edgeio blog » conversation http://blog.edgeio.com ...the classified advertising platform Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:51:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Inman TV interviews edgeio http://blog.edgeio.com/2007/07/17/inman-tv-interviews-edgeio/ http://blog.edgeio.com/2007/07/17/inman-tv-interviews-edgeio/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:32:50 +0000 Keith Teare http://blog.edgeio.com/?p=76 I was interviewed by Inman TV – the real estate news and events service.

Here it is

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Matt Marshall of Venturebeat
Rob Hof of Businessweek
Pete Cashmore of Mashable
Greg Sterling
Techmeme
Mike at TechCrunch

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After listening I decided to record my response to Craig’s response – here it is : MP3

I sent this to Neville so maybe he will include it in his show.

Let us know what your opinions are.

There is a lot happening here at edgeio, I will post news soon.

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We are especially interested in how GData will change the way people publish large datasets to Google Base. Since launching in February, edgeio has resisted numerous requests to support one of the many proprietary CSV file formats commonly used to transfer online commerce data. We firmly believe that the future is in standardized transport formats like RSS and Google’s move is a strong indication that others agree.

While we applaud Google’s move towards RSS, like Richard MacManus, we wonder why Google has not embraced semantic formats already developed by the Internet standard community. The GData specification, introduces us to the Google namespace and elements that handle contacts, location, events, etc. Yet these are already described by hCard, hCalendar, and various RDF elements like geo . In fact, Google may have taken a step backwards by defining things like gd:postalAddress which have no structure compared to existing formats. The Google approach works when you have a comprehensive geo coder and the necessary maintenance, but where does that leave smaller development organizations?

At edgeio we hope to see open standards prevail for both data transport and semantics. Like most modern web services, we rely heavily on RSS and ATOM for data acquisition and distribution. In future releases of edgeio we will be introducing more extensive support for microformats and, of course, encouraging the development of new formats like hListing.

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