the use of this name.

Craigslist incorporated as a private for-profit company in 1999.[8] Around the time of these events, Newmark realized the site was growing so fast that he could stop working as a software engineer and devote his full attention to running Craigslist. By April 2000, there were nine employees working out of Newmark's San Francisco apartment.

CraigsList started out as a way for Craig --a recently minted dot com millionaire to "give back". He decided to do this by starting a classified ads site with FREE ads. That got people's attention because everyone in classified sites was out to make a buck first with the tired newspaper model of --pay for an ad, get eyeballs. No one was standing out from the crowd.

Craigslist is an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, resumes, and discussion forums.

Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list to friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It became a web-based service in 1996 and expanded into other classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. cities in 2000, and now covers 70 countries.

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Buckmaster contributed the site's multi-city architecture, search engine, discussion forums, flagging system, self-posting process, homepage design, personals categories, and best-of-Craigslist feature.