Craigslist cannot protect its listing under copyright law in its case against apartment listings site PadMapper, but the app may still be in hot water with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
RoomHunt integrates a rental directory with social networks to simplify the process of finding a place to live and roommates to live with.
After trading numerous blows with apartment mapping service PadMapper, popular classifieds site Craigslist has started to roll out its own “map view” of apartments listed on its site.
Editor's Pick Data harvester 3taps is countersuing Craigslist to save the internet. Believe it or not, that just might not be an overstatement.
"Craiglist was an innovator at one time," says 3taps chief executive Greg Kidd. "But time has moved on, and the concept of what the open web is today has evolved."
Craigslist is creating its own version of PadMapper, the apartment-rental website that overlays apartment listing over a Google Maps. The feature was caught by TPM who says it is currently being tested in San Francisco and Portland areas.
Craigslist took out the "exclusive license" clause in its terms of use today, which would have prevented users from listing their items on any other services.
Editor's Pick Craigslist really, really, really does not want any of its listings showing anywhere else on the web.
Craigslist has never done things the way Silicon Valley wants it to. Naturally, that makes people here furious.
If you’re going to list an item on Craigslist, you better not advertise it anywhere else. In an effort to suffocate competing sites, the online classifieds website says your listings are now exclusive to Craigslist, barred from re-posting.
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Granddaddy-of-classifieds-sites Craigslist has sued smart apartment-hunting app PadMapper for continuing to use its listings after Craigslist issued a cease-and-desist letter.
PadMapper scrapes data from various apartment listing sites including Craigslist, Apartments.com, and Rent.com, and places those listings in Google Maps. …
Three cheers, apartment hunters! PadMapper creator Eric DeMenthon found a “legally kosher” way to reinstate Craigslist data on his rental-finding website after Craigslist blocked the site from using its content last month.
PadMapper takes data on apartments for rent from …
Last week, Craigslist blocked apartment search startup PadMapper from accessing its rental listings. This week, PadMapper founder Eric DeMenthon refocused on his apartments-for-rent sister service PadLister as a source to feed rental listings into both PadMapper and Craigslist … as …
Craigslist has blocked apartment-finding site PadMapper. Chief executive Eric DeMenthon made the announcement today on the PadMapper blog that all Craiglist-sourced rentals are being deleted from the PadMapper database.
