Craigs List.com

is a centralized network of online urban communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics.

Craigs List.com was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark for the San Francisco Bay Area. After incorporation in 1999, Craigs list.com expanded into nine more cities in 2000 (all of them in the U.S.), four each in 2001 and 2002, and 14 in 2003. Find a Job

As of 2005, Craigslist operates with a staff of 19 people. Its sole source of revenue is paid job ads in select cities ($75 per ad for the San Francisco Bay Area; $25 per ad for New York and Los Angeles).

As of October, 2005, Craigslist had established itself in approximately 150 cities in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, continental Europe, Australia, South Africa, Asia, Israel, and Brazil. Craigs List.com serves over 4 billion page views per month, good for 7th place overall among Internet companies, to 10 million unique visitors. With 7 million new classified ads each month, Craigslist is the leading classifieds service in any medium. Look For My Space Sample Craigs List classified ads: housing, apts, sublets, housing wanted, diets, housing swap, vacation rentals, parking, office, real estate for sale

Craigslist News

Three women are facing prostitution charges after soliciting customers on Craigslist, a community classifieds and forum Web site.

An Alameda woman told police that a couple who contacted her after she advertised camera equipment for sale on the Web site craigslist.org stole the items from her.

The classified advertisements range from traditional buy/sell ads and community announcements, to personal ads and even "erotic services".  Bad Credit Financing | FBI Background Checks | Tactical and Spy Stuff

Although the company does not disclose financial information, journalists have speculated that its annual revenue approached $10 million in 2004. Craigslist Houston TX