We just got an email from Meg: "Listen up. Mr. Craigslist has blocked Listpic! What!? How will we search for our beloved treasures to fill our homes? Must we....gasp.....go back to reading every line item, click on the link, our hopes rise, our hearts race....only to find an item nothing like the description, or worse....no picture at all!"
This is sad news - we love (d?) Listpic - it made doing the daily AT:Chicago Scavengers a whole new experience for Heather and me.
We're sure many AT readers are NOT going to be happy to hear this...let us know in the comments below if you are a list pic user....
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Comments (17)
argh.
my daily browsing has come to a severe stop.
lame. lame. oh so lame.
so sad.
Oh god, there's no way I'm clicking on every link. Listpic was invaluable. Unless craigslist is planning on implementing their own form of the listpic, this is a horrible decision.
BASTARDS - I love litpic, now I'm lost without it.
Am I the only person that didn't know about Listpic? ...all this time I've been clicking my way through Craigslist. What was I thinking?!
That was just a really foolish move. This site is good advertising FOR Craigslist. Lots of people (like me) did not know about Craigslist until coming to this site. It also goes a long way toward reminding people about using Craigslist. If someone is looking for something special, this demographic cues into this website to look for it. The Listpic also pulls people to think of WHERE to buy in addition to the clever space ideas etc... I assume that is why the other advertisers (who pay to be on this site) find the price worth it. Craigslist is likely to lose business from this demographic with free daily PROMINENT exposure and reinforcement of the values they can offer. Someone at Craigslist is very, very foolish.
Oh. I forgot to add that I am three hours South of Chicago between the new markets they are trying to start in Champaign and Terre Haute. Very, very foolish.
aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhh...i can only hope that craigslist will make some sort of deal to implement the code that makes listpic possible on their own site (after paying a nice sum to Ryan for his trouble creating something so cool, of course).
mviamontes - I didn't know about it either. DC craigslist is pretty lame IMHO, so I don't visit that often, unless I'm selling something (but my stuff's not lame ;D). I can't even check listpic out because there's nothing there now.
Boomer:
At this point I can guarantee than everyone from Craigslist is watching this site to ensure there are no "violations" and wll follow these threads as well. They will be trying to gauge how much overlap and how much business they will be losing. I do not think they have anyway other than this site to measure that as their own lists are so much larger at this time. However, the bounce I just saw on the NY AP classifieds was interesting. They are forcing a competition where they did not need to do so. very, very foolish.
PS.Thanks again for the advise. I really do appreciate it.
Wow, this sux since i'll effectively cease and desist my use of Craigslist without the ease of looking that Listpic provided.
So, I guess I don't get it...How is ListPic infringing upon Craig's money making? Seems like Ryan's product makes Craigslist more user-friendly so that more commerce can happen. Seems if Craig weren't so short-sighted, he'd hire Ryan for a lot of money to work together for the good of both. But sometimes cutting off your nose to spite your face is fun.
Boomer,
I just read both media pieces you supplied and I found the first one to be unbiased and the second one clearly states they thought ListPic was a great complement to Craigslist.
As far as taking sides with Craigslist, I thought the coverage was amazingly kind to ListPic considering that it is an acknowledged hack, therefore without a doubt, illegal.
I am very sad that Craigslist has blocked Listpic. I really hope they work something out to bring it back (using Craigslist, not that other lame site with hardly any ads).
This no doubt craigslist offers the best localized classifieds on the net - however the interface is a little dated compared to the emerging web 2.0 interfaces.
As a pet project I have taken up the challenge of implemented Craigslist on how I would want it - leveraging excepted usability methodologies and stardard technogies.
I have also attempted to comply to Craigslist posted terms of use.
the project my be found using the following url:
www.mycraigslist.com
well just my 2 cents...
irieb
ps:
the site may seem a little slow somtime; only because it is hosted on a small server with limited bandwidth
ListPic is a very cool mashup. It is an inspiration to many of the free craigslist tool I created.
You can check them out at http://www.craigslistcompanion.com
I have got a visual craigslist browser, visual craigslist multiple city search, a craigslist hitcounter and a firefox extension which I name CLPicView.
CLPicView also works with http://www.craigslist-search.com to bring multi craigslist city search with picture previews.
@mviamontes -- Me, too! I am dismayed when I total up all the time I've spent clicking through pic links. I hope the poster who suggested that perhaps Craigslist is planning to implement a similar function themselves is right.