edgeio hopes to marry blogs with classifieds

Thu, Feb 9, 2006

Are you ready for a mash-up of blogs and online classifieds? A new company called Edgeio hopes to do just that.

According to an article in BusinessWeek online, the company "no doubt will get the attention of current powerhouses in Web commerce and classified ads, such as eBay and Craigslist."

More on the service: "The way Edgeio works is that bloggers would post items they want to sell right on their blogs, tagging them with the word "listing" (and eventually other descriptive tags). Then, Edgeio will pluck them as it constantly crawls millions of blogs looking for the "listing" tag and index them on Edgeio.com."

Click here for the rest of the story. Interesting idea, but I’m having a hard time envisioning it succeeding … but, what do I know?

Speaking of mash-ups, I’ve included one of my current fav’s below (happy Friday):

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