02-24-2006, 09:15 AM
Quote:Edgeio, a Web 2.0 answer to Craigslist?
... co-founder Michael Arrington...called the company a search engine for classifieds on blogs...
Let's say you post a classifed ad on your blog. You tag it with the word "listing," and Edgeio will spot it and add it to its database. You add more tags (e.g., "San Francisco" and "couch") and these give your post/ad a way of appearing in the appropriate category within Edgeio.
In fact, you can post a classified ad pretty much anywhere. There just needs to be an RSS feed or something for Edgeio to track it. Your ad then gets picked up in a centralized marketplace. You post it, then you're done.
full article: http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2006/...slist.html
Quote:...I was given a personal tour of Edgeio, the startup founded by TechCrunch Mike and Keith Teare. ...my tour led by Matt Kaufman, Edgeio product manager, and Vidar Hokstad, director of engineeringâof the beta site left me with the impression that they have come up with a simple and elegant twist on the listings/classified business. The service aggregates listings from RSS-based Web pagesâpost listings on your blog and Edgeio indexes and organizes them on its site.
Edgeio doesn't plan to participate in transactions, Kaufman said, and will generate revenue via contextual ads, listing enhancement (bolding) fees and paid placement (a publisher/lister pays 25 cents to stay at the top of the heap) and auctions in the future as the service ramps up the number of listings.
full article: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=2609
Edit to add Related Topic: Hot on the Heels of Edgeio...Blog Classifieds Site BlogBuy Makes Its Debut http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...870.0.html