11 Other Localish Companies Google Might Buy
Performance Marketing
Early this week news broke that Google is acquiring the venerable guidebook publisher Frommer's. That comes on the heels of the search giant's eye-opening deal to purchase Zagat last year.
Craigslist and Kutcher Make ‘Best Roommate Ever’ a Star
Creativity
It might cost him the very job that sent him apartment hunting in San Francisco, but we have a feeling Wade "Best Roommate Ever" Cothran will do OK for himself. [...]
Backpage.com a Hit, Filling Craigslist Sex Ad Void
Brand Marketing
Craigslist shuttering its Adult Services section has been a boon for Village Voice Media, the New York Observer reports.
Copywriter really, really wants his bike back
Creativity
You know it's a good Craigslist ad when it starts out: "Some assmaster stole my custom made, heavy, rusty Bologna bike at 10th & C last night." The aggrieved author [...]
It’s never good when a Craigslist ad is news
Creativity
Remember when a funny prank to play on someone was sending pizza to their address? Yeah, now it's telling the world there's an orgy going on there, when there isn't. [...]