Craigs List

Virtual Community? or just Classified Ads site?

Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list to friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It became a web-based service in 1996 and expanded into other classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. and Canadian cities in 2000. ... In 2009, Craigslist operated with a staff of 28 people.[3] Its main source of revenue is paid Job Market ads in select cities – $75 per ad for the San Francisco Bay Area; $25 per ad for New York City, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, Seattle, Washington D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia, Orange County (California) and Portland, Oregon – and paid broker apartment (Real Estate) listings in New York City ($10 per ad). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist