craigslist blog http://blog.craigslist.org Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:19:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Posting Spike http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/posting-spike/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/posting-spike/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:19:35 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=52 Hmmm, wonder which of these cities is hosting an athletic event:

Tickets anyone?

]]> http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/posting-spike/feed/ Sleeping Around http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/sleeping-around/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/sleeping-around/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:30:49 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=50 2 middle-aged women find that casual sex can be anything but casual.

]]> http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/sleeping-around/feed/ Peep Creep http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/peep-creep/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/peep-creep/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:54:14 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=49 CL users in the US were up 76% from last June, to nearly 40 million.

Thats a lot of peeps. Welcome newcomers!

]]> http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/peep-creep/feed/ Kissing Lessons? Hmmm http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/kissing-lessons-hmmm/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/kissing-lessons-hmmm/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:55:44 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=48 A 20 year old Georgia Tech student is looking for kissing lessons, claiming he’s never kissed before.

Here’s a copy of his craigslist ad.

Seems to me I’ve heard this one before, but I suppose we should give him the benefit of the doubt.

Either way, hate the game not the player.

]]> http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/kissing-lessons-hmmm/feed/ Bed, Bath, and Beyond http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/bed-bath-and-beyond/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/bed-bath-and-beyond/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:04:55 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=47 Florida CL user offering her house and self as a package deal.

Props for thinking outside the box in a tough real estate market.

]]> http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/07/bed-bath-and-beyond/feed/ CL Cat Rescued http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/cl-cat-rescued/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/cl-cat-rescued/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:11:50 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=45 A 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 house got the help he needed.

craigslist cat rescued

A professional tree trimmer with a bucket truck showed up Tuesday morning to rescue the high-climbing feline.

]]> http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/cl-cat-rescued/feed/ New Recruit http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/new-recruit/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/new-recruit/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:47:28 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=43 MySQL guru, open-source evangelist, prominent tech blogger, and long time Yahoo engineer Jeremy Zawodny has now announced that he will be gliding into 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 star LAMPerl developers, systems heavyweights, and networking wizards.

]]> http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/new-recruit/feed/ Ellen Show MC http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/ellen-show-mc/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/ellen-show-mc/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:12:13 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=42 Yet Another Missed Connections Success Story (YAMCSS)

Unlike most, this one was featured on The Ellen Degeneres Show

]]> http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/ellen-show-mc/feed/ Fight Spam, Digitize Books http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/fight-spam-digitize-books/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/fight-spam-digitize-books/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:26:48 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=41

We’re experimenting with CAPTCHA images from the reCAPTCHA project at Carnegie Mellon, here’s an excerpt from the reCAPTCHA wikipedia entry:

“reCAPTCHA supplies subscribing websites with images of words that optical character recognition (OCR) software has been unable to read. The subscribing websites (whose purposes are generally unrelated to the book digitization project) present these images for humans to decipher as CAPTCHA words, as part of their normal validation procedures. They then return the results to the reCAPTCHA service, thereby contributing to the digitization project. The result is that the university receives approximately 3,000 man hours per day of free labor to help in the preservation of books.”

Luis Von Ahn, who originally coined the term CAPTCHA back in 2000, is also the guy behind the reCAPTCHA project, not to mention the ESP Game, and several other “games with a purpose.”

]]> http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/fight-spam-digitize-books/feed/ Dirt Cheap http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/dirt-cheap/ http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/06/dirt-cheap/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:00:56 +0000 jim http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=40 Please don’t waste dirt’s time by emailing dirt and asking for more money.

DIRT isn’t here to subsidize your craigslist lifestyle.

Dirt just wants to be gone.

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