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4 months ago

in eBay and Craigslist: A fox in the henhouse on Mathew's comments
just to clarify: according to ebay's complaint, craigslist did subsequent dilutions of ebay's share of craigslist: the dilution to 25.01% came about in 2005 when employees were given stock options; further dilution to under 25% happened more recently and prompted ebay's law suit.
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mathewi Thanks for clarifying that, Delia -- I meant to add that to the original post.

4 months ago

in eBay and Craigslist: A fox in the henhouse on Mathew's comments
oops! that way *ebay* (NOT craigslist): Craig& Jim diluted ebay's share of craigslist D.

4 months ago

in eBay and Craigslist: A fox in the henhouse on Mathew's comments
little detail: ebay hasn't *always* claimed they got 28.4 % (which is closer to 30% 30% than 25%) , they initially claimed it was "approimatively 25%" (ebay press release at the time), which fit Craig's//craigslist's story. I find it intriguing that according to the complaint, Craig&Jim deluted craigslist to 25.01% (which definitely qualifies as "approximately 25%" as ebay initially said...) D.
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Delia just to clarify: according to ebay's complaint, craigslist did subsequent dilutions of ebay's share of craigslist: the dilution to 25.01% came about in 2005 when employees were given stock options; further dilution to under 25% happened more recently and prompted ebay's law suit.

4 months ago

in eBay and Craigslist: A fox in the henhouse on Mathew's comments
why on earth aren't people pointing this out? I mean, The New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press... they must have noticed the difference, no? D.

4 months ago

in eBay and Craigslist: A fox in the henhouse on Mathew's comments
Matthew,

I'm just curious... how do you suppose ebay got more than 25% of craigslist? that wasn't Craig's / craigslist's story was it?

Delia
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mathewi I'm not sure, Delia -- Craig has always said that eBay had 25 per
cent, but eBay has always claimed it was 28 per cent.

5 months ago

in Craiglist vs. craigslist blogger, round three on Mathew's comments
Matthew,

Caigslist shouldn't have any claim to the craigslistblog.org and should have lost all claims to the craigslist.org domain when they turned for profit, *way back*, (unfortunately the dot org domain remains unregulated so craigslist still gets away with redirecting traffic from craigslist.com to craigslist.org continuing to give the appearance that craigslist is still a non-profit).

Delia

10 months ago

in Craigslist: Your data belongs to you on Mathew's comments
Mathew,

that's vague and ambiguous: what's "generally" doing in that statement? re: "we *generally* don’t view information submitted by our users as data to be used for other purposes" (my emphasis); as usual, I think you are taken for a ride...

Delia

P.S. take care, anyways! D.

1 year ago

in Robots, crowds or editors? Yes. on Mathew's comments
Mathew, I think Craig is an *investor* in Daylife (saying that he "has helped financially" gives the wrong idea that he is a *donor* of some sort...) D.
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