CL discussion forums surpassed the 100 million postings mark today
Unlike classifieds (which recently topped 800 million), forum postings are threaded, and don’t expire.
Couch for Sale
August 7, 2008Dozen or so felines do not appear to be included:
Hmmm, wonder if there are any claw marks on this one?
Speeding Tickets
July 23, 2008
Sleeping Around
July 10, 20082 middle-aged women find that casual sex can be anything but casual.
Peep Creep
July 9, 2008CL users in the US were up 76% from last June, to nearly 40 million.
Thats a lot of peeps. Welcome newcomers!
Kissing Lessons? Hmmm
July 8, 2008A 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.
Bed, Bath, and Beyond
July 3, 2008Florida CL user offering her house and self as a package deal.
Props for thinking outside the box in a tough real estate market.
CL 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.
Fight Spam, Digitize Books
June 10, 2008
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.”
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