User:Earspratt/ListAfterList.com

ListAfterList.com is a user generated, list publishing, Social networking Website.

ListAfterList was launched on February 26, 2007. It is currently a beta Website. ListAfterList.com, LLC is based out of Columbus, Ohio. It is currently run by two full-time employees, John Edwards, a founder of ListAfterList and former director of content programming at AOL, and Ryan Pratt, the full-time editor, promoter, and manager. Pratt is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University who wrote for the school newspaper The Lantern. There is also a team of interns from Ohio State and other local schools.

The initial founding partners and investors of ListAfterList are John Edwards, Rick Blair, Heather McKenzie Carlisle and Dave Evans.

ListAfterList started with an Alexa Web ranking around 1 million, and has quickly climbed into the top 100,000 Websites. As of September 2007, there are thousands of registered users and thousands of lists on the site. It has a Google pagerank of 3. According to Quantcast.com, ListAfterList averages over 50,000 monthly pageviews globally.

What is ListAfterList
ListAfterList allows people to quickly and easily create and share lists of all types and subjects. Whether it’s lists of bests, worsts, how-to, facts, opinions and more you can find thousands of lists covering over twenty broad-based categories including news, sports, politics, entertainment, travel, autos, jobs, love, local, and money (to name just a few.) Anyone can see and share lists with friends, and Listers can create their own personal lists as well as collaborate on all wiki lists.

About ListAfterList
At it’s core, ListAfterList is a site that applies the "collective intelligence" of the web to the creation and distribution of all types of information in list form. These lists form the focal point around which social networking users will interact and continue to publish information that is important to them and their peers.

The site is free to users and generates revenue from advertising including Google banner ads, Google text ads, and Amazon contextual product ads.

From the ListAfterList.com "About" page: "ListAfterList is about lists and it is about you. Lists are...concise, fun, brief, shorthand, timesavers, fast, direct, efficient, pointed, condensed, organized, bundled, related, specific, focused, structured, step-by-step, prioritized, ranked, important, effortless,illuminating. You are... creative, giving, smart, funny, inventive, caring, experienced, helpful, wise, ironic, fast, outrageous, witty, sharing, expressive, driven, educated, sexy, purposeful, inquisitive, playful. ListAfterList.com combines the benefits of lists with the power of you to make the web a more useful place, one line at a time. All you need to do is... 1. Register, 2. Create, 3. Share"

The Web site is based on the idea of "making the Web a better place, one line at a time" (the trademarked slogan).

Features
ListAfterList features the ability to create lists that are either personal or wikis. Personal lists are uneditable by anyone but yourself. Wikis are lists that other listers can add and edit.

How to Create a List
Creating a list is quick and easy:
 * 1) Register for ListAfterList.com.
 * 2) Click the "Create a List" button in the top left of every page.
 * 3) Fill out all of the required fields.
 * 4) Click the "Preview" button to review your list before it goes live.
 * 5) Click the "Publish" button to push it live.

Users can also rate a list (1-5), comment on lists, create a social networking profile, email lists to others, and embed lists in their HTML blogs or profiles on other sites.

Currently, ListAfterList does not allow any HTML within lists, comments or profiles, except for ListAfterList editors.

ListAfterList also contains a searchable database of the lists, over 20 category pages with the newest and top rated lists in each category, viewable "lister" profile pages with each listers created and favorite lists, and archives of past featured lists, listers and weekly newsletters.

Competitors
List websites are a growing industry on the Web. Some of the other list oriented Websites on the internet include: OnMyList.com (another social list site), Listphile.com (a similar social list site), Tadalist.com (a to-do list site), Unspun.com (Amazon's ranking list site), ListofBest.com (a site focused on "best of" lists), and Wikipedia's List of Topics.

Media Coverage
The Columbus Dispatch recently covered ListAfterList: article from Dispatch.com: "Site collects lists of every kind"

Links in Wikipedia
Andy Roddick: References: 1. Fastest Men's Tennis Serves