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By: edgeio corporation » Blog Archive » Dan Farber Talks About Edgeio

edgeio corporation » Blog Archive » Dan Farber Talks About Edgeio — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:18:06 +0000

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By: edgeio corporation » Blog Archive » Edgeio Invitation Codes

edgeio corporation » Blog Archive » Edgeio Invitation Codes — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:17:51 +0000

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By: James

James — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:21:22 +0000

I think the winners are the unslick UI’s…

By: Hostick

Hostick — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:38:07 +0000

Yeh i really like the UI too.

By: Mashable*

Mashable* — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:24:57 +0000

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…

By: Conn O Muineachain

Conn O Muineachain — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:46:55 +0000

Edgeio sounds to me like it’s designed to be a perfect fit with structured blogging (and I think I read that somewhere too :-))!

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:33:38 +0000

Vidar,

I was tagging the posts after Michael’s suggestion that we

start an edgeio network in Cork?

It occurred to me that the best way to do this would be to use a tag - is there a better way to do this?

Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

By: Vidar Hokstad

Vidar Hokstad — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:27:39 +0000

Tom,
I handle the engineering side at Edgeio. A couple of comments: It’s actually not necessary to tag your posts with your location - when people register and claim their blogs and pick a location we’ll automatically set that as the location for listings from then on, and update any older listings that doesn’t have a location next time they ping. Just pushed out the update to do that this morning.

Regarding the widget, that’s an artefact of our pre-launch password checks - people without our cookie won’t be able to see it. I guess we should look at taking the password protection off that specific page.

Thanks for the thorough review, and if you need help with anything or have questions about the technical side of Edgeio , feel free to e-mail me.

Vidar

By: Hashim

Hashim — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:56:43 +0000

if they are collecting the listings via metadata then I wonder how they will tackle three problems:

1. spam

2. competitors like ebay and Technorati flipping a switch to create a similiar service based on the same metadata

3. spam

By: Corporate Blogging 101 » Blog Archive » Edgeio - the new ebay killer?

Corporate Blogging 101 » Blog Archive » Edgeio - the new ebay killer? — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:41:19 +0000

[...] Edgeio has been getting a lot of buzz recently and rightly so. Tom Raftery was lucky enough to be able to give it a test drive yesterday and had this to say about it on his blog. [...]

By: I was the top story in Memeorandum! « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

I was the top story in Memeorandum! « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:26:13 +0000

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By: MacManX.com » Blogroll Dive: 2/20/06

MacManX.com » Blogroll Dive: 2/20/06 — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:19:28 +0000

[...] And, Tom reviewed edgeio, an upcoming market listing service. Filed under: Blogs [...]

By: pwb

pwb — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:17:40 +0000

I really like the UI.

I wonder. I think it’s quite possible that the winners in this space (eBay, Google, Craigslist) are better suited by unslick UIs.

By: nate

nate — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:00:36 +0000

I got a sneak peak as well, and must agree. It’s pretty sweet. I’m not sure how often I’ll use it, but I really like the UI.

I think they just need to make it a hair easier to enter a listing. Perhaps even create plugins for blogging systems will help.

All in all, great site. I agree with your review.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:44:05 +0000

metavalent - I had problems also claiming my blog - I got it to work by inserting the code into my post (and deleting it once the blog was successfully claimed).

One aspect of this which I tthink may be adding to the confusion is that edgeio seems to have some form of caching in place - you sometimes need to do a hard-refresh (shift-refresh) of pages to see an update.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:10:08 +0000

metavalent - there was an issue for me entering an authorization code using ecto on Mac in WordPress - I got over that by using WP text editor. I’ve also put an email into edgeio support - not sure why that was the case. But it did work well once I’d overcome that hiccup.

By: razorshine

razorshine — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:57:09 +0000

metavalent: its mentioned in my pingback above but its not that clear looking at it so I’ll type it out here..

are you typing the url of your blog and NOT your rss/atom feed urls?

By: razorshine

razorshine — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:39:21 +0000

edgio - an ebay killer?

This morning, I received an invite to take a sneak preview of the edgeio system. It allows people to post items for sale on their websites. These in turn are picked up by edgeio and then reposted on the edgio website. It has been launched by Michael Ar…

By: metavalent

metavalent — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:11:37 +0000

I tried claiming my blogger blog using both the in-comment and head meta tag methods, but neither has worked, quite yet. My blog is published via both RSS and ATOM and neither seem to work at the moment. I could be doing something stupid, of course, but tried to follow the FAQ best I could. Also, the FAQ is a little obscure in describing how to create a “listing” tag, in addition to other tags (cars, furniture, etc.) on blogs that don’t have the built-in category thing or explicit tag support. I hope Blogger gets with the program, but kind of doubt that it will since it’s a Google property and EDGEIO could clearly eat AdSense for lunch, and Base for dessert. Anyway, thanks for the Herculean effort that it certain took to get EDGEIO out there.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:58:08 +0000

It has Dennis - a couple of spots need a bit of UI tweaking but for an app still in beta it is very impressive