Dave is still waiting for a Craigslist to show up for Central Oregon. Though I can’t find any reports that they’re planning on adding 100 cities (do you have a link, Dave?), the nearest thing we have right now is BendStuff, which started up last week (something I’ve been wanting to start, but just haven’t had the time/domain). Obviously it’s not very populated right now, but the guy running the site seems like a nice enough fella (and he’s a local, unlike some folks who own some local sites). Be sure to check it out until Craig decides to open up shop here. If that ever happens and I were the guy running BendStuff, I’d just shut down then — you just can’t compete with Craig.
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Both Dave and BendStuff need an Rss feed.
Dave’s RSS feed is right here:
http://dkgoodman.com/blog.xml
Just because it’s not really obvious on his site (or anybodys, for that matter) he has the autodiscovery tags on his site (as you do on yours) so you just can plug in the main url of the site (in this case, http://dkgoodman.com/blog.html) into your feed reader and your feed reader should automatically pull the RSS feed without you having to hunt it down.
I don’t think that bendstuff.com has an RSS feed, but I’ll mention it to the webmaster and see if he can get one enabled (I know his blog at my.bendstuff.com has one).
Link about craigslist:
http://www.google.com/search?en&q=craigslist+100%2Enew%2Ecities
My atom feed: http://dkgoodman.com/blog.xml
My RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/eMusings
Don’t say I didn’t feed you. 😉
http://www.google.com/search?q=craigslist+100.cities
New and improved, with more hits! 😉
Well, Bloglines didn’t pick it up when I put his site in.
Feed Yourself!
There are feeds for specific categories, but not for all posts at this time (i’ll get one going), check out a individual category and see the rss links:
http://bendstuff.com/xzclf/1/posts/3_General_Merchandise/0/
Figures, Dave: I searched google news, but didn’t search the actual google results. Duh…
Mrs. H, Bloglines must have been having a bad hair day. I use Bloglines myself, and when I tried it just now it had no trouble discovering the two feeds on my blog.
There’s a “Subscribe with Bloglines” button in my sidebar under “About Me” and if you click that, it should add eMusings to your bloglist.
*whistles innocently*
http://bend.craigslist.org/
Wow, does my site get shortest lived ever award or something?!
Is this craigs way of telling me I need to look for a new career path?
Why is the sky blue?
Craigslist Comes To Bend
I knew I’d see the day, but not this soon. Bendstuff, who I mentioned before, has already shut down. But if I were local media who rely on classified ad…
I just bought and installed a very nice craigslist clone – looks great – at http://adcenter-usa.com/classifieds
The program is well written but the support is poor at this time. They stopped the help desk and the forums for support offer little help on most issues and sometimes for a fee.
A program this well written could charge a little more for the script (I have an unlimited domain license for $24.00) but there are a few bugs they either don’t address or don’t answer in anyway an average webmaster could fix. I have 16 websites – american-cities-network.com is typical of them – but when a person asks “why won’t the program send me a confirmation email – they get an answer like “you might have to edit the myfetch in your mysql database – who on earth would know how to do that.
Here’s hoping this company snetworks.biz will get cracking and realize that support is every bit as important as the script itself and with the brilliant writing of this code – you can sure fix the little bugs that come up. Please let me know what you think. [email protected]
yes support is very important i recently baught the same script at http://www.craigslistclones.com
there support so far seems great they try to answer evey question quickly and there answers are perfect no 2 or 3 emails trying to get your point across the price was very reasonable and had my site up the same day i also looked at that other company and emailed them and called with no responce this is only one reason i chose craigslistclones.com
the other reasons are a great site well explained and the prompt return on my questions you cant make money if you can not contact them for support if your site messes up you are screwd till they decide to get back to you ok so here it is
craigslistclone
Yes, I got the same script but the support is not too good as you mentioned. I am still having the fetching problem. If any of you know the bug, please let me know.
Thanks
There is no support with this clone, they stole it from XZero Scripts. It can be purchased legaly at http://www.xzerosripts.com
Todd is right. the legal version is at xzeroscripts. and it’s 39.99. all other sitrs selling it are just scammers.