Featured Community Web Site:
Craigslist (Craig's List, Craigs List)
Craigslist includes hundreds of networking websites for communities in the U.S. and around the world. There are now over 300 craigslist sites in all 50 US states, and over 50 countries.
The Craigslist sites are loaded with classified ads and forums - they are places to to find jobs, housing, goods and services, social activities, romantic partners, advice, community information and just about everything else, all for free. The Craigslist web site says that it aims to "provide a trustworthy, efficient, relatively non-commerical place for folks to find all the basics in their local area."
Craigslist was started in 1995 by Craig Newmark of San Franscisco and in 2006, is the SEVENTH most popular web site on the Internet, with FOUR BILLION page views and more than ten million users per month, as well as over 10 million classified ads and over 500,000 job listings per month. In addition, topical forums contain over 40 million user postings. In 2004, Ebay bought a 25% stake in Craig's list.
A 2004 Boston Globe article about Craigslist said, "Craigslist has evolved into a phenomenal community resource. But it's one that worries other companies in the business of classified advertising: newspapers, magazines, and even other websites such as Monster.com.... Craigslist brings in between $5 million and $10 million in revenue annually, even though the site doesn't sell any advertising, and charges for help-wanted ads only in three cities. (Craigslist's chief executive, Jim) Buckmaster, says the long-term goals are simple: 'We want to provide the Craigslist service wherever it is requested, wherever it is wanted, wherever it is needed.'"
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Featured Community Web Site:
Myspace
Myspace, at http://www.myspace.com,one of the top ten web sites in 2006 is a free online community which enables you to connect with your friends, make new friends and meet in cyberspace the friends of your friends. At Myspace, you create your own private network where you can share photos, messages, and journals with each other. Here, single people meet other singles, families keep in touch, classmastes communicate, and business people network with co-workers, colleagues and new contacts.
To join Myspace, you sign up and create a profile in which you describe yourself, and optionally, upload pictures. Once you login to Myspace, you can you search for friends who are Myspace members, and invite them to join your personal network. Here, you can also view the connections you create between your friends and their friends, extending your network as you meet people with whom you are personally and professionally compatible.
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