Tune in tonight, July 26th, 7pm EST on HumDesi Radio
Craigslist is one of the largest privately owned companies, with 20 Billion page views a month worldwide. Not just a house hold name, Craigslist.org is used by 77 countries, and we are very excited to have founder Craig Newmark on the show live from the West Coast!
Born in NJ, best known for starting his SFO based company craigslist.org, Newmark is vocal about keeping the internet free.
A web-oriented software engineer by training, with 30 years of IT experience at companies such as IBM and Bank of America,Craig now spends his days working as a customer service rep at craigslist.
In 1995 while Craig was working at Schwab, he started craigslist as an email list for friends and co-workers about events going on in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1999, Craig retired from IT consulting to work full-time on craigslist. What started as a fun side project in Craig’s living room has since grown into one of the busiest sites on the internet, helping people with basic day-to-day needs such as finding a job, an apartment and a date, all within a culture of trust.
Craig continues to embrace his inner nerd though he no longer wears thick black glasses that are held together with tape, and he retired the plastic pocket protector some years ago.
Craig is involved with a variety of community efforts and is particularly interested in organizations promoting public diplomacy, mideast peace and new forms of media such as participatory journalism. He’s on the boards of Sunlight Foundation, OneVoice, FactCheckED, and VotoLatino.
From inspiring a Wierd Al Yankovic song, to an award winning documentary, the most striking thing about Craigslist is it’s staunch decision to stay minimal CSS based. In a world where web 2.0 is already outdated, it is simply remarkable to have a site that is so overwhlmingly popular yet largely free and community moderated.
Craig graduated from Case Western University and will talk to us about the Presidents call to volunteer-ism, a subject very dear to him. Using the net for social change is also a subject he cares deeply for an one that goes to the core of NetIP’s values: social change.
For more check out Craig’s blog, http://www.cnewmark.com/ and send in your questions for Craig to primetime@netip.org
Craig will be streaming live on twitter during the show, be sure to follow @netipna and re-tweet using the hashtag #netipradio. Follow Craig @craignewmark
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Programming for South Asian professionals arrives on HD Radio
NetIP launched its radio show in 2009 and has a large listener ship across its broadcast cities and the web. During this regular show, leading business, financial, arts and media professionals discuss issues such as; surviving the financial turmoil by leveraging South Asian roots; the political voice of South Asians; the face of the 21st century Indian American professional; struggling for the American dream, immigration, economics and much more. The show gets over 6000 listeners on the internet alone. Every show brings NetIP’s social networks to life with questions, comments, status updates and more. Hum Desi Radio is a division of World Band Media, North America’s first Ethnic Digital Radio Network.
Prime Time is NetIP’s monthly radio show on HD service and on the internet.
