seems like structured data has more value than unstructured. And email is pretty unstructured, requiring a lot of interpretation. And Craig's list to me does not have enough structured data. Is jotgot an evolution in the right direction?
It just launched today so it is in it's very early stages. Post some items you may have laying around to see how easy it is to use.
Having no categories to browse in the UI feels a bit strange at first, but imagine if google had categories? I believe Craigslist built it wrong from the beginning, but people are very use to that structure.
Yahoo was categorized early on, and gave you a sense of what was available by topic. Until there was a critical mass of web data, something like Google might not have taken off. CL taking a google style approach from day one would have been a failure, imo, because there wasn't a critical mass, and open ended 'google-style searching' for stuff on small amounts of data usually leads to 'nothing found' - not a good experience.
Good point. I'm trying to stay away from pre-defined categories, but I have been considering showing "popular" categories on the homepage so that users can browse listings easier. It would be as easy as writing a query that checks which tags are trending.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 26.5 ms ] thread(a bit too clean, I was looking for categories to browse through and could only find tags once I clicked on an item)
What would be the revenue model on this site? Ads?
Having no categories to browse in the UI feels a bit strange at first, but imagine if google had categories? I believe Craigslist built it wrong from the beginning, but people are very use to that structure.