Craigslist’s Craig Newmark and Stephen Colbert

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craig’s list was one of the keynote speakers at PubCon this year. During his presentation he mentioned his interview on the Colbert report. I just happen to have a Colbert video Google gadget and todays video just happened to be that interview. Update: the gadget displays a new video each day, so now that is a new day, there is a different video.

You can see some of my other Colbert gadgets featured on the Colberticon gadgets page…

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 at 8:38 pm and is filed under pubcon, google gadgets, search community, seo.

3 Responses to “Craigslist’s Craig Newmark and Stephen Colbert”

Adriana Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Hi, thanks for the great blog. I find the ideas presented here very exciting.

I’m wondering if you can write a bit about the sorting or ranking process at Google Gadgets. I put up a gadget called ‘virtual weight loss’ a couple of weeks ago and although i see it already has about 400 users, it still sits unseen in last place — behind all your damn virtual pets
How soon might my gadget move up the ladder and take it’s rightful place above some of your less used virtual pets?

cheers,
Adriana
pat Says:
January 5th, 2008 at 12:38 am
haha -
I will do just that Adriana.

I wrote about some of the specifics of the gadget directories and how they work before, but then Google changed everything.
There are definite relevancy problems with the gadget directory search function. I have highlighted these problems to the Google gadget team at Google.
More soon…
Adriana Says:
January 5th, 2008 at 2:42 am
Great! Thanks.