Sometimes it’s not about the money

Now, I’m not say­ing that CraigsList isn’t mak­ing money. I’d guess, actu­ally, that it’s mak­ing quite a lot of money. How­ever, this post over at Bokardo and the source infor­ma­tion at the NY Times are a fas­ci­nat­ing insight into one of the facets of Web 2.0 moti­va­tion — some­times it’s just not about the money.

Nice to see CraigsList set­ting the bar at a good, high point dri­ven by user expe­ri­ence, social respon­si­bil­ity and a lit­tle bit of “think different”.

Note — In an act of sol­i­dar­ity, no ads on this post (not that they make any real money, acid­labs has gen­er­ated a lit­tle over US$100 in some­thing over 12 months — about half what it costs us to host the site).