Competition for Craig? Last month, a friend sent an invitation to join Kaboo in Chicago, a free online classifieds site. We responded but haven't gotten into it yet. Have any AT readers used Kaboo? Let us know...
Kaboo in Chicago
There are 8 main categories for Chicago: free stuff, for sale, housing, services, stories, community, romance and events and classes.
From their "about us" section:
"If we thought craigslist would be the only ones providing free classifieds online, we'd be happy to cheer them on and go work on other socially responsible online ideas. But the big, public Internet companies have the online classifieds business, and craigslist, in their sights. At the same time, craigslist isn't innovating quickly on their technology or feature set or accelerating their growth beyond basic word of mouth and PR. Soon, one of the huge Internet companies -- missing the stewardship gene -- will be #2 to craigslist, and then perhaps #1. We'd like Kaboo to offer you an alternative to that future: a free, easy, colorful service combined with honest stewardship, real social awareness and a healthy disregard for the bottom line.
So please tell your friends and neighbors about us. Our goal is to make a difference in the world, town by town, so that in 10 years, we all look around and say, "I'm glad it's Kaboo and craigslist and not someone else."
End of monologue. :) "
Check it out: chicago.kaboo.org
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There's no reason to choose this thing over craigslist though. Craigslist has bulletin boards with a huge user base that's expanding daily. This thing is identical (except for the color scheme). It's a copy that adds nothing relevant. In fact, it looks like it was made by some guy jotting down html in notepad.
Their site won't prevent big business from trying to get a piece of the action. If anything, by diluting the free classifieds market, they help to give big business a reason to try and create a unified place for people to go for classifieds - because the most important thing for classifieds is the number of people who will see the ads. It doesn't make sense to post an ad where few people will see it (excluding targeted demographics and such).
Luckily, we already have craigslist.
It didn't look like you could search it (I just looked briefly at the housing section) and noticed that they have discriminatory postings (Looking for Female Roommates Only or some such) which craigslist has banned.
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Another site for posting free local classifieds if Freeified.com .. http://www.freeified.com ... It has a nice user interface and is real easy to use. I chose it over Craigslist because it isn't so bland.
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