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Craigslist Eyed for Possible Future IPO
An anonymous reader writes "Eric Hellweg wonders if everyone's favorite want-ad site will join the ranks of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and, yes, Google. Hellweg guesses it makes $25 million a year by charging for only 12 percent of its ads. If it ramped up payments on more ads throughout its many-city network, it could hit $100 million. That's a monster margin for a 14-person staff! And they may even consider going public."
They'll eventually buy out Tomshardware if this falls through...
The ghetto of the internet is not craigslist.
Craigslist is the trailer park of the internet -- a mixture of hippies low on cash, wanna be millionaires selling herbal remedies, and all noticeably smelly and white.
Usenet is also not the ghetto. It's more the mostly abandoned hardcore, kind of like the ruins of Detroit -- looks like nuclear war, but surprising amounts of people living there.
The ghetto of the internet is web forums such as yahoo groups.
Yeah, it needs some animated GIFs and flash intros to each listing. Maybe a javascript cursor or two and MIDI background music? Stars and Stripes Forever would work well, don't you think?
Websites with people names in them just kind of fail in the long run... I mean, kids have their own websites with names like "Billy's Site" and they just don't have that "appeal" to em...
Ah. Did someone move the rock or did you crawl out on your own?
http://www.craigslist.org/ is the site. You type in Craigslist.com and you end up at the former, just as you say. That's the place. Simple and elegant, eh?
By the way, George W. Bush is President and California is now a state of the union.
Anything else we can clear up?
So, /. must be the Berekely if the internet. I don't mean in terms of actual politics, I mean in terms of the mindset that assumes everyone thinks like us, or would if they were intelligent....
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I think that you and I must be reading two completely different slashdots.
I read your comment and then your sig read my mind....
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.