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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.

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BCLS 2010 - Digital Technology - Full Length 09/23/2010 
Digital Technology: Technology as a Tool for Social Change Blouin Creative Leadership Summit September 23, 2010 Featuring Ali Velshi, Chief Business Correspondent, CNN Nathan Eagle, Founder, txteagle Dr. Gary Flake, Director, Live Labs Microsoft Dr. Jeffrey Friedberg, Chief Trust Architect, Microsoft Chris Hughes, Co-Founder, Facebook and Jumo Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist Digital technology has not only changed the way in which commerce and business is organized, it has fundamentally altered how social relations are created, maintained and carried out. With the rise of micro-blogging and collaborative writing forums such as Wikipedia, the Internet has created a space that allows for new collectives to form, based upon the generation and exchange of information and knowledge. How, then, can digital and networked technologies be used to create new forms of political and social consciousness? What new innovations are on the horizon and what impact will they have?
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