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- Could craigslist be unintentionally HELPING prolong the war in Iraq?
- I know it sounds like a stretch that craigslist- where you may have found a lawnmower, a car, an apartment or love- could have anything to do with something as major as the continuance of the Iraq War. Probably is a stretch but do hear me out....
- Tags: Revenue, Financial, Iraq, Buckmaster, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
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- Craigslist fires back at eBay; Bogus Google ads to Kijiji alleged
- Craigslist has filed its response to eBay's lawsuit and the company hits back--hard. Craigslist alleges that eBay participated in everything from "unlawful and unfair competition," false advertising, business interference and even phishing attacks. The official list via Craigslist: "We filed a complaint in California today, charging...
- Tags: Google Inc., Craigslist, Advertisement, eBay Inc., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Will eBay's Craigslist gambit backfire in the court of public opinion?
- Updated: EBay has gone public with the details of its lawsuit against Craigslist and its two shareholders Craig Newmark and James Buckmaster. While suit details alleged self-dealing by Newmark and Buckmaster and a rift over eBay's Kijiji unit, which competes with Craigslist, it's worth pondering the motives--and perceptions--here. ...
- Tags: Craigslist, eBay Inc., Newmark, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- eBay sues craigslist; cites dilution
- EBay said Tuesday that it is suing craigslist, Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster to "safeguard its four-year financial investment." The auction giant bought a 28.4 percent stake in craigslist in 2004, but alleges that in January that Newmark and Buckmaster "adopted measures that, among other things, unfairly...
- Tags: eBay Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Craigslist vs. Facebook? Why Craigslist wins, big time
- In teasing a classifieds “Facebook Marketplace” offering via a CEO Mark Zuckerberg briefing for the New York Times Friday, the Facebook message apparently was “Craigslist, here we come!” But why? In addition to being blind to multi-million dollar buyout offers, Craigslist is blind to market share.Nevertheless, the opening NYT...
- Tags: Craigslist, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-05-13
- Sex trade at Google, not Craigslist
- Does Craigslist REALLY have a “dirty little secret”? NO, but Google may!Compete, a Website which claims “insights powered by over 2 million people,” declares a “scoop,” daring to bare the “virtual red-light district,” aka Craigslist:"It’s no wonder that Craigslist is champion of the online classifieds revolution; Compete reports just under...
- Tags: Google, Amateur Content, Advertising, Self-Promotion, Media, Marketing, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Culture, Craigslist
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- IDC study will reveal the dark matter of search
- Susan Feldman, a senior analyst at IDC, will release on Friday the results of a groundbreaking study that shoots down one of the largest myths in search engine marketing: that the majority of traffic to web sites comes from one of the top ten search engines. By comparing publicly available...
- Tags: Google, Search, Yahoo, International Data Corp., search engine
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Greed, Arrogance, Inexperience, and Stupidity
- Greed, arrogance, inexperience, and stupidity are the essential quartet driving many IT project failures. Bring this set of factors together, and failure is practically inevitable. All too often, vendors and customers angle to get as much as possible out of each other, ignoring the fact that fairness and mutual respect...
- Tags: Vendor relationships, Project failures
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Open source issues for 2007 start with the profit motive
- One of the big issues here in 2007 will continue to be the divide over profit as prime motivation.We are used to this in software. The very term open source is meant to differentiate those who care first about profit from the Free and Open Source FOSS crowd, like Richard...
- Tags: motive, open source, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Craig on craigslist, one more time
- In "Craigslist: Paid classifieds killer, or impetus for more lucrative classifieds business," I put forth that:It is not for Craig Newmark, Jim Buckmaster, or any member of the craigslist community, to worry about “feelings” within the newspaper industry, or about the future of the newspaper industry. Rather, it is the...
- Tags: ecommerce, Self-Promotion, Amateur Content, Social Web, Yellow Pages, CEO Interviews, Craigslist, eBay, User-Generated Content, Culture, Citizen Journalism, Local, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Craigslist debate rages on
- Apparently having Craigslist take advertising to save the world isnt such a hot idea. Of course that hasnt stopped the debate, which has run almost a full week now and flared up again today. See roundup on Techmeme.As posted on Between the Lines Dec. 7 Craiglist CEO Jim Buckmaster wants...
- Tags: text advertisement, advertisement, Craigslist
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster: Delightfully communist
- Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster: Delightfully communistWhy?Why should Craigslist force ads on people when there are more than enough ads in the world already. Justifying it by saying it could be given to charity is stupid - let people donate to the charities they like rather than have someone else...
- Tags: eBay Inc., Anarchy, Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist, Communist, Communism, communist, capitalist, capitalism
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster: Delightfully communist
- Take the Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, who has been described as a socialist anarchist and a communist, drop him into an investment conference with a bunch of capitalists and what do you get? Confused capitalists wondering how a company can exist without the urge to maximize profits. On...
- Tags: Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Page views per kilowatt hour: The socially responsible benchmark?
- In my recent interview with AMD's director of commercial solutions Margaret Lewis, part of the conversation covered the area of benchmarks; most notably the question of what the industry standard benchmark should be when the technology inside a computer is designed to deliver a certain amount of performance in...
- Tags: serverS
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- Craig's List CEO: Academics want our info, co-los hate our volume
- It must be hard being CEO of Craig's List, the online listings service that by several accounts is one of the ten-most trafficked Web property.You've got to fend off curious academics, pushy Realtors and co-location services that think you're being a bandwidth and power...
- Tags: Craig, List
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Amazon, AOL, eBay, Google, Yahoo - 'In support of Craigslist'
- A “Brief of Amici” was filed June 22, 2006, in the United States District Court for the Northeastern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, by ten leading Internet companies and organizations “in support of Craigslist” in the Chicago Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. lawsuit against Craigslist, Inc.. The...
- Tags: lawsuit
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- Sen. Wyden falls into Net neutrality misinformation trap
- George Ou clearly thinks the dirt he keeps finding under the Craigslist/Net neutrality rug is amounting to a story that's stranger than fiction. To the extent that it's disturbing, it is indeed strange. But, from my point of view, it's business as usual. In case you've been missing...
- Tags: Cox Interactive, Craigslist, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- Craigslist: paid classifieds killer, or impetus for more lucrative classifieds business
- When I interviewed Craig Newmark a few weeks ago about the impending introduction of fees for some New York City real estate listings at his namesake Craigslist see here for my interview, Newmark stressed how he helps rid the site of “bad behaviour” in his role as chief Customer Service...
- Tags: Craigslist
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- Craigslist suffers third outage in a week
- Craigslist suffers third outage in a weekHmm I haven't noticed anything unusual..."[B] "The outage is highly unusual for us," Buckmaster said in his e-mail. "[I][U]Our total downtime planned and unplanned is generally less than five hours per year, and we've had years without so much as a single hour of...
- Tags: Manufacturing, outage, Craigslist, Cox
- Discussion threads 2006-06-12
- Craigslist is being blocked by Cox Interactive
- Is this what the loss of net neutrality will bring? A reader on Silicon Valley Watcher left this tip: I use Cox cable internet, Cox's media empire printed classifieds is one of their big revenue drivers. Guess what? If you try to access Craigslist over Cox Cable internet... its nearly...
- Tags: Cox Interactive, Craigslist
- Blog posts 2006-06-06
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