Okay — how long will it take Buckmaster and his cease-and-desist attorneys to shut this one down? We give it a week.

It’s Dailylister, a site that lets you search across Craigslist markets around the U.S. We read about it first on Gizmodo, where Joe Brown called it “horrendously designed and completely addictive.” He said the site is “only about a year old … [and] might hold out for another year.”

We doubt it.

Craigslist has a history of shutting down sites that aggregate its results, search across multiple sites, provide new tools for accessing or posting to Craigslist. They’re violations of Craigslist’s terms of use, which, incidentally, were updated in February to be clearer but also more restrictive.

So far, Dailylister has gotten away with what it’s doing — using Google tools to search across Craigslist. It’s a neat idea, and pretty simple and creative. But now that Gizmodo shined the spotlight on it we suspect Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster has the lawyers filling in the blanks on the “knock it off” letter even as we type.

In the meantime, if you want to search more than one Craigslist market, try Dailylister. While you can.

Is a battle of the auto-advertising titans in the works? You bet!

Manheim, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Cox Enterprises, yesterday announced the acquisition of Motors.co.uk from DMGT, the Daily Mail and General Trust plc. Motors.co.uk is No. 2 in the U.K. online automotive market. AutoTrader.co.uk is No. 1.

Cox owns AutoTrader.com in the U.S., which is unrelated to AutoTrader.co.uk.

AutoTrader.co.uk is owned by Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners, a private equity firm that also owns AutoTrader.ca, the leading Continue reading →

Michele Pearl, who spent 12 years at Monster.com in product management, international development, and strategy and acquisition integration, has joined ZMags, a company that provides rich media mobile and social merchandising.

The news release about Pearl’s appointment says she was on the founding team at Monster, and also worked for Intuit, BzzAgent, and CustomMade Ventures as chief product officer. She’ll be based at ZMags’ headquarters in Boston. The company works with retailers like Express, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Sears and Office Depot and calls itself “the only rich media platform that brings commerce into the digital catalog.”