Posts Tagged with ‘craigslist’

Spinlets May Be a Tool for Every Site

Phil Butler

Spinlets is another great tool being developed in an invitation only beta environment. The new service will allow users a practical, easy to use, customizable and best of all a free platform for rich media API integration into web pages and blogs. The Spinlet API features a library of customization tools that enable seamless integration of media while providing “mashup” capability and enhanced content portability. The current Spinlets available for testing include YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Twitter, Craigslist and Google Maps with [...]

Facebook - Free Classifieds With Profiles

Phil Butler

The 22 million users of Facebook will have access to free classified ad listings as the social networking site enters into competition with traditional newspapers and online companies like Craigslist. The company is targeting the high school and college segment of their user base to offer yet another feature that will appeal to this demographic. Users will now be able to advertise themselves to the world at perhaps the world's fastest growing social networking site.
The new service will be called Marketplace, [...]

Go BIG Startup Network Opens ‘Projects’

Paul Glazowski

Go BIG, a network of startup companies, in which expert entrepreneurs and advisors offer tips to budding businesses and angel investors and venture capitalists, whether solo or with the backing of whole firms, get easily connected to promising operations, is having an official launch of a new feature called Projects, today.
Go BIG Projects is a new venue created for the creators (an apology for the redundancy) of startups to acquire the brainpower they need to turn ideas into products [...]

Snarfer Feed Aggregator

Phil Butler

Alien News Vacuum Revealed! Snarfer - Changing to Suit Humans.  
We review a great number of communities, startups, gadgets and other technology related to Web 2.0, but I have never really thought of reviewing something that I use to find some of this stuff. Snarfer is a friendly RSS manager that sits down there in my system tray just waiting to gobble (well actually he snorts) up news from around the world.
Snarfer is a feed aggregator that is really fast, diversified and simple [...]

Google Seeks a ‘Legal Eagle’

Paul Glazowski

Though Google wants to cozy up to Big Media as best it can, the monster from Mountain View is suiting up in the finest armor just in case a battle ensues between itself and its stubborn, reclusive Hollywood “partners.”
Friday, news hit Red Herring, a technology weekly, about Google’s quest for a “high-level legal eagle.” The company did the super-conventional thing and posted a help-wanted ad for a lawyer adept in wading through intellectual property and digital media law legalese. [...]