Craigslist Wikipedia. Craigslist Inc. Screenshot of the main page on January 2. Type of business. Private company. Type of site. An Oklahoma woman is accused of soliciting someone on Craigslist to travel to Israel to poison her exhusband with ricin, according to a Department of. The latest Crimesider news, headlines, stories, photos, and video from CBS News. Classifieds, forums. Available in. English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. Founded. 19. 95 1. Headquarters. San Francisco, California, U. The Oprah Winfrey Show was the number one talk show for 24 consecutive seasons, winning every sweep since its debut in 1986. It was produced in Chicago by Harpo. Have you ever heard one of those stories about a surgeon leaving a sponge or something inside a patient What happened to a Jalopnik reader and 2006 Mitsubishi Evo MR. S. 1Area served. FoundersCraig Newmark. Key people. Jim Buckmaster CEOServices. Web communications. Revenue. US 6. 94 million 2. Net income US 5. Employees. Websitewww. craigslist. Alexa rank 1. 10 February 2. Advertising. None. Registration. Optional. Launched. 19. 95 2. Current status. Active. Written in. Perl3Craigslist stylized as craigslist is an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, rsums, and discussion forums. Craig Newmark began the service in 1. San Francisco Bay Area. It became a web based service in 1. It started expanding to other U. S. cities in 2. 00. In March 2. 00. 8, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese became the first non English languages Craigslist supported. As of August 9, 2. Craigslist sites. Some Craigslist sites cover large regions instead of individual metropolitan areasfor example, the U. S. states of Delaware and Wyoming, the Colorado Western Slope, the California Gold Country, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the locations with their own Craigslist sites. HistoryeditHaving observed people helping one another in friendly, social, and trusting communal ways on the Internet via the WELL, Mind. Vox and Usenet, and feeling isolated as a relative newcomer to San Francisco, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark decided to create something similar for local events. In early 1. Most of the early postings were submitted by Newmark and were notices of social events of interest to software and Internet developers living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. The number of subscribers and postings grew rapidly. There was no moderation and Newmark was surprised when people started using the mailing list for non event postings. People trying to get technical positions filled found that the list was a good way to reach people with the skills they were looking for. This led to the addition of a jobs category. User demand for more categories caused the list of categories to grow. The initial technology encountered some limits, so by June 1. Majordomo had been installed and the mailing list Craigslist resumed operations. Community members started asking for a web interface. Newmark registered craigslist. In the fall of 1. List Foundation was introduced and Craigslist started transitioning to the use of this name. In April 1. 99. 9, when Newmark learned of other organizations called List Foundation, the use of this name was dropped. Craigslist incorporated as a private for profit company in 1. Around the time of these events, Newmark realized the site was growing so fast that he could stop working as a software engineer and devote his full attention to running Craigslist. By April 2. 00. 0, there were nine employees working out of Newmarks San Francisco apartment. In January 2. 00. CEO Jim Buckmaster joined the company as lead programmer and CTO. Buckmaster contributed the sites multi city architecture, search engine, discussion forums, flagging system, self posting process, homepage design, personals categories, and best of Craigslist feature. He was promoted to CEO in November 2. The website expanded into nine more U. S. cities in 2. 00. On August 1, 2. 00. Craigslist began charging 2. New York and Los Angeles pages. On the same day, a new section called Gigs was added, where low cost and unpaid jobs can be posted free. OperationseditThe site serves more than 2. United States per Alexa. June 2. 8, 2. 01. United States alone per Compete. January 8, 2. 01. With more than 8. Craigslist is the leading classifieds service in any medium. The site receives more than 2 million new job listings each month, making it one of the top job boards in the world. Craigslist also dominates the U. S. rental housing market, with millions of new listings every month. The 2. 3 largest U. S. cities listed on the Craigslist home page collectively receive more than 3. October 2. 01. 1. The classified advertisements range from traditional buysell ads and community announcements to personal ads. In 2. 00. 9, Craigslist operated with a staff of 2. Financials and ownershipeditIn December 2. UBS Global Media Conference in New York, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster told Wall Street analysts that Craigslist had little interest in maximizing profit, and instead preferred to help users find cars, apartments, jobs and dates. Craigslists main source of revenue is paid job ads in select American cities. The company does not formally disclose financial or ownership information. Analysts and commentators have reported varying figures for its annual revenue, ranging from 1. On August 1. 3, 2. Newmark announced on his blog that auction giant e. Bay had purchased a 2. Some fans of Craigslist expressed concern that this development would affect the sites longtime non commercial nature. As of April 2. 01. The company was believed to be owned principally by Newmark, Buckmaster and e. Bay the three board members. Bay owned approximately 2. Newmark is believed to own the largest stake. Watch It`S Kind Of A Funny Story Megavideo. In April 2. 00. 8, e. Bay announced it was suing Craigslist to safeguard its four year financial investment. Bay claimed that in January 2. Craigslist executives took actions that unfairly diluted e. Bays economic interest by more than 1. Craigslist filed a counter suit in May 2. Craigslist claimed was constituted by e. Bays actions as Craigslist shareholders the company claimed that it had used its minority stake to gain access to confidential information, which it then used as part of its competing service Kijiji. On June 1. 9, 2. 01. Bay Inc. announced that it would divest its stake back to Craigslist for an undisclosed amount, and settle its litigation with the company. The move came shortly before e. Bays planned spin off of Pay. Pal, and an effort to divest other units to focus on its core business. The Swedish luxury marketplace website Jameslist. July 1. 1, 2. 01. Jameslist. com 2. As a consequence, the young company was forced to rename to James. Edition. Content policieseditAs of 2. Craigslist data with Google Maps and adding their own search filters to improve usability. In June 2. 01. 2, Craigslist changed its terms of service to disallow the practice. In July 2. 01. 2, Craigslist filed a lawsuit against padmapper. Following the shutdown of Padmapper. Site characteristicseditPersonalseditOver the years Craigslist has become a very popular online destination for arranging for dates and sex. The personals section allows for postings that are for strictly platonic, datingromance, and casual encounters. The site is considered particularly useful by lesbians and gay men seeking to make connections, because of the services free and open nature and because of the difficulty of otherwise finding each other in more conservative areas. In 2. 00. 5, San Francisco Craigslists men seeking men section was attributed to facilitating sexual encounters and was the second most common correlation to syphilis infections. The company has been pressured by San Francisco Department of Public Health officials, prompting Jim Buckmaster to state that the site has a very small staff and that the public must police themselves. The site has, however, added links to San Francisco City Clinic and STD forums. Adult services controversyedit. Craigslist website as it appeared on September 4, 2. Adult Services. Advertisements for adult previously erotic services were initially given special treatment, then closed entirely on September 4, 2. The Way Engine Bearings Used To Be Made Is Utterly Fascinating. As cars change over the years, so do the skillsets of mechanics who work on them just try finding someone who can rebuild a carb or an old generator. Perhaps one of the most fascinating skills thats on its way out is a bearing pouring process called babbitting, as Road Track describes in this excellent article. Nowadays, people swap out engine bearings by simply replacing two bearing shell halves with new ones they can buy from the store. I did that with my 1. Willys CJ 2. A, and it was a breeze. But many engines older than my venerable Go Devil didnt use these bearing inserts, but instead babbitt bearings, which had to be made from scratch by pouring molten babbitt made primarily of tin, antimony and copper between a parts bearing surface and a mandrel. The gap between the part which has to have its old babbitt melted and scraped out and the mandrel made up the mould into which babbitt was poured. Heres a video showing part of the process Once the babbitt hardens, the machinest has to precisely remove the excess babbitt to ensure the right inner diameter, drill oiling holes, and prepare the surface. As Road Tracks Sam Smith wrote in his piece, this whole thing is an art form Metallurgy is science, but the results of babbitting must be gauged by eye and feel, which means the practice includes a healthy dose of art. If your poured babbitt isnt perfect, it will come apart under that load and take the engine with it. And there are myriad ways to make a babbitt bearing imperfect. You can pour it too quickly, too slowly, or at the wrong temperature. Or use the wrong blend of babbitt for the application, allow impurities into the melted metal. Read the whole story and prepare to be enlightened about an outdated but captivating car repair process conducted by only a few remaining wrenching wizards.