The Best Craigslist Analysis by Topix Skrenta
This post by Topix.net co-founder - which I'd love to analyse but dinner on table is best product analysis I've seen of Craigslist. Love it. A quick selection - "To understand how and why something works, study the thing itself, not the maker. Like the Drudge Report, this is a site that looks like it has a simple design, but there's actually a lot going on. The apparently-simplistic layout is like a stealth coating that keeps competitors from paying attention until it's too late. There was another company that used this trick, not so long ago..." (and)"The hardest part of starting a community or usergen site is booting up the activity. Community is a network effect -- posters only come if there are readers, and readers only come if there are posters. So you have to get the chicken and egg stuff going to start up the motor and grow." and I love the Yahoo like layer upon layer reverse Google definition here "Craigslist is the UI polar opposite of Google. If you were to make the click-browse vs search-box extreme that is not-Google it would be Craigslist. Just a home page stuffed with a sea of flat tag links. Craigslist is more Yahoo than Yahoo. It focuses on just what's important, without distractions and legacy constraints and compromises."
posted by redbarren at 7:51 PM
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Thanks Ben! Check this out...Naval Ravikant has posted a followup analysis of what Craigslist could be worth:
Craigslist is Worth More than EBay
The newspaper is no longer the traditional middleman it once was. Not only do news agencies and citizen journalists contact the public directly through their websites and new media offerings, but companies and individuals who used to depend on the newspaper to get their messages out are now empowered by Internet marketing tools to do so themselves.
However, these same online tools can be used by the newspaper to reinvent itself as the new media middleman.
RSS and tagging are two examples of new media that are having huge effects in the world of online news and advertising.
RSS may be beneficial for newspapers in distributing their news and indeed, most major papers already incorporate RSS feeds into their websites. But now, newspaper advertisers, corporate and consumer, can also use RSS to their advantage.
The New York Times has published an article showing how retailers are increasingly integrating RSS into their websites, feeds that customers can personalize so that they stay up to date on the latest products and sales of interest. Thus, loyal clients of their brands will subscribe to the RSS feed from the company's website and not have to look in the Sunday paper circular to find out what deals are in the mall that week.
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craigslist factsheet
Q: What is craigslist? casino on line
A: Local community classifieds and forums - a place to find jobs, housing, goods & services, social activities, a girlfriend or boyfriend, advice, community information, and just about anything else -- all for free, and in a relatively non-commercial environment.
Q: How did craigslist get started?
A: In early 1995, by Craig Newmark, in San Francisco, California. A little more history is here. www.enterbet.com
Q: Is craigslist a nonprofit?
A: No, craigslist was incorporated as a for-profit in 1999.
Q: If it's now a for-profit, why does craigslist still use a .ORG domain? Isn't .ORG restricted to nonprofits?
A: It is a symbol of our service mission and non-corporate culture. Use of .ORG domains is unrestricted.
Q: How much traffic does craigslist get? top casino
A: More than 4 billion page views per month
Q: How does that compare with other english-language sites?
A: craigslist is now #7, trailing only yahoo, aol, microsoft, google, ebay, and news corp videopoker
Q: How many people use craiglist?
A: More than 10 million each month
Q: How many classified ads does craigslist receive?
A: More than 10 million classified ads per month
Q: How many job listings does craigslist receive?
A: More than 500,000 new job listings each month
Q: What about craigslist discussion forums?
A: 40 million user postings in more than 80 topical forums
Q: How many employees does craigslist have, and where are its offices located?
A: 21 of us work out of a victorian house in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco
Q: How does craigslist support its operations?
A: By charging businesses below-market rates for help wanted ads in SF, NYC and LA, and for broker apartment listings in NYC.
Q: Who runs craigslist?
A: Jim Buckmaster has been craigslist's president & CEO since late 2000.
Q: How many craigslist sites are there, when were they launched, and why is craigslist expanding?
A: Sites are added in response to user request. There are now over 300 craigslist sites in all 50 US states, and over 50 countries:
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