Archive for the 'Craigslist.org' Category
Compete.com does a good job of unearthing some of the traffic breakdown on Craigslist.org. The conclusion: sex sells.
A deeper digging suggests that the site is used by men seeking men.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, especially when you consider that gay men represent a very good demographic, usually two high wage earning […]
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Over the past week, Doubleclick has been making a lot of noise, suggesting that it is planning a public offering or a sale. Today they came out and talked about launching a supply and demand marketplace for display advertising. Right Media, a company that does this already, but lacks the direct access to publishers, last year got […]
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Some pretty interesting stats from Bambi Francisco:
Not only are some consumers not paying for content, some are displacing those heretofore assigned to create it and others are affecting the economics by their online-sharing behavior.
That additional power given to the audience is evident in the financial results of many companies.
In the magazine industry, advertising pages at […]
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The following article is a modified excerpt of my next/third book called Context is King, which increasingly is being published in bits and pieces on this blog.
We’re about to enter a new phase of the Web’s development, the writing is on the wall.
The 1994-2000 era was Phase 1 (and frankly, that could be broken down into sub-phases). […]
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While newspapers have managed to build sizable audiences online and generate revenues, they have not managed to become profitable. Part of the reason is that users expect free content and services like Craigslist.org have offered free classifieds, making it harder for newspapers to sell listings to merchants and individuals.
Craigslist was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark. […]
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After we developed and launched StreetMojo.com, the application matching people looking for free contests, prizes and promotions with marketers offering free contests, prizes and promotions (here’s a press release explaining it a bit more), I figured we could simply tweak the application and convert it into a classified service. In fact, the matching application has many […]
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Genghis Khan, Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and of course, Craig Newmark. That, my friends, is what newspapers (all right, not all, but some) would want you to believe.
I read this on Forbes and would have given anything to be a part of the audience when Craigslist’s CEO Jim Buckmaster essentially told off a […]
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Like most people, I love Craigslist (CL). I also think - like most people - that Craig Newmark deserves every ounce of success and praise he gets. When eBay bought 25% of Craigslist, I wasn’t yet a user of CL, so I didn’t know what to think from a consumer perspective. But from a business sense, […]
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