2. What
is
Craigslist?
• Craigslist.org,
originally
a
San
Francisco
community
electronic
newsle;er,
is
now
one
of
the
most
visited
English
language
Web
sites,
with
local
classifieds
for
more
than
450
ciEes
worldwide.
3. What’s
doing?
• Craigslist's
founder
Craig
Newmark
and
CEO
Jim
Buckmaster
aim
to
provide
users
with
a
helpful,
noncommercial
way
to
connect
with
other
people
in
their
communiEes
.
PosEng
for
most
classifieds
categories
on
craigslist
is
free,
and
it's
also
free
to
browse
and
respond
to
ads.
4. The
Craigslist
Network
• Each
craigslist
site
focuses
on
a
specific
community.
As
the
service
grew
in
popularity,
expanding
well
beyond
founder
Craig
Newmark's
original
concept,
craigslist
added
other
ciEes
to
its
network
5.
• .
The
first
city
to
join
the
network
was
Boston
in
2000.
A
couple
of
months
later,
Chicago,
Los
Angeles,
New
York
City,
Portland,
San
Diego,
Sea;le
and
Washington,
D.C.
followed
suit.
Today,
more
than
450
ciEes
have
a
craigslist
community
site.
6. Craigslist's
fact
sheet
• more
than
25
million
new
classified
ads
• more
than
1.5
million
job
posEngs
• more
than
75
million
user
posEngs
in
the
forums
secEon
• more
than
10
million
new
photos
uploaded
(users
can
include
pictures
in
their
adverEsements
as
long
as
the
photos
don't
violate
craigslist's
terms
of
use)
• more
than
30
million
user
visits,
most
of
which
are
from
the
United
States
• more
than
8
billion
page
views,
pu]ng
craigslist
in
the
top
10
English-‐language
sites
