Wow! How did I miss this? I stumbled onto the Kitchener/Waterloo Craigslist site when I glanced at Ken Dyck's del.icio.us bookmarks today. From their factsheet, I found that the site has been around since January 2006. A brief description from the factsheet reads:

Q: What is craigslist?
A: Local community classifieds and forums - a place to find jobs, housing, goods & services, social activities, a girlfriend or boyfriend, advice, community information, and just about anything else -- all for free, and in a relatively non-commercial environment.

See the Wikipedia entry for Craiglist for more details, but to sum up, Craigslist was started in 1995 in the SanFrancisco area and has been wildly popular since, expanding into 150 cities since then.

How will the job postings fare against Workopolis and Monster? Who knows? Will it put the small papers out of business? Your guess is likely better than mine.

From what I can see, there is very little content so far with a good (bad?) number of SPAM-like postings. If people start spreading the word, maybe that will change?

Update 2006/03/23: I've been getting a lot of hits on this post from the search engines. For people and search engines that don't know it's "craigslist" (one word), I'll add the phrase "Craig's List" so the search engines will catch the two-word phrase as well.

Update 2008/04/28: Wow... it's been about two years since I posted this. Within the past year or so I've found that I had just as good (if not better) luck posting classified ads to the local Kijiji site.