• Craigslist, Coming Soon In A Language Near You

    Thursday, March 27th, 2008

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    The Craigslist phenomenon continues, and it isn’t just in English any more.

    The site dominates the U.S. market for classified advertisements, with nearly 27 million unique monthly visitors (Ebay’s Kijiji, by contrast, has just 2.3 million U.S. visitors/month). But the fact that the service was available only in English hurt it internationally, where Kijiji is a close second.

    Craigslist is now available in Italian, French, Portuguese and German. “Basque, maybe Klingon” are coming soon. :-)

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