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A comment on What We Can Learn From Mess (known as Craigslist).

Re:What We Can Learn From Mess (known as Craigslist) by ecq on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @01:42AM (#786644)
Craigslist succeeded because there is an ecosystem of people that makes it useful. buyers/sellers, job hunters/head hunters and so on. The same reason eBay is successful.
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Re:What We Can Learn From Mess (known as Craigslist) by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @09:13AM (#787092)
But Craigslist beat others in establishing theirselves as the hub of that ecosystems; they didn't just buy the domain name and have all those groups of people there the next day.
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Re:What We Can Learn From Mess (known as Craigslist) by ecq on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @12:12PM (#787436)
I agree. first-mover advantage plays a big role as well.
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