Category: edgeio

  • end of an era, start of another

    Earlier today I posted on the edgeio blog the news that the transition of edgeio to its new owners – Looksmart and Vast.com – is complete from my point of view. I continue to believe that edge-published classifieds will one day be a large advertising opportunity, and sooner rather than later. The edgeio web site…

  • edgeio has announced the paid content platform. Distributed Commerce meets Web 2.0

    Press release for download Product Description given to Gnomedex Attendees News from the Web on this: Digg – here Techmeme – here and here ReadWrite web – here TechCrunch – here Venturebeat – here Gnomedex – here Jeff Jarvis – here Dan Farber – ZDNet – here Rob Hof at BusinessWeek – here Bub.blicio.us –…

  • edgeio launches Classified Boards

    As promised John Dowd – the product manager for edgeio marketplaces – opened up the beta of the Classified Boards product to the public today.TechCrunch France has already used the platform to launch Crunchboard France. The announcement is here; Dan Farber has covered it here, and Robert Scoble has an exclusive video walkthrough on the…

  • edgeio marketplaces – first review

    Well, the first review is in. And its been Dugg. We pre-announced the product a couple of weeks ago and on Friday the first beta testers had a chance to try it out. More are following throughout the weekend. With any luck we will open it for a public beta on Tuesday. The idea of…

  • edgeio pre-launches “listings boards”

    I have just posted a full announcement on the edgeio blog that we are about to launch a commerce platform called edgeio marketplaces. You can read about it and join up for the beta at http://marketplaces.edgeio.com. In a nutshell it is attempting to make the process of creating revenue carrying features as simple for a…

  • De-portalization and Internet revenues

    Last week Fred Wilson did a post on a phenomena he called de-portalization. I think he is right on the money. I just posted a piece on the edgeio blog that picks up on that theme and discusses the consequences of the trend. The top 10 consequences are: 1. The revenue growth that has characterized…

  • edgeio – is becoming a search engine, for “stuff”

    Over at the edgeio blog I have posted the first insight into where we are going with edgeio search. It has been about 9 months since we launched edgeio. We now have a dedicated search team and this is their first push. It is not yet perfect but it is a vast improvement on what…

  • edgeio secures $5m series A financing

    I may be biased but I think edgeio is one day going to be a great company 🙂 Well today we made a few announcements and several people have picked up on them. Firstly, we have secured a Series A round of financing, led by Intel Capital. Secondly we have launched a Chinese language web…

  • edgeio and Craigslist revisited

    Bob Wyman of Pubsub has posted a response to the Techdirt post about CraigsList and edgeio. I think Bob’s post is great. I’m almost embarrassed I didn’t say it myself. My only excuse is I was kind of taking the openness of edgeio as a given. But Bob is right. It needs spelling out.

  • edgeio announces support for YouTube, Google Video, Skype and PayPal!

    I just posted an item onto the edgeio blog announcing a new set of services edgeio supports. Check it out here: http://blog.edgeio.com/?p=27 We’re really excited about the prospects of video classifieds with VoIP and Payments.