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22 hrs ago | TechCrunch

Craigslist's Craig Newmark Joins Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will join the advisory board of Wikimedia Foundation , the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia .

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Related Topix: Startups, Non-Profit

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Associated Content

Is Craigslist a Good Way to Promote My Business?

Craigslist has proved to be a very useful venue for businesses to promote themselves; small businesses especially can benefit from the large user base and ease of placing advertisements on this popular site.

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Related Topix: Startups, Small Business, Personal Finance, Marketing, Retail, Target, Baltimore Metro

Tue Nov 10, 2009

BlackBerry Cool

Official Craigslist app coming to BlackBerry App World soon

The official Craigslist app by Movela will be hitting App World any day and it looks really great.

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Related Topix: Startups

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Cityfeeds.com

Just another day in paradise

From the Craigslist Rants and Raves section, just today: A woman hates her ex because he poisoned San Francisco for her.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Startups, Blog News, Social Software, World News, China,

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Information Week - All Stories and Blogs

Craigslist Founder To Advise Veteran Affairs

Craig Newmark, the founder of classified ad site Craigslist, will participate in a new panel formed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to review ideas for improving disability claims processing at the agency.

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Related Topix: Startups, Local Search, Life, Veteran Affairs

Thu Nov 05, 2009

The Huffington Post

Craig Newmark: Why "Craigslist Founder Joins Veterans Affairs Innovation Search Panel"

Craig Newmark, the founder of "craigslist" and a well-known technology visionary, has agreed to serve on the blue-ribbon panel of the Department of Veterans Affairs that will review and evaluate ideas to improve disability claims processing times and provide greater transparency to Veterans.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs, Startups

Wed Nov 04, 2009

SFGate

Alert readers will remember the column I wrote a few days ago about Susan...

Alert readers will remember the column I wrote a few days ago about Susan Finkelstein, a woman who wrote a vaguely suggestive ad on Craigslist suggesting that she would do almost anything to get a pair of World Series tickets.

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Related Topix: Startups

Tue Nov 03, 2009

BNET

Craiglist Founder: Why Large Companies are Dysfunctional

Craig Newmark tells entrepreneurs what they can learn from his experience as founder of Craigslist.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Apartment hunting in Silicon Valley moves online

With rents falling and vacancies rising in Silicon Valley, finding decent new rental digs may be easier, especially for those who take their hunt for an apartment online.

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Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Mortgage, Marketing, San Francisco Metro, Startups

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Cherry Creek News

Preserving The Open Internet

With the way the Internet is structured right now, it is just as easy for Americans to visit a tiny website about knitting run by a young mother in Ohio as it is to visit a site run by the federal government or a major corporation.

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Related Topix: Telecom, Cisco Systems, Computers, Startups, Business News, Federal Communications Commission, US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics, John McCain, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Anna Eshoo

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Gawker

Foul-mouthed Ticket Scalper Expounds on Life, Love, and the Sex-for-Phillies-Tickets Scandal

One thing we learned from the case of the Philadelphia woman accused of trying to trade sex for Phillies tickets is that the underground ticket game is hard .

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Related Topix: Sex Scandal, Startups, Lake Placid, NY

San Francisco Chronicle

Personalization moving into screening spotlight

Consumers are increasingly relying on humans to help them sift through the huge amounts of news, video, music and other media online, as social networking and old-fashioned editorial filtering promise ever more personalized results, according to speakers at a seminar on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Science, Computer Science, San Francisco Metro, Startups, Internet, Science / Technology

Wed Oct 28, 2009

CNET News.com

S. Carolina can't blame this sex on Craigslist

File this under the practice-what-you-preach department. Craigslist founder Craig Newmark Remember Henry McMaster, South Carolina's state attorney general, the man who was shocked, shocked, shocked, to find illicit sex on Craigslist and earlier this year threatened to file charges against the classifieds' site? Perhaps McMaster would do well to ...

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Related Topix: Startups, Local Search, Columbia, SC, Columbia Metro

Tue Oct 27, 2009

The StarPhoenix

Scams thrive on Craigslist, police warn

On sites like craigslist, Montrealers swap their trendoid 4 1/2s on the Plateau for spacious 6 1/2s in not-so-trendy Pointe St.

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Related Topix: Local Search, Startups

Mon Oct 26, 2009

NewsFactor Network

Craigslist Prostitution Suit Dismissed

U.S. District Court Judge John Grady said not all postings on the Craigslist "Adult Services" section advertised prostitution and that other services could legitimately appear there.

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Related Topix: Startups, Local Search

SF Weekly

S.F. Green Party Runs Short on Green, Abandons HQ. But There'll Be a HELL of a Party...

Whatever epithet you wish to toss at the San Francisco Green Party, "negative" doesn't seem to be applicable.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, The Mission (San Francisco, CA), San Francisco Metro, Startups, Local Search

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Top of the News

Polar bear habitat designated 'critical' WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Thursday it is designating more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as 'critical habitat' for polar bears, an action that could add restrictions to future offshore drilling for oil and gas.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Senator Ben Nelson, US Senate, Democrat, Startups, Local Search

Sat Oct 24, 2009

The Volokh Conspiracy

Craigslist Not Liable for Prostitution Ads

So held a federal district court in Dart v. Craigslist, Inc. Here's what plaintiff, the Cook County, Illinois, Sheriff claimed: [Sheriff Dart] alleges that the a oeerotica services section of Craigslista s popular Internet classifieds service facilitates prostitution and constitutes a public nuisance.

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Related Topix: Startups, Local Search, Cook County, IL

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Arizona Daily Star

Around the Nation

BENICIA a ' A fleet of old, rotting warships shedding toxic paint into the water near San Francisco Bay will be cleaned up and recycled under a new plan announced by federal officials Thursday.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Drugs, Federal Prisons, Prison, Startups, Local Search

NBC Chicago

Craig Newmark Doesn't Feel Guilty About Craigslist Criminals

"People might use our site, much like they might use the phone, or a car, or the roads, and I can't find a reason for any of us to feel guilty about it," Newmark said of folks looking to score some weed, arrange a discreet meeting with a ladyboy or mug someone looking to buy a used car.

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