Edgeio Invitation Codes
We have started to send invitation codes to people who have requested notification of the service launch on edgeio.com. If you’ve entered your email address, an invitation code will probably be coming soon.
Reviews are starting to come in:
Update (From Keith Teare)
There are so many posts now that it is pretty hard to list them all. So here are 2 links that should help you scoop up pretty much all of them:
Memeorandum Thread of Jeff Jarvis’ post (Hey Jeff, you forgot about me - Keith 
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Technorati search on “edgeio”
Feel free to leave a comment or a trackback under here if you have a post.
20/02/2006 at 1:37 am Permalink
Hi guys,
thanks for the link. I noted a couple of issues I had with edgeio in the comments of my post as did some of my readers - it might be worthwhile going back and looking over them (if you haven’t already).
Cheers,
Tom
20/02/2006 at 6:35 am Permalink
What’s up with the evil trackback spam? NOT a good business policy, dude.
20/02/2006 at 1:50 pm Permalink
First, as you know from my review, I like Edgeio alot. The usability is just awesome, and the use of AJAX is perfect where it’s used.
My question is what do you plan on doing once a listing has been sold? Does it remain active in Edgeio, or does it fade out over time? I know I probably wouldn’t go back and remove the “article/listing” from my blog.
20/02/2006 at 10:31 pm Permalink
hash,
We leave the items in edgeio but as all results are listed in reverse chronological order (newest first) they degrade naturally over time. You, as the publisher, can go into your “My Edgeio” area and tell us to remove them.
21/02/2006 at 9:48 am Permalink
if implemented to its full potential, edgeio could spell big trouble to the evil-is-as-evil-does gang at GOOG. i’m super excited to have a chance to be involved this early in the program. my initial experience includes several difficulties. this account is specific to a BLOGGER blog, not hosted on blogspot. first, i think the instructions on claiming a blog and then creating links need to much more dumbed down. i make a living helping LOTS of people even more retarded than myself, so if it’s a little tough for me, it will be impossible for many. once i did successfully claim my blog, it showed up as “unknown” on MyEdgeio. I made a test post glowing about Edgeio and including a several formats of test listings, to see if I could figure out the magic combination to get them to show up on Edgeio. None have worked, to date. Went back to MyEdgeio and explicitly pinged my site for updates, still no listings appearing on MyEdgeio. Also, I could not get the edgeio banner to display on my site unless I uncommented the javascript tags. Finally, in Firefox 1.5.0.1, whenever I click on an item in any edgeio banner on any site, the link opens up INSIDE the little banner box, unless I middle-click, in which case the link opens in a new tab. Hope the short laundry list helps. Happy to continue testing and feedback from this single perspective. Thanks for all the hard work and a VERY COMPELLING new service idea!
21/02/2006 at 2:08 pm Permalink
Here’s part of what I wrote about edgeio yesterday:
edgeio: Classifieds, and a hope for distributed community
23/02/2006 at 7:51 pm Permalink
hash,
New as of today is that we’ve added provisional support for the “dtexpired” class from the hlisting microformat draft: http://www.microformats.org/wiki/hlisting-proposal
That allows anyone to expire their posts either at a specific time in the future, or “immediately” by setting the expired time in the past and ping’ing us.
(We’re not checking if it’s a full hlisting, just looking for the dtexpired bit for now, and this is also with the caveat that there may be changes if the hlisting proposal changes)