Comments on: More Bloggers Discuss Edgeio

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:53:08 +0000

After a day of testing, using the wordpress website, I think Edgeio is GREAT!!! However, another issue that I would like you to address (in addition to those mentioned in this post) is how you will help buyers to measure the reputation of the sellers. Will there be an eBay-like feedback rating?

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Best of eBay Blogs » Blog Archive » Loosing (to) the edge? — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:04:21 +0000

[...] Michael is keeping track of the buzz on the blogosphere here and here and he said he will be posting his thought on some of the questions being raised about Edgeio challenges. This is a very good way to start the conversation and evangelize their solution! [...]

By: Michael Wales

Michael Wales — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:58:58 +0000

As I mentioned in my article on Edgeio, I am curious as to whether Edgeio will be using NLP, tags, syntax, in order to determine certain info about a listing.

How will edgeio know I am selling an automobile (Mitsubishi Motors vs. Mitsubishi Electric), when my listing should begin/end, how to contact me for purchase, etc?

Will Edgeio be nothing more than spidering and linking to the blogger’s post? If not, how will this content be reflected on Edgeio in a intuitive manner (rather than just a mirror of the post)?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:07:52 +0000

Hi Fred, The idea is that bloggers will let us know directly or via gestures the appropriate geography for any particular listing. We include 3.5 million locations in our database, and each location has a latitude and longitude associated with it. No need for temporary blogs…this will make sense when we launch.

By: Fred A Newtz

Fred A Newtz — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:06:56 +0000

Will everyone trying to sell something have to create a temporary blog or will there be regional (zip code) flea market blogs where one can post their product for sale?

By: Didier DURAND

Didier DURAND — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:18:57 +0000

I read the post of Bill Burnham about Edgeio where he writes that you crawl already 26 Mio blogs to collect listings.

Check it at http://billburnham.blogs.com/burnhamsbeat/2006/02/edgeio_and_the_.html

My understandin: I see it as a big waste to crawl 26 millions to only extract object listings on them. (…even in the era of free bandwidth/storage/cpu)

Personnally, I don’t try to sell things everyday so a listing would appear only once in a long while on my personal blog

Inbetween Edgeio would accumulate tons of useless posts for its listing purpose.

Do I miss something?

didier

By: Pat McCarthy

Pat McCarthy — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:10:30 +0000

Just wanted to add I also had some comments, looks very promising.

http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/02/09/edgeio-is-almos-t-there/

By: Matt Tanase

Matt Tanase — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:07:43 +0000

the edgeio experiment

The author at one of my must read sites, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch is preparing to launch a new service â€“ edgeio. Itâ€™s one of those ideas that makes your heart race, because if it succeeds, things are going to change â€“ again…

http://www.howradical.com/articles/2006/02/14/the-edgeio-experiment