Garage sale on steroids: Isles of Capri hosts ‘the mother of all yard sales’

You know when a few neighbors get together to hold a yard sale? Well, the Isles of Capri takes that concept, and knocks it out of the park. The entire community, across the river from Marco Island, opens up their garages and puts their stuff on sale.

Rumgr is the iPhone app Craigslist should have built

The new app from three former Zappos employees is designed to let people who have random things to sell post ads for them quickly, and for buyers to easily discover what's for sale around them. And Craigslist isn't even part of the equation.

Sellers Choice 2012 Marketplace Ratings: Craigslist

In January 2012, EcommerceBytes surveyed over 7,200 online sellers and asked them to rate the marketplaces on which they had experience selling. An introduction to the Sellers Choice survey along with a summary of the overall ratings can be found here , along with links to results for each of the 16 online marketplaces included in the survey.

The Notebook : Feb. 5, 2012

Excuse me, sir, are you building an arsenal?

Altrincham: The 100-year-old map that shows how our high streets have changed

Dated 1910, a map of Altrincham, Cheshire is surrounded by ads for clock-makers, horse and carriage hire, tobacconists, butchers and a theatre among others.