Last week, Craigslist released a feature that finally provides map views for one of its most popular sections: apartment listings. But what would happen if it mapped out the entire site?
As part of an experiment by Audi, Lindsay Rule made it from Boston to San Francisco relying only on the kindness of strangers and the electronic networks that now tie us all together.
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Joseph Garner, director of "Craigslist Joe," wanted to see whether or not online communities could actually take care of people in real life. Here, Garner talks about how to get just about anything you need from social media--and some IRL chutzpah.
According to a 2010 survey by Pew Research Center, 28% of Americans don’t know any of their neighbors by name, and only 9% communicate with them via email. Those unfriendly statistics are something startup Nextdoor.com hopes to change.
Has popular online classifieds site Craigslist become a cesspool of crime? A destination for mayhem? A hub of murders, rapes, robberies, hit-man-for-hire, assault, and fraud? Or is that what competitors would like you to think?
