CRAIGSLIST popularity and CRAIGSLIST trends

mikejuk writes "The craigslist Charitable Fund has donated $100,000 to the Perl community for Perl5 maintenance and general use by the Perl Foundation. Craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month and it is mostly written in Perl. The entire architecture of the system is open source — a proxy array based on Perl and memcache and a backend provided by Apache, memcache, MySQL and, of cour...

Justin Adams, who has been arrested for double murder, told Oklahoma County jailors he thought about killing himself when his wife Jaymie (pictured) went missing after meeting a client.

If you're anything like me, you like to keep your fleet of private jets up to date. But selling an old Airbus on Craigslist can be a pain, so artist Paul Coudamy hacks them apart and turns them into hanging lamps. More »

Since promising the paparazzi yet another set of 10 million pictures of her frolicking around on the beach in a bikini doesn't seal the deal anymore, Vanessa Hudgens promised them a little something more like a totally natural and not-at-all staged OHMYGAH MY TITS ARE FALLING OUT OF MY TOP LIKE I PRACTICED ALL DAY OHMYEFRON STOP STOP NO I'M JOKING KEEP GOING OHMYGAH WILL A LITTLE NIP SLI...

The hackers and engineers of Y Combinator are doing what hackers and engineers do to any industry, they’re efficiently and ruthlessly disrupting the traditional model of venture capital and are going to destroy far more more wealth for their contemporaries than they create for themselves, as broadband did to entertainment, Craigslist did to newspapers, and [...]

The accused trigger man in the slayings of three men who answered a Craigslist ad for work on a cattle farm pleaded not guilty Wednesday, officials in Ohio said.

The man suspected in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

A San Marcos man was arrested on suspicion of selling iPhone boxes stuffed with tiles to unsuspecting customers he met on Craigslist, police said Tuesday. Luther Clayborn Dawson, 41, was charged with four counts of grand theft Monday after detectives spotted him allegedly selling an Irvine man iPhone boxes that each contained a rectangular ceramic tile and user's manual, the Irvine Police ...

Megaupload, the file sharing website that was shut down Thursday, may have returned — but without a domain name. This new site appears t…

Ob es nun eine Folge des demonstrativen Online-Protests war, oder ob Lobbying hinter verschlossenen Türen auch eine Rolle gespielt hat, wäre zwar noch zu klären, aber fest steht, dass der politische Rückhalt fuer zwei Internet-Urheberschutzgesetze nach dem Blackout von Wikipedia, Craigslist und - zumindest symbolisch - Google für die (im Kern vergleichbaren) Gesetzesentwürfe Stop Online Piracy ...

Support for two online piracy bills in Congress appeared to wane Wednesday after opponents of the legislation staged a dramatic protest in which vast swaths of the Web effectively went dark. Visitors to Wikipedia who tried to search the online encyclopedia’s usually trivia-filled pages were instead greeted by a message informing them that the bills could “fatally damage the free and open Intern...

Wikipedia, Google and Craigslist are among the websites joining a protest about proposed anti-piracy legislation in the United States.

If you've ever tried to find an apartment with your friends, you've probably had a moment where you thought that there has to be something better than sites like Craigslist. A new startup called SocialRent aims to be that something better. The SocialRent team's first product, a Facebook app, is only addressing one small part of the apartment search, but it seems like a solid start toward tackli...

Personal ads are ‘just so full of stories and weirdness and all the evidence of humanity,’ says co-creator Bill Richardson

A Santa Ana man pleaded not guilty Friday to attempting to start a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl on Craigslist who turned out not to exist. Oscar Zamora Pinedo, 35, is charged with one felony count each of contacting...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A blind dog that was lost and believed to be dead is reunited with his San Antonio family for Christmas, thanks to Craigslist, a school teacher and an animal care agency. Nearly a month after Stevie Oedipus Wonder disappeared — and was reported dead — the cairn terrier mix puppy is home for the holiday, the San Antonio Express-News reported Saturday (http:...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Community" fans are planning a flash mob at Rockefeller Center on Thursday afternoon to save the show, which has been pulled from NBC's midseason schedule. Show devotees plan to gather at 30 Rock at 1 p.m. for the event, which is being promoted via #OccupyNBC and #SaveCommunity hashtags on Twitter. Organizers are also spreading the word with a Craigslist announcemen...

A joint letter from the founders of Yahoo, Netscape, Google, Blogger, Twitter, the Internet Archive, Wikipedia, the Huffington Post, PayPal, Mozilla, Flickr, YouTube, Craigslist, eBay, and other pieces of Internet history tells Congress: "Let's not deny the next generation of entrepreneurs and founders the same opportunities we all had." Have you called Congress yet?

For a really wild and unpredictable cornucopia of random at a bachelor party, you must turn to the one true center of miscellaneous ... Craigslist!

A teenager charged with murder in a Craigslist robbery scheme said in a letter to his father that he believed God would keep him from a long incarceration.

A Craigslist ad seeking "seat-fillers" for the game was exposed as a hoax, yet it highlighted a real issue: Is Indy a college football town?

Officials in Noble County, in rural southern Ohio, were alerted to the crimes after one man escaped with a gunshot wound to his arm.

'Contracts' are simply for the holiday season and relationships will be terminated on New Year's day.

Error message claims free classifieds site is down due to violations of Craigslist's own terms of service

The mother of a 16-year-old boy arrested in Ohio over the deaths of three men responding to a Craigslist jobs advert tells US media her son is innocent.

A BODY found in a shallow grave is that of a man missing more than a week after he answered an online classified ad.

Authorities today found two bodies in Ohio that could be linked to a robbery-murder plot that lured victims with a phony Craigslist job ad.

I recently re-watched the first season of HBO's "Bored to Death" (Mondays 9 p.m./8 central) -- created by novelist and newspaper columnist Jonathan Ames -- and was struck by how much it has changed. Between 2009 and now, the show's point-of-view has stayed more or less the same, but the tone, pace and emphases are different. The pilot, which showed Ames' self-named, white-wine-guzzling pothead ...

A jobseeker from Florida responding to a bogus Craigslist ad for a job on an Ohio cattle farm was found dead and another from South Carolina was shot but escaped by running away through the woods, a sheriff said Thursday.