Hey Michael, cool product, actually really cool. There might be a way for us to work together if you’re interested in hitting the college market via classifieds. We launch in Mid-March, but will be giving bloggers the first look/scoop before any press releases go out or traditional press go for the story. Anyway, congrats on the first public demo. I look forward to using Edgeio when it launches.

-Jason L. Baptiste

Hi,
do you have more details about Edgeio ?

Looks a nice idea!

Is this so you can finally sell that copy of The Search listed on Arrington.us? Just kidding, seems like there’s good potential as long as “listing” doesn’t become the most used tag by spam blogs - but I’m sure you’ve addressed that too.

Looks like a good idea if you can equal the ease of ise and quality of Craigslist. A great search function and spam filter would be key.

Mike,

“Business Week also has a review of EdgeIO presentation, and you’ll never see a TechCrunch profile of the company since Mike Arrington is one of the co-founders”

So you´ve decided not to profile your company on Techcrunch?. I´m sure it will get picked up immediately by the rest of the bloggers and more, but it must have been a tough decision having the most popular site for profiling web 2.0 companies if you have made that decision.

I think there are some serious serious flaws with this.

Like craig I block several hundred con artists and scammers per day. Ebay, Amazon etc all use IP address and X_forwarded_for etc to detect 95% of the cons and spam. Once you go to a distributed system you lose the ability to detect most of that stuff.

The nigerians and russians etc are going to create fake sites, and flood edegio with listings. You will then be lured to those other sites and enter your CC etc. Think Ebay phishing turning into blog listing phishing.

Mike-
Wow. really rad stuff. The team in OZ is doing some interesting things with classifieds and it was good to see that other people were on the same path.

Holy smokes this is cool.

-Kevin

With something like 30%+ of bloggers blogging for professional reasons, wouldn’t it make sense to create a metabase for resumes? This would be far more profitable and low risk then trying to clone ebay right out of the gate.

I would think that a metabase of resumes would gain mass adoption FAST, after all a huge percentage of bloggers are blogging to get work.

Compliments, this seems to be a wonderful implementation of the edge-content ideas. It seems so exactly because it is built to leverage some common behaviour (tagging in this case).

What a web site! I never heard about edgeio before i stumble on this blog. Way cool.