Topic: Craig Newmark

Is It Still Craig's List?

When you're a small, spirited startup built on community, personal attention, and customer service, attracting the investment of one of the world's largest dotcoms can be daunting. Craig's List's leaders had the courage to collaborate with eBay, and early reports indicate that the company will remain grounded -- while still having more room to grow.READ»

Honesty and Astroturf in a Meritocracy

Craig Newmark's post on astroturfing and Nick Aster's follow-up post remind me of the famous New Yorker cartoon stating "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog." But astroturfing is no joke and an unfortunate, unseemly reality ...READ»

Customer-Centered Leader Runner-up: Craig Newmark

Armed only with a Treo, Craigslist founder, Craig Newmark, wages constant battle against the hordes of unscrupulous and fraudulent that would defile his website.READ»

Are You on Craig's List?

Craig Newmark has organized a community whose members include some of the Web's most influential people. Here is his manual for (virtual) community organizers.READ»

Craigslist's Craig Newmark Turns to Charity Promotion

Craig Newmark has a new gig: As well as working on his famously successful Craigslist, he's dabbling in philanthropy. But since he doesn't have Bill Gates' piles of cash, he's using a different asset--his voice.Newmark's just ...READ»

Craig's List and Online Community

Craig Newmark launched Craig's List in 1995 to better help people connect through events around San Francisco. The site has since grown into a national community. While the service primarily helps people with everyday challenges -- ...READ»

Craigslist and the Media

Tradional media continue to grapple with new media. Last night's episode of Nightline had a segment on Craig Newmark and his Internet-classifieds Website. While the show devoted some time to smiling customers, it mostly focused on ...READ»

What Happens When Consumers Control Content?

Notes from a panel on user-generated content at at the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference: John Hiler, CEO of Xanga.net -- When you turn something [a site] over to the community they may start doing something they consider to be ...READ»

The Mark of Craig-O

I stopped by Harvard's annual conference on The Internet and Society this morning, mostly to see a panel on business and politics - what those two fields can learn from one another about using the Net. The panel wandered...and ...READ»

Exec Meets Blog. Exec Falls in Love.

Execs are blogging about everything from war to kangaroo meat. But should you tune in?READ»

Web 2.0 Community Responds to Hurricane Season

When Hurricane Gustav threatened to crash into New Orleans and bring more destruction to the city that never recovered from Hurricane Katrina, Andy Carvin, a social media strategist for National Public Radio, used his Web 2.0 savvy ...READ»

Fast Company... on Film!

Three years ago, Fast Company featured Craig Newmark, founder of the popular online resource exchange Craig's List. Soon, the mailing list will be a documentary movie. Bay Area filmmaker Michael Ferris Gibson is chronicling 24 hours ...READ»

New York's OneWebDay Celebration

Today's OneWebDay event in New York's Battery Park was disappointing. Perhaps because I read a lot of blogs, and many bloggers require little coaxing to wax rhapsodic about how the Web has transformed their job/social life/sense of ...READ»

Craig Newmark Interview: The Role of the Marketer is Changing

From the Marketers Forum at the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference in New York, produced by Corante and Columbia Business School's Center on Global Brand Leadership. Craig Newmark, Founder of craigslist.org, talks about trust, ...READ»

Celebrate OneWebDay!

Friday, netizens of the world will celebrate the first annual OneWebDay, an "Earth Day for the Web." Public events celebrating the influence of the web are planned in locations worldwide, including New York, Austin, London, Bulgaria, ...READ»

FC Now BlogJam 2006

As previously announced, FC Now's third anniversary is this month! To help celebrate and recognize the launch of what might very well be the first blog published by a business magazine, we're organizing the third annual FC Now ...READ»

Does Your CEO Blog?

“Helping Dolphins Fly” is the title of blogpost from CEO of Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz. Sun Microsystems is not helping dolphins fly of course, it’s a metaphor for their acquisition of My SQL (their logo is a dolphin). Johnathan is one of the leaders in the CEO blogging community and has set an example of the what a CEO blog can be. We will weigh the benefits and downsides of CEO blogging to help determine whether or not you, as a CEO, or your boss should take…READ»

So Is It 'cBay' or 'Ebayslist'?

This morning, Craig Newmark explained in his blog how EBay has managed to acquire minority interest in Craigslist. "So, with the idea of establishing checks and balances, mostly on myself, I made a gift of some equity in Craigslist ...READ»

Web: Can A Social Network Save Business 2.0?

Yesterday, I completely missed the news. The New York Times's Brad Stone wrote about, "Ad Downtown Threatening the Survival of Business 2.0." Forbes Brian Caulfield had even covered the impending demise of the publication, "Bye-Bye, ...READ»

The Brand Called Obama

Win or lose, Barack Obama's rise changes business as usual for everyone. Here's why.READ»

• How to Build a Brand Like Obama
• The Brand Called President
• How Obama Won It With the Web

Is Misleading the Public Really Profitable?

There shouldn’t be a choice between honest public relations and outright skewing of the truth for short-term gain, but as we know from never ending battles with tobacco companies, the latter is all too often common practice. Enter ...READ»

The Frenemy Relationship in Business

The friend-enemy relationship (aka friend-foe, or "froe") has become essential to business -- a thrillingly intricate dance that would impress even Bruno and Carrie Ann. Imagine Apple without the record labels, Google without Yahoo, and Harvey Weinstein without everyone else. The relationship can be so baffling, we humbly offer this field guide.READ»

How to Design the Internet Experience Without Becoming the Advertisers' Bitch

New web ventures need income. But if you’re going to be 2.0, then you can’t be the advertisers’ bitch. Everyone’s so very tired of that uninvited guest, the corporation. READ»

• Graham Button's blog Like it or Not

Muutu: The eBay of Classified Ads?

The Demo Pit at the annual TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco is filled with eager startups gunning for their shot at stardom. Most of the companies are forgettable, but every so often one catches our attention. Muutu, a company ...READ»

The Doctor of the Future

Cost, access, quality -- the prognosis for American health care may look grim, but innovation is the cure. The medicine of tomorrow is being born today.READ»

• Why Electronic Health Records Are Worth the Hype--and the Price
• Myca and Hello Health Preview Their Facebook-like Medical Platform
• Healing Yourself Via YouTube: The Amazing and Frightening Future of Health Care