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Craigslist Presentation
- Introduction
- This is craig
- use this for motivation on why this system exists by explaining history
- community information and board
- archive.org shots of where this is all going
From craigslist about:
What works * Giving people a voice * A sense of trust and even intimacy * Consistency of down-to-earth values * Simplicity * No charges, except for job postings * Freshness of the material * No ads, particularly no banner ads
system-user relationships
- No Setup
Minimal aesthetic extends into system-user relationship. other sites feed you sighnup form after sighnup form and ask for your email, your address, whether they can send you emails, whether other people can send you emails, almost enough to make you just leave the internet behind grow a beard and make chairs with the amish.
- Access Immediately
- account signup forms (graphic)
- User Signup Form
- Familiarity
- Minimalism
- Anonymity
system-environment relationships
- Community
- Space Messages
- Job Search
- Most effective
- No Liability
- User Moderation
system-internal considerations
- Technical
- Now
- Future
- Business
- Now
- Future
- Social
- Now
- Future