The well known classifieds site, Craigslist, has always been simple yet, outstanding. Other web services changed their content to AJAX, and Flash, while Craigslist kept the same design since the beginning. The site has kept people coming back for some time now, so there hasn’t been much need for change.

Craigslist has been in the news over the last few weeks for unpleasant reasons, so it’s in good reason that Craigslist now has an official blog where CEO Jim Buckmaster can post his thoughts.

Here’s the interesting thing, Buckmaster is discussing the hot issues of the day on the blog, and engaging with his audience directly. Users can even leave comments on blog posts (although not on the same page as the post). But the blog still feels old school. It has a plain layout, and there’s not even an RSS feed. Welcome to the 21st century Craigslist!

Most of Google’s services are optimized for mobile web browsers, including their search page, Google News, RSS reader, and email client. Google has yet to release a version for Windows Mobile, so developer Bryan Burkholder decided to create one. It is called Google2Go.

The application supports almost all Google mobile services, including:

Google web, image, and local search
Google Calendar
Google Reader
Gmail
Google Docs
Picasa
Google News
Google Notes

Google2Go requires a Windows Mobile 6 Professional device with a touchscreen, but Burkholder plans to add support for other devices later this year.

via Google Blogoscoped

Kindo.com allows you to create your family tree online. When you first visit the site it asks you for some information, name, gender, and your email address. Once you enter that in you are ready to add members to your family tree. Adding members to the tree is simple, and you are able to invite family members to Kindo to fill in people in your tree you might have missed. Kindo allows you to create profiles for members of you tree including a picture, email address, home address, phone number, birthday, website, and AIM screenname.

Kindo has taken privacy into account making only family members able to view your information.

Also check out One Family.

Via Download Squad

Google has just introduced an online business software package designed to make it easier for people in the same organization to share documents and information.

The free “Team Edition” version, released today, shows the Internet search leader’s latest attempt to attract more users to free applications, which makes Microsoft quiver because of their costly word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and calendar programs.

Most likely Google chose to release the software this week due to Microsoft offering a bid to buy Yahoo Inc. in an attempt to stop Google’s lead in Internet search and advertising.

Microsoft’s bid, said to be $44.6 billion, is from the profit of software.

Google knows that giving away free software cloaks how they make a profit. By users clicking ads on search result pages.

At this time more than 500,000 businesses have signed up to use Google’s applications, according to Google. Some businesses pay $50 extra per user for more features, but the fees are measly compared to Google’s $16.6 billion in annual revenue. Google makes $181 million for software sales.

Box.net has joined Google in offering more collaboration features. The well known online file storage service Box.net has added a new invite collaborators button that makes it easy to share a folder with other Box.net users.

This feature is great for users that have images, documents, and any other files they want to share with another user, all they have to do is just right-click and enter the email addresses of the receiving user(s). The recieveing user will then be able to access the contents sent. There is a feature that lets users specify if the receiving user may edit the folders contents or just view it.

In the future we hope Box.net will offer applications for editing documents and spreadsheets, like Google Docs.

Via Box.net

We have always found it a little annoying to have to have a browser open to listen music via Pandora. This piece of software allows Pandora users to login to their Pandora account and access the streaming music service without having to open a web browser.

We were suprised to find out that Pandora’s Box was created in 2005, that is becasuse we had not come across it. But we fell in love with it at first sight. The program has support for Quick Mix, lets users give songs a thumbs up or down and offers the same features found on Pandora.com.

In the future we hope that the creator makes it more memory efficient and also support for Mac would be nice for Mac users. Overall we found this program to be a must have for all Pandora users.

Here is a program for basically anyone who uses Flickr. FlickrDown, is a utility that allows users to download images from Flickr quickly and easily. FlickrDown is only available for Windows and requires .Net 2.0 to be installed.

Its simple to use. All you have to do is enter a username, email address, tags, or group and search. Then click the Download button and all the photos selected will start to download.

Do you ever go to YouTube looking for music videos? We all do… Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend is #2 for most viewed video. Well that is what Mystrands.tv is all about. The site is simple to use, all you do is enter an artist or genre and MyStrands will start playing music videos it thinks you’ll like. All of the videos played on Mystrands.tv are hosted by YouTube.

Because the videos are hosted on YouTube you may end up hiding some bumps in play due to the video being deleted by the YouTube user or YouTube deleting it for being illegally uploaded. During our time on Mystrands.tv we did not see any deleted video messages so hopefully they made it so removed videos are skipped.

Like most music listening services users are able to give music videos a thumbs up or down to let MyStrands more easily find music that meets your likings.

The new tabs feature takes a little bit of getting use to: new tabs appear for almost every action, replying, searching, creating new messages, chatting or adding new contacts. One drawback for some users is not seeing their inbox but rather a news tab. Other mail services watch out, Yahoo! has something great.

Amazon and Pepsi are planning to partner in a give away. They plan to give away 1 billion MP3s from Amazon’s MP3 download store. The give away will launch during the Super Bowl on Feb 3rd.

How to win. Pepsi is going to print a code on 5 billion bottle caps and you will enter the code at the Amazon MP3 store.

We have seen this before when Pepsi partnered with apple and gave away 25 million 5 million songs. 20 million went unredeemed. Amazon and Pepsi say they are giving away 1 billion songs but that doesn’t mean they’ll actually be “giving away” anywhere near that number.