I got an early look at Edgeio a few months back at one of those famous TechCrunch parties but I was sworn to secrecy. I see that Dave Winer is part of the Edgeio team as well and that he has a link to a BusinessWeek article about it (the article is here). It’s the first of several services (I guess CoComment could be counted in there) that give bloggers more services without forcing them to run off to another walled garden somewhere else.
My blog is MY garden. I love this trend. Let me do more from my blog, no matter where I am.
That’s exactly what Edgeio does. It lets me sell things right on my blog by tagging them. Now I have two groups of sellers who’ll see my listing. Buyers who are over on the Edgeio service. And my readers.
This could attack the lockin strategies that many companies try to employ. Including the one I work for. That makes this a trend to watch.
Edgeio: Crawls ‘The Edge’ For Listings
Edgeio a product that is being developed by Archimedes Ventures partners Keith Teare and Michael Arrington made its demo debut yesterday as Keith showed the attendees of the SDForum. Edgeio has been a very intriguing project and is one
Walled gardens suck! The reason I have recently switched over to gmail 100% is they let their service do their talking for them. If I find another email service that I like more than Gmail, I can simply forward all my email from my Gmail account to my new email account. Hotmail, nope, they will do everything they can to keep you trapped in their subpar world. (read: don’t let me forward my email, so I am stuck in their service)
Walled gardens suck! The reason I have recently switched over to gmail 100% is they let their service do their talking for them. If I find another email service that I like more than Gmail, I can simply forward all my email from my Gmail account to my new email account. Hotmail, nope, they will do everything they can to keep you trapped in their subpar world. (read: don’t let me forward my email, so I am stuck in their service)
i also think what edgeio is doing is interesting. i’d also encourage you to check out and comment on a recently proposed microformat specification called hlisting http://www.microformats.org/wiki/hlisting-proposal. This would enable a wide variety of engines (Oodle, Technorati, Google as well as Edgeio) to easily find and reference a classifieds listing posted on a blog.
You might also want to check out an alpha version of an open-source plug-in for WordPress that uses this draft spec — http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/02/07/posting-a-listing-with-wordpress/
interesting times…
i also think what edgeio is doing is interesting. i’d also encourage you to check out and comment on a recently proposed microformat specification called hlisting http://www.microformats.org/wiki/hlisting-proposal. This would enable a wide variety of engines (Oodle, Technorati, Google as well as Edgeio) to easily find and reference a classifieds listing posted on a blog.
You might also want to check out an alpha version of an open-source plug-in for WordPress that uses this draft spec — http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/02/07/posting-a-listing-with-wordpress/
interesting times…
That makes this a trend to watch.
A-List Bloggerese to English Translation: They cut me (and best-friend Dave) in on a deal. But Fon is evil, bad bad, as I got no cut.
That makes this a trend to watch.
A-List Bloggerese to English Translation: They cut me (and best-friend Dave) in on a deal. But Fon is evil, bad bad, as I got no cut.
[...] Of course the bloggers love it too. I think that we’ve all had a look at it over the past 6 months… Edgeio has been great at getting feedback from the A-list bloggers (and podcasters). [...]
Christopher: I’m not getting a dime from Edgeio. Well, they did sponsor my launch party. So, guess I should have disclosed that. $1,000 to buy food and tents and other nice things for our guests. Nothing went into my pockets, though.
Christopher: I’m not getting a dime from Edgeio. Well, they did sponsor my launch party. So, guess I should have disclosed that. $1,000 to buy food and tents and other nice things for our guests. Nothing went into my pockets, though.
Ebay will be Ebay 2.0
I’m confused about the all of the hype around EdgeIO today. Sure it’s an awesome idea, but if it catches on then what’s stopping eBay or Craigslist from:
Well, coComment does seem a little walled to me so long as it only tracks the comments of other cC users on blogs I comment on – not that I know how they’d do otherwise.
I’ll be interested to see what Edgeio does about things like the Craig’s List housing discrimination suit. I guess you could put a spam and demographic/identity term” filter on the incoming feeds?
Well, coComment does seem a little walled to me so long as it only tracks the comments of other cC users on blogs I comment on – not that I know how they’d do otherwise.
I’ll be interested to see what Edgeio does about things like the Craig’s List housing discrimination suit. I guess you could put a spam and demographic/identity term” filter on the incoming feeds?
AOL was the biggest Walled Garden offender.
AOL was the biggest Walled Garden offender.
To the best of my knowledge, AOL was also one of the only major web companies that refused to go along with Chinese censorship demands. See:
http://committeetoprotectbloggers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2005/9/19/1239974.html
As I understand it, the walled garden days of AOL are over. I hope so, as they are one of my employers. My understanding is that they have a new strategy, based on in part on content, blogs, mass mailings of disposable crap etc. Much like the new company discussed in this post (minus the mailings I hope).
To the best of my knowledge, AOL was also one of the only major web companies that refused to go along with Chinese censorship demands. See:
http://committeetoprotectbloggers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2005/9/19/1239974.html
As I understand it, the walled garden days of AOL are over. I hope so, as they are one of my employers. My understanding is that they have a new strategy, based on in part on content, blogs, mass mailings of disposable crap etc. Much like the new company discussed in this post (minus the mailings I hope).
My blog is my garden..i like this elaboration!
My blog is my garden..i like this elaboration!
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Edgeio: edge aggregator
# 2006-02-09: “Teare spilled a lot of beans tonight at an SDForum online-classifieds event at the GooglePlex” – BusinessWeek, Dave Winer, Scobleizer
# 2006-02-11: “We will be focusing on classified listings of any type to start” – 1st post on Edge…
BlogBuy – Michael’s Little Edgeio Killer?
Just one day after launch, Edgeio already has a rival to contend with. Although less well-designed (and certainly less well executed) than Mike’s “little eBay killer“, BlogBuy may add weight to the argument that edge aggregators a…
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