Florida CL user offering her house and self as a package deal.
Props for thinking outside the box in a tough real estate market.
Archive for the ‘People’ Category
Bed, Bath, and Beyond
July 3, 2008CL Cat Rescued
June 25, 2008A Denver man who put an ad on craigslist hoping someone could lend a hand and get a cat down from the top of a 60-foot tree in front of his housegot the help he needed.
A professional tree trimmer with a bucket truck showed up Tuesday morning to rescue the high-climbing feline.
New Recruit
June 19, 2008MySQL guru, open-source evangelist, prominent tech blogger, and long time Yahoo engineer Jeremy Zawodny has now announced that he will be glidinginto our little Shangri-La as of July 21st.
We’re excited to have him joining our team.
Worth mentioning that the CL tech hiring bit remains set to “1″ for starLAMPerl developers, systems heavyweights, and networking wizards.
Clear Eyes
May 27, 2008It’s troubling that the NY TImes can’t find a more worthy columnist than Nixon speech writer, intelligent design proponent, game show host, pro-life activist, and commercial pitchman Ben Stein.
In this Sunday’s column, after noting that the gargantuan oil supply we currently enjoy is largely being wasted, he concludes we should *increase* subsidies for oil producers, maximize offshore drilling domestically, and step up environmentally disastrous conversion of coal and tar sands to gasoline.
Hopefully we listen to our engineers and not our idiots.
Rigshock Riders and the Tour de Cure
May 5, 2008Team Craigslist AKA “Rigshock Riders” fielded 25 cyclists for yesterday’s Tour de Cure ride in Napa Valley, raising over $50,000 toward finding a cure for diabetes.
It’s a cause near and dear to our hearts — 2 of our 25 staff are diabetic, and our longtime PR maven Susan MacTavish Best is the granddaughter of Charles Best, co-discover of insulin.
Here are a couple shots of the craigslist peloton from the rear — reportedly the only vantage available to the other teams participating:
Here’s part of the team relaxing (oops am told this pic is from last year’s ride, pre-jerseys, duh), and Sean Knox, one of our sys admins, who has organized our charitable rides for 2 years running:
Kudos, Congratulations and Thanks to all who participated!
Note of Thanks
April 29, 2008We really appreciate the outpouring of encouragement we have received in the last few days from craigslist users, from Ebay users, and from the general public.
Especially touching have been the messages of support from Ebay employees, one of which I’ll share here:
As an engineer at ebay, all I could think when I saw the news was, “Surely, there’s another place to work.” Frankly, I doubt that CL is always right about everything, but for eBay to sue CL is off the charts stupid. eBay had no business grabbing that 25% in the first place. It’s a shame, because my co-workers are really nice, sweet people. But it’s as if I am working for ********* or something. I feel dirty. I’ll be updating my resume this weekend.
For anyone interested in recent press coverage, here is an MSNBC articlefrom earlier today.
Vox Populi
April 17, 2008Recently testified before the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, as part of a public hearing on the sale of sensitive military equipment on the internet.
It was a great learning experience, and we look forward to working more closely with the experts to provide craigslist users with better information as to what is and is not allowed to be sold.
Intriguingly though, of the organizations represented in this hearing, including the Department of Defense (which sells military surplus online), Ebay, and craigslist, it seemed evident to the Members of Congress (and everyone else in the room), that craigslist was already doing the best job of keeping sale of the items in question at bay, despite our small staff.
Had occasion to touch on this during the opening statements:
“Contrary to what the GAO report implies, craigslist has more people actively engaged in its anti-fraud efforts than any web site on earth. In addition to our in-house anti-fraud team numbering a dozen or more staff members, and the automated blocking and screening routines we have developed, craigslist benefits from tens of millions of passionate users diligently reviewing every ad on the site, with each user having the power to delete inappropriate ads, which power they exercise to the tune of several million ads removed each month. To their credit, the GAO investigators did notice that questionable ads were actually being removed from craigslist as they searched the site, an observation they did not make about any other site in their report.”
When it comes to site moderation on a massive scale, it’s difficult for a centralized staff of any size to compete with the efforts of tens of millions of vigilant and empowered users.
We’re hiring!
March 28, 2008Idealistic techies with strong LAMP credentials are encouraged to apply:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/622126302.html
Interesting projects, market rates, excellent benefits, and laid-back SF digs await you.
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