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In 2005, San Francisco Craigslist's men seeking men section was attributed to facilitating sexual encounters and was the second most common correlation to syphilis infections. The company has been pressured by San Francisco Department of Public Health officials, prompting Jim Buckmaster to state that the site has a very small staff and that the ...
Craig Alexander Newmark (born December 6, 1952) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist. Prior to founding Craigslist, he worked as a computer programmer for IBM, Bank of America, and Charles Schwab. Newmark served as chief executive officer of Craigslist from its ...
18th century. Las Californias is established in 1768 by New Spain, encompassing the Bay Area. Gaspar de Portolà arrives in the Bay Area in 1769. Mission San Francisco de Asís and El Presidio Real de San Francisco are founded in 1776 in Yerba Buena. Baptisms of the Yelamu by Spanish missionaries begin in 1777.
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco.
San Francisco, [24] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California. With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, [25] San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose.
The Bay Area consists of nine counties ( Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6]
November 2014 photo by Doc Searls. San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland . San Francisco Bay drains water from approximately 40 percent of California.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. Education. Virginia Tech ( BS) University of Michigan (no degree) Occupation (s) Computer programmer, CEO of craigslist. Years active. 2000-present. Jim Buckmaster (born August 14, 1962) [1] is an American computer programmer who has been the CEO of Craigslist since 2000.