{"id":479,"date":"2007-02-01T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2007-02-01T21:51:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T05:51:55","slug":"what-is-craigslistorg-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/what-is-craigslistorg-really\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Craigslist.org? really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, these questions come up all the time&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\">craigslist.org<\/a>? Who is this guy?  How does he make money if the whole site is free?<\/p>\n<p>This might help&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since Craig Newmark founded the site in 1995 simply to &#8220;help out, in a very small way&#8221; he has resisted an onslaught of advertising offers, multi-million-dollar buy outs and even the courtship of national TV shows and Hollywood studios. Now for the first time, for a single, random twenty-four hour period, he has opened up the list to an underground film crew to go behind the scenes and come face to face with some of the posters on the world&#8217;s biggest &#8220;digital commons&#8221;.  Here is the trailer for the movie:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OJtAoLrGA8Q\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OJtAoLrGA8Q\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>More details here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/24hoursoncraigslist.com\">www.24hoursoncraigslist.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=475\">Did you know.. Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.org met with the Ubertor founders?<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/what-is-craigslistorg-really\/' data-title='What is Craigslist.org? really' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/what-is-craigslistorg-really\/' data-title='What is Craigslist.org? really' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, these questions come up all the time&#8230; What is craigslist.org? Who is this guy? How does he make money if the whole site is free? This might help&#8230; Since Craig Newmark founded the site in 1995 simply to &#8220;help out, in a very small way&#8221; he has resisted an onslaught of advertising offers, multi-million-dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}