Tag: CRAIGSLIST

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Despite the media's focus on ordering issues, "Antenna Attenuation" and questionable customer service, consumers purchased iPhone 4s at record pace over the weekend. Apple moved 1.7 million iPhones before Sunday, making the gadget's opening weekend the most successful ever for a cell phone. Basking in new gadget success, Apple has ...

Most iPad owners probably wouldn't trade their beloved gadget for much of anything -- unless, of course, they're stoned enough to take the kind of deal two burnouts in Arizona offered last week. As AZFamily reports, Jacob Walker and Joseph Velarde recently came up with the brilliant idea of offering a third generation iPod touch and a .25 ounce of fluffy marijuana in exchange for an iPad. As ...

Transactions on Craigslist might begin anonymously, with both users safely shielded by the warm comfort of their computer screens, but when it comes time to actually make the deal, human contact -- and the anxiety it entails -- invariably come into the equation. You may do your best to sniff out the person on the other end of the deal -- and try your hardest to convince them that you're not a ...

If you've ever wondered what the people who create weird posts on Craigslist might be like, now you can find out without having to meet them in person. According to Social Times, the online classifieds site recently launched Craigslist TV, which is a weekly Web series that highlights users and their insane posts. Back in March, Los Angeles area users who posted to the site were asked to ...

Now that we've had the opportunity to catch our collective breath after Saturday's Times Square bomb scare, police have begun piecing the clues together. And Monday night, they finally nabbed a suspect -- thanks, in part, to Craigslist. Authorities have reportedly identified one "person of interest" in connection with the bomb scare: Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... In a new Discovery Channel documentary, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking reportedly affirms his belief that extraterrestrial life exists, but he also offers a stern warning. Hawking likens the earthly arrival of alien ships to Columbus landing in the Americas -- only replace the influenza and smallpox with lasers and ...

In hopes of competing with Craigslist, eBay unveiled today a revamped classifieds site called eBay Classifieds. It will replace the company's old site, Kijiji, which just couldn't keep up with Craigslist in the U.S. According to The New York Times, Craigslist tallied about 4.5 million visitors in February, while Kijiji had about 2 million visitors. However, Kijiji will remain the same for ...

Entrepreneurs take note; people love selling things. eBay's an institution, Craigslist rakes in the cash for the little guys, even Etsy seems to thrive. So a site based solely on selling goods and services at one fixed price, no negotiating allowed, could be a bit of a hit. Especially when that fixed price is the low cost of five dollars, which, in a financially downtrodden time, is an awful lot ...

eBay has revealed a new pricing scheme for U.S. auctioneers that claims different listing fees from frequent and occasional sellers. "eBay Every Day" does away with upfront listing fees (for auctions only, not Buy It Now), and instead charges 9-percent of the final sale price, up to $50. The plan is limited to those sellers who post 100 or fewer listings per month. However, power sellers will ...

Share The Great Recession may be showing signs of recovery, but with unemployment rates still exorbitantly high and people continuing to face foreclosures, lots of us are still taking a financial beating. So, if you count yourself among the many still suffering from the Recession Blues, you might want to take a page out of Jason Paul's book -- and live on Craigslist. As Jason Kottke writes, ...

So it's come to this. After all the melodrama, all the rumors, all the flaring tempers, the NBC late night soap opera has not only apparently sent Conan O'Brien packing, but also forced him into a life of online "prostitution." After unsuccessfully trying to sell 'The Tonight Show' via a Craigslist ad, O'Brien has kicked things up a notch (as he is wont to do), posting a personal ad to the ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... At first glance, 'Avatar' seems like it could either be an awe-inspiring F/X masterpiece or just a laughably ridiculous sci-fi punch line. Yesterday, a London audience indicated that the film could indeed be the former, as the closing credits were met with rare applause. [From: Newsvine] The App store's highly publicized puritan ...

With the decade coming to a close in less than two months, expect to see plenty of "Best of" lists. It's awful fun to think back on marquee moments from years past, especially when those moments occurred on our beloved Internet. Plus, it's shocking to recall just how much the Web has changed since the start of the millennium. In that spirit, the Webby Awards has released its list of "The Ten Most ...

Craigslist has long been home to sketchy activity. But the latest scandal involving the notoriously lawless classified ad site might just take the cake. According to a report by WCBS in New York, Margery Tannenbaum, a Long Island social worker (seriously, a social worker), is facing charges of aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors claim that Tannenbaum, ...

Part urban poetry, part pure comedy, there is something touching about Sophie Blackall's "Missed Connections NY" drawings. Like most of us urban dwellers, Sophie occasionally drops in on the Craigslist 'Missed Connections' section, which hopes that some lovelorn individual has a moment of reciprocation with a complete stranger. Sophie draws those moments, simply, in colored pencil, and describes ...