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.