Craig is no entrepreneur ... right? (no business plan etc.)

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any idea what was the cnewmark.com address (which was the craigslist address for 1996 - 1997) registered as?

"Newmark Enterprises" ...

Delia

P.S. looks like Craig had entrepreneurial ambitions from the very beginning... (re: "Online Since: 24-Oct-1995" under "Site Stats")

craigslist acting like a walled garden...

Craig Donato (Oodle), answering Donna Bogatin's question:" Craigslist a walled garden? Yes, I guess you could say they are acting like one. They are putting up a wall between the listings that consumers publish in their marketplace and those consumers that may want to use a search engine or other tool to help them shop with online classifieds"

Delia

P.S. great info again! (I just wish Donna could overcome craigslist's PR...and she just might:) -- she keeps getting pretty good info... you'd think at some point she would just let go of all that non-sense...) D.

Howard:"Newmark and Buckmaster telling users what they want..."

yep! I agree with Howard on this... I just think he's mistaken on the "socialist classified utopia" thing -- as I was saying earlier on, we'll see what happens...

Delia

P.S. oh... and I think Lucas is right on the profit seeking thing...

Donna keeps embarassing herself...

... just can't stop eating up their goofy PR... (as I was saying, once you've bought the craigslist spiel... it's hard to think straight...) D.

wylbur:" I got stalked through Craigslist. Craig was no help"...

well, MUCH worse than that: "When I wrote to him and pointed out how much more helpful MSN was being, he told me I was a liar. When my fiancee wrote to him to ask him to help stop the stalking posts, he wrote to her and told her that I had control issues and she should leave me."

Delia

P.S. again, anybody else would have probably gotten fired for providing such "customer service"...

P.P.S. wylbur: "The stalking posts were fake posts containing my name and e-mail address in the post body and implied I was organizing a flash mob."

interesting character: 1stskeptic

1stskeptic :not a bad thread... some of his later posts were yanked... (he was going to do an article and include this experience with craigslist and inviting users to email him in connection with this).

Delia

P.S. I'm getting some odd phone calls... coming from an 800 number (G. called to see what the heck it was all about just to have someone hang up on him when he said he just needed to know what this number was... -- I hope it has nothing to do with this blog, a while ago I had to get rid of a Trojan horse on my computer...) D.

Craig starts responding to comments on his blog...

... why now? he "just figured out" his typekey account... (or so his story goes... -- a "hard-core programmer" who takes months to figure out something as basic as an account? ) D.