{"id":136,"date":"2012-02-24T20:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/lamont\/?p=136"},"modified":"2016-03-06T22:32:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T22:32:45","slug":"a-new-way-to-browse-craigslist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/2012\/02\/24\/a-new-way-to-browse-craigslist\/","title":{"rendered":"A new way to browse Craigslist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next month, my company plans on releasing the first version of our Craigslist app. It&#8217;s not going to be complicated (in fact, this early release will only let users buy on Craigslist with an iPhone or iPad), but we think it serves a big need in the marketplace. On a PC, <a href=\"http:\/\/craigslist.org\">Craigslist&#8217;s Web interface<\/a> is oriented toward text. The Invantory app is really oriented toward photos, as you can see from the screenshot below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2012\/02\/invantory_fuji_bike_listing_022412.png\" alt=\"Craigslist bike listing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If there are more than two photos, all it takes is a horizontal swipe of the thumb to see the other photos. The other innovation relates to browsing: Instead of reading text lists, users are presented with thumbnails. This makes it much easier to visually identify items of interest and skip over items that are of no interest.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited about the app and hope you can give it a spin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next month, my company plans on releasing the first version of our Craigslist app. It&#8217;s not going to be complicated (in fact, this early release will only let users buy on Craigslist with an iPhone or iPad), but we think it serves a big need in the marketplace. On a PC, Craigslist&#8217;s Web interface is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5676,57013,142],"tags":[13108,6208,85149],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craigslist","category-local-classifieds","category-technology","tag-startup","tag-ui","tag-ux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}