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Jan 15, 2006

"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers." --Adlai E. Stevenson

The Community of Commerce

Craigslist may be breathing down the necks of Google and Ebay with well over three billion page views a month (7th largest on the internet), but it still retains an almost anti-profit business model, employing just 19 people working in a San Francisco living room. Craig Newmark, the founder of the no-frill community website, attributes its growth and popularity to the common desire for urban dwellers to help each other.