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In 2005, San Francisco Craigslist's men seeking men section was attributed to facilitating sexual encounters and was the second most common correlation to syphilis infections. The company has been pressured by San Francisco Department of Public Health officials, prompting Jim Buckmaster to state that the site has a very small staff and that the ...
Craig Alexander Newmark (born December 6, 1952) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist. Prior to founding Craigslist, he worked as a computer programmer for IBM, Bank of America, and Charles Schwab. Newmark served as chief executive officer of Craigslist from its ...
The Bay Area consists of nine counties ( Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6]
Virginia Tech ( BS) University of Michigan (no degree) Occupation (s) Computer programmer, CEO of craigslist. Years active. 2000-present. Jim Buckmaster (born August 14, 1962) [1] is an American computer programmer who has been the CEO of Craigslist since 2000.
With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, [25] San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California. The city covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers) [26] at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City and the ...
24 Hours on Craigslist is a 2004 American documentary film that captures the people and stories behind a single day's posts on the classified ad website Craigslist.The film, made with the approval of Craigslist's founder Craig Newmark, is woven from interviews with the site's users, all of whom opted in to be contacted by the production when they submitted their posts on August 4, 2003.
The Sunset District is the largest neighborhood within the city and county of San Francisco. [citation needed] Golden Gate Park forms the neighborhood's northern border, and the Pacific Ocean (or, more specifically, the long, flat strand of beach known as Ocean Beach) forms its western border. A section of the Sunset District towards its ...
18th century. Las Californias is established in 1768 by New Spain, encompassing the Bay Area. Gaspar de Portolà arrives in the Bay Area in 1769. Mission San Francisco de Asís and El Presidio Real de San Francisco are founded in 1776 in Yerba Buena. Baptisms of the Yelamu by Spanish missionaries begin in 1777.