{"id":85,"date":"2005-11-30T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2005\/11\/30\/online-classifieds-become-a-battleground\/"},"modified":"2005-11-30T16:57:24","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T16:57:24","slug":"online-classifieds-become-a-battleground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/11\/30\/online-classifieds-become-a-battleground\/","title":{"rendered":"Online classifieds become a battleground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online-classified service Craigslist.com is extremely popular, with close to 9 million unique visitors in September <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ibd\/051110\/tech.html?.v=1\">according to some estimates<\/a>. So how much is it worth? (figuring out how much various Web services are worth seems to have become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business2.com\/b2\/web\/articles\/0,17863,1135200-1,00.html\">a new sport<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Based on Om Malik&#8217;s rough rule of thumb from recent deals for companies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\">MySpace.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\">Weblogs Inc.<\/a>, which he said produced an average value of $38 (U.S.) per unique monthly visitor, Craigslist would be worth about $330-million (by way of comparison, that&#8217;s about 16.5 times the company&#8217;s revenue, which is higher than the range that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calacanis.com\/2005\/11\/29\/ok-lets-stop-the-bubble-machine-right-now\/\">Jason Calacanis thinks is reasonable<\/a> for an online property, but a lot less than the almost 70 times revenue eBay agreed to pay for Skype, based on the $4.1-billion price tag).<\/p>\n<p>The value of Craigslist might be about to go down, however, as the online classified game heats up. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/base.google.com\">Google Base<\/a>, for example, which admittedly is rather confusing to use and therefore perhaps less of a threat (or <a href=\"http:\/\/billburnham.blogs.com\/burnhamsbeat\/2005\/11\/rss_and_google_.html\">more<\/a>, depending on who you believe). And then there&#8217;s a little company whose name begins with &#8220;Micro&#8221; and ends in &#8220;soft.&#8221; The behemoth from Redmond is rumoured to be launching a new online-classified style service codenamed &#8220;Fremont,&#8221; according to various sources, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2005\/11\/28\/microsoft-fremont\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online-classified service Craigslist.com is extremely popular, with close to 9 million unique visitors in September according to some estimates. So how much is it worth? (figuring out how much various Web services are worth seems to have become a new sport). Based on Om Malik&#8217;s rough rule of thumb from recent deals for companies such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/11\/30\/online-classifieds-become-a-battleground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Online classifieds become a battleground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}