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- 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
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- Conference for media reform
- Free Press hosts the National Conference for Media Reform, June 6-8 in Minneapolis. From the press release: We're at an important point in the history of the media -- a point where the decentralized Internet and the centralized media are finally meeting head on," said...
- Tags: Media, Conference, Free Press, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- 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
- 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
- Craig of craigslist: Bush phone surveillance requests pre-date 9/11
- Craig Newmark, who of course is the craig in craigslist, comments in essence that while the Reagan administration obeyed the law to gather intelligence information on Communists, the current Administration in Washington has been attempting to persuade telephone companies to allow warrantless intercepts of possible terrorist phone calls even...
- Tags: Phone, Agency, 9/11 Commission, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- 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
- News to know: Vista in your living room; Microsoft ditches anti-Linux site; SAP
- Notable headlines:Ed Bott: Vista Media Center takes over the living room. Gallery right: Using Windows Vista as a home theater hub.David Berlind's Tech Shakedown #6: Could Kodak site's Vista incompatibilities be a sign of something else?Dan Farber: SAP's cautious Web 2.0 imagineering. Dennis Howlett: SAPs 429 page lecture: who's learning...
- Tags: Ticker, Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-26
- Craig Newmark on eBay, Craigslist 'exit strategy'
- Craig Newmark on eBay, Craigslist 'exit strategy'Great guy.. great service..Make sure to thank him for me.I have used his service to give away stuff to people who needed it badely.. it made the connection.It beats ebay because its more of a local contact than distant. It does not push...
- Tags: eBay Inc., Craig Newmark, Craigslist, strategy
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- Craig Newmark on eBay, Craigslist 'exit strategy'
- An evening with Craig Newmark is always a treat. The namesake behind the ever popular Craigslist has his signature shtick, but it is heartfelt.Think YouTube's Chad Hurley gets all the love?Newmark was the guest of honor at the Social Media Club's NYC meeting last evening and many of the new...
- Tags: Craigslist, Citizen Journalism
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Facebook vs. Craigslist? NO magic formula in online classifieds
- Craigslist vs. Facebook? Why Craigslist wins, big time I analyzed one week ago, with an inside preview of the new Facebook Marketplace classifieds offering.Both Craig Newmark, Craigslist, and Chris Kelly, Facebook, participated in the Personal Democracy Forum yesterday in New York City and I chatted with them about the dynamic...
- Tags: Local, Facebook, Craigslist, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-19
- 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
- Facebook Classifieds? NOT 'Another Blow for Newspapers'
- A “Canadian take on telecom and technology” fears a New York Times story titled “Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds” signals “Another Blow for Newspapers”:Mark Evans: For anyone looking to reach an audience of 22 million active users (many of them young people who don’t read newspapers), this is a huge...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Facebook, classifieds
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Earth to Craig Newmark: what Internet are you on?
- Earth to Craig Newmark: what Internet are you on?So what are you saying?You don't trust your own readers, friends, peers, comrades, etc.? Because those are the people using the "internet" of which you speak. You referred to some extreme, and disgusting, misuses of the internet. And when it comes to...
- Tags: Tim, Internet, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- Earth to Craig Newmark: what Internet are you on?
- I heard Craig Newmark on the radio today. Schlumpy Craig, as New York magazine calls him, was on NPRs All Things Considered laying out his theory of human nature. Humans are OK, a smiling Craig reassures us: I used to share the cynicism common to many nerds: that people...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- 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
- Can rich Americans save newspapers?
- Okay. So Craigslist is shafting newspapers with its free sex ads. But is there anything we can actually do to save these wonderfully civilizing and civilized institutions? Free market digital fundamentalists will, of course, argue that newspapers are inevitable roadkill on route to their self-publishing utopia. But, for the rest...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- 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
- Bid4Spots vs. Google Audio Ads? EXCLUSIVE 'Real Deal' CEO interview on radio battle
- Bid4Spots is an online marketplace for unsold commercial radio advertising inventory based on the premise that when ”radio stations have unsold airtime close to the week of broadcast, many would rather sell it at a substantially discounted rate, than not sell it at all.”Bid4Spots runs weekly reverse auctions where radio...
- Tags: Bid4Spots, ROI, Radio, Google Software Applications, The Real Deal, Marketing, Google, Search, Advertising, Media, Local, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-10
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