November 30, 2009
I get very frustrated whenever I’m looking for legitimate ways to generate additional streams of income, and I come across those horrid get-rich-quick sales pages. You know the ones – where the author can’t seem to decide on a single font size, and every other word is in bold. All you have to do is sign [...]
November 29, 2009
Craigslist.org is an online wanted ads site that’s been around for a bit. It’s a great tool if you are looking to buy something second hand. As mentioned in other MakeUseOf articles, its design leaves something to be desired but there is no doubt to its usefulness. There are some irritations such as the absence of pictures [...]
August 21, 2009
Where do you turn when you need to find apartments for rent? Do you go to your local real estate agent? Do you grab the newspaper every day? Maybe you ask your friends – or beg and plead? Everyone knows that your first stop should be CraigsList regardless of where you live. I have found [...]
April 8, 2009
With the economy in such a poor state, more and more people are finding it extremely hard to find a job. Sadly, it can literally take months to even be contacted about a job let alone find one, thus resulting in the job hunting blues. Even though it can get extremely frustrating (I know first [...]
March 16, 2009
Created by ex-Excite executives Craig Donato, Scott Kister and Faith Sedlin, Oodle offers a significantly better experience than Craigslist. Reported to be the fastest expanding classifieds website, Oodle might just be Craigslist’s nemesis. In addition to powering classifieds listings to several major newspapers, it recently welcomed Facebook Marketplace, AOL Classifieds as well as MySpace to [...]
February 19, 2009
One of the most powerful and popular online classified ad websites is clearly Craigslist. In Google Trends, search patterns for Craigslist far surpass those for other free ad services such as Kijiji or USFreeAds. Much of the power of the multitude of Craigslists are that while they certainly cover local communities, the lists are spread [...]
January 20, 2009
Ah, Craigslist. That oddly-named, terribly-designed, mind-blowingly useful website. I have quite the love-hate relationship with Craigslist. It’s got a ton of information and a ton of users, but without any kind of standard for what to put in a post, what to include and exclude, etc. it can be difficult to find what you’re actually [...]
July 1, 2008
There are so many websites now where you can search for real estate and each one has their own quirks, foibles, specialties and value to people looking to find a home. It seems that each week another one pops up. You can search these sites by geographic area, price, size, room count and much more. [...]
