Craigslist News

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

"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.