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 will go silent for a while until Looksmart integrates it into their ad platform. Vast.com has already gone live with the real estate assets they acquired. As for me. i am playing with a few things: 1. I have office space at 654 High in
[read more]...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 – here Mashable – here Forecast Blog – here It has been a great effort by the team at edgeio to get this launched. The company now has 6000 advertisers who will, by September, have 29 million classified ads in the system, and with the launch
[read more]...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 Scobleshow. http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=3F34K2L1 I really believe John’s product will help create a classifieds ecosystem for the Internet in the same way Adsense created an advertising ecosystem. Now, just like newspapers and magazines, any web site can earn revenue by putting up a classifieds board and taking
[read more]...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 allowing any web site to create a free classifieds board, and to take listings into it – either in return for a fee or for free – is core to the first marketplaces product – Classifieds Boards. Theoretically this should make it possible for web
[read more]...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 small web site as it currently is for the big guys. The first product on the platform is “Listings Boards”. This will make it possible for any web site owner to create any kind of listings board and decide what to charge to list on
[read more]...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 the Internet since 1994 will continue. But more and more of the revenue will be made in the foothills, not the mountains. 2. If the major destination sites want to participate in it they will need to find a way to be involved in the
[read more]...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 was there before (also significantly better than Googlebase search – which is a primary comparison for us). As the post says we have decided to go with the flow to some extent. Many listings based sites are uploading their listings to edgeio and we are
[read more]...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 site at mulu100.com. Thirdly we have completed the filing of our patent application, originally initiated in October 2005. There is a lot more coming from us, and some of it quite soon. But this is a great day for me and my partners, Mike Arrington,
[read more]...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.
[read more]...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.
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