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Long Island mom uses Craigslist to retaliate against 9-year-old

Kim LaCapria — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:31:31 +0000

A 40-year-old Long Island social worker is accused of using Craigslist’s adult section to mete out vengeance in a dispute between 4th graders.

Hauppauge mother Margery Tannenbaum is facing charges of aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child after posting a salicious ad on the site known for its naughty “casual encounters” hookup sections. Tannenbaum posted an ad with the email “” along with the 9-year-old girl’s real name and phone number. The victim’s mother reports than men called in response to the ad, asking for the little girl.

Tannenbaum’s daughter attends the same Smithtown elementary school as the girl, and Tannenbaum was class parent for both girls last year. In light of the charges, which indicate seriously impaired judgment, the Suffolk County DA is asking the state to review Tannenbaum’s license to practice social work. Tannenbaum maintains her innocence in the case, and her lawyer commented to press:

“She’s a good mother, she’s never been in any trouble before, she takes good care of her kids,” he told CBS 2. ”I’m defending her to the fullest, she maintains her innocence.”

“Charming children’s bracelet” found on Craigslist

Kim LaCapria — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:20:21 +0000

I saw that brand new at Toys in Babeland cheaper…

[I Heart Chaos]

When mistresses attack… with superglue

Kim LaCapria — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:00:14 +0000

An unidentified man found himself on the business end of four angry, jilted women in a motel room and ended up with a superglued penis.

The ambush was allegedly orchestrated by one of the four women- the man’s wife. She apparently tired of his philandering ways and tracked down as many of the other women her husband was sleeping with as she could. Therese Ziemann, 48, is one of the accused and met the man on Craigslist. Last Wednesday, Ziemann met the man’s wife and also learned that he had several other girlfriends. During their relationship, she’d paid for all their hotel stays and also given the man $3,000.

By Thursday, the plan was in motion. Ziemann, her sister, the man’s wife and another of his lovers, Wendy Sewell, arranged for a tryst at a local hotel. Ziemann bound the man under the auspices of a sensual massage and summoned her new friends via text message. She then assaulted the man and superglued his penis to his abdomen.

When the man began screaming, his attackers fled with his wallet, phone and car. Police were summoned, and now all four women, including his missus, face various charges including false imprisonment.

There is no word yet on the extent of the man’s injuries. While a speedy recovery would be one thing, perhaps a speedy learning of his lesson might be more appropriate. Not that I condone superglueing penises.

[Source: Guardian, Image: Transitiology]

Guy Posts Craigslist Ad Selling Pot – Gets busted For Selling Pot

Paul Short — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:24:45 +0000

I guess when your mom told you that smoking pot would destroy your brain cells, she was right.

A Man in Quincy Mass. posted an ad on the classified site Craigslist recently advertising that he had Marijuana for sale. The ad stated “420 help is here. Give me a ring if you need some help.” and listed his phone number in the ad. Naturally, police called the number and arranged a meeting with the man. When they showed up at his house, the undercover police officer purchased a small amount of marijuana, and arrested him for dealing.

420 is an old code used by people who smoke pot and is believed to have originated at a California high school in the early 1970’s to let people know what time of day students would be gathering near the school after class to smoke up.

If you’re selling pot, best not to advertise the fact on Craigslist

Duncan Riley — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:24:54 +0000

A Massachusetts man has been arrested for selling marijuana after he advertised his services on Craigslist.

The ad Christopher Gray posted was headlined “420 help is here” and said “Give me a ring if you need some help.” 420 is a term used to signify pot. Police took him up on the offer, and Gray handed over a small bag of pot in exchange for $45 before being arrested.

According to Fox Boston, Gray was unavailable for comment.

Search for that perfect apartment on your iPhone

Steven Hodson — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:38:50 +0000

Sometimes there is nothing worse than have to go out and find a new apartment what with having to hunt through all those ads and make all the phone calls to make appointments as well as actually having to find the apartment to view it. If you are finding yourself in this situation then you just might want to grab yourself a copy of Padmapper a free web based application that takes Craigslist apartment listings and puts them on Google maps.

Now for iPhone folks the people behind Padmapper have also made an iPhone application available as well. From the developer we get this snippet of info

Instead of having a big list and then using a map as a helper for the list, like most of the real estate sites, I threw out the list and gave the map as much room as possible. When you pan, PadMapper loads new listings automatically in the background. When you zoom out, PadMapper loads the surrounding areas, when you zoom in, PadMapper loads more listings for that smaller area. You can start your search at a high level, and then zoom in as you figure out what areas appeal to you more. If you’re particularly interested in a place, you can zoom in very close, and nearby restaurants, bars, shopping and more will show up on the map (in most cities), and you can click on them to see their Yelp Ratings. Or, you can save that listing to your favorites list for later.

[hat tip to apartment therapy]

Craigslist working with law enforcement authorities to prevent illegal activities

Dominic Rivera — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:24:48 +0000

Craigslist is working with attorneys general of more than 40 US states and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), to prevent online communities and classified ads from being misused for the facilitation of human trafficking, child exploitation, and other illegal activities.

Craigslist recently implemented a telephone verification system for the “erotic services” section of the site, requiring a working phone number for advertisers, and enabling blacklisting of phone numbers for those who post inappropriate ads. Phone verification resulted in an 80% reduction in ad volume, and significantly increased compliance with site guidelines.

Craigslist will soon require credit card verification and a small fee per ad for posting in “erotic services,” to further encourage compliance with site guidelines. Paid ads that violate site guidelines will be removed without refund. The company intends to donate 100% of net revenue generated from these ads to charity, with net revenue to be verified by an external auditor.

The end goal should be to avoid this, this, this, and this.

Arzoola Launches Facebook Phone App

JR — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:47:31 +0000

Arzoola has now launched its free private call platform for Facebook.

We first wrote about the company’s Social Call tool earlier this month when its HTML-driven Craigslist application — now rebranded as Private Call — came out. The Facebook utility offers the same service, just specifically catered to Facebook profiles.

Basically, Social Call gives you anonymous VOIP capabilities. You give the company your phone number and put the app on your page. It then lets anyone click to call you, without ever having access to your number. The program also lets you set parameters for when you want to receive calls, so you could tell it to only patch people through between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., for example.

The thing we initially liked about this application is its versatility. Certainly the Facebook platform adds a social element, but its HTML-based brother program could also have interesting uses for business purposes, or even for letting visitors to a blog/web site contact you only during specific times and without having to publicly post your phone number.

Arzoola’s CEO swears to us the service will remain free, though he says it will likely feature pre-call ads and optional “premium” extras in the future.

Top 20 Web 2.0 Services

JR — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:10:17 +0000

Ever wonder who’s on top when it comes to Web 2.0 services? Hitwise Intelligence has some answers.

The research company has released a list of the top 20 Web 2.0 sites based on U.S. visits in July. It used Wikipedia’s definition of a service designed “to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.”

Drumroll, please…

1. MySpace — 44.14% market share
2. eBay — 16.22% market share
3. Facebook — 13.03% market share
4. YouTube — 9.88% market share
5. Wikipedia — 4.76% market share
6. Craigslist — 3.14% market share
7. Yahoo Answers — 1.41% market share
8. myYearbook — 1.05% market share
9. Tagged — .95% market share
10. Flickr — .86% market share
11. Bebo — .71% market share
12. Meebo — .59% market share
13. BlackPlanet.com — .52% market share
14. GaiaOnline.com — .45% market share
15. Blogger — .40% market share
16. Adam4Adam — .35% market share
17. hi5 — .35% market share
18. WikiAnswers — .33% market share
19. IMEEM — .31% market share
20. LiveJournal — .30% market share

Hitwise points out that many of these are still independent and non-acquired. Also of note: Digg did not receive enough traffic to crack the top 20, according to the analysts.

Arzoola: A New Voice In Social Network Communication

JR — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:47:01 +0000

A startup just launched over the weekend is giving an added voice to the world of social networking.

Arzoola’s Social Call lets you make and receive free VOIP-powered calls through social network-specific apps. What sets it apart from other services is the fact that it lets you do so anonymously: Users give out their phone numbers only to Arzoola, which then masks them from public view.

“We simply act as an intermediary, shielding the phone numbers from each party,” CEO Roie Edery explained to The Inquisitr. “Instead of posting your phone number online, you substitute it with our ‘Call Me’ link.”

The first application, launched Saturday, is designed with Craigslist in mind. You just go to Arzoola’s web site, enter your phone number, zip code, and an expiration time (i.e. only accept calls for two days) — then it gives you code to post within your listing. The code lets anyone click to call you without ever gaining access to your phone number. While the tool is being marketed specifically for use on Craigslist, it could be used anywhere you can post HTML embed code — on a MySpace profile, for example, or on a blog where you wanted to receive calls for a limited period of time without divulging your digits.

Next up is an app for Facebook, which Edery tells us will be launching “very soon” — likely within the next week or two, pending the network’s approval. It will add a “Call Me” button directly below your profile picture and will let you specify what days and times to let calls be patched through.

All the applications use a business-grade VOIP carrier. As of now, the calls are totally ad-free. Edery says that could change in the future — but end users will always be able to use the service free-of-charge.

“Our focus is to provide this service for free,” he said. “Once adoption picks up, it is our intent to enable our audio advertising platform. Basically, while a user is on hold waiting for us to call the other party, they will hear an ad.”

Arzoola’s Social Call will also eventually offer premium services such as voicemail and number-free text messaging, Edery tells us.

Our vote: A smart service with strong potential. The Facebook/MySpace/Bebo apps could draw people in and provide a powerful and convenient social function without the typical privacy concerns. The HTML-driven function, though, is what strikes us as most intriguing about Social Call. It’d be a huge plus to be able to receive calls on a public posting for a limited window, without having to throw your actual number on the page for the world to see. The blogosphere could stand to benefit from its embeddable functionability — think of the easy-to-click “news tip hotlines” or “talk with me now” features that could be set up to let visitors dial a blogger’s cell phone during certain hours, without him having to publicly post the number.

eBay vs Craigslist: Craig Strikes Back

Duncan Riley — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:51:16 +0000

craigslist vs eBay – Upload a doc

Craigslist has filed a complaint in the Superior Court in San Francisco today, charging eBay with unlawful and unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information, deceptive passing-off, business interference, false advertising, phishing attacks, free-riding, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and breaches of fiduciary duty. The complaint follows eBay suing Craigslist April 30 with allegations that Craigslist had unfairly diluted eBay’s shareholding.

According to a post on the Craigslist blog (and buried in the document above), Craigslist is asking the court to enjoin this conduct and order eBay to (1) make full restitution to craigslist, (2) disgorge their related profits (3) restore to craigslist all shares of the company acquired by means of, or for the purpose of unfair competition, and (4) pay punitive damages for their malicious behavior.

If you’ve got the time, the document makes for interesting reading. If it reaches court, covering this is going to be fun.

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