Comments on: Edgeio, a Web 2.0 answer to Craigslist? http://venturebeat.com/2006/02/21/edgeio-a-web-20-answer-to-craigslist/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:29:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: chew shop http://venturebeat.com/2006/02/21/edgeio-a-web-20-answer-to-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-3454 chew shop Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:41:02 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/vc/?p=1147#comment-3454 <strong>Edegio: The future of classified advertising?</strong> From Jeff Jarvis: I got a preview of Michael Arrington’s Edgeio — the classified system for the distributed future — and I think it is more important than it looks. Edgeio as it stands is pretty simple: You tag a Edegio: The future of classified advertising?

From Jeff Jarvis: I got a preview of Michael Arrington’s Edgeio — the classified system for the distributed future — and I think it is more important than it looks. Edgeio as it stands is pretty simple: You tag a

]]> By: bala http://venturebeat.com/2006/02/21/edgeio-a-web-20-answer-to-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-3453 bala Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:19:01 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/vc/?p=1147#comment-3453 seriously how many people maintain blogs, and how many of them (who has blogs) post their classifieds in their blogs better idea might be develop IE/Mozilla classified listing tool bar, give out $5 to download or something and people can click on the tool bar to list the classified (another model is oodle, but again craigslist banned them crawling the site, limited lifetime if all the websites ban oodle crawling) forget about blogs, tags...all this web 2.0 mania, joe next door does not understand all these things to sell used tv!! -bala seriously how many people maintain blogs, and how many of them (who has blogs) post their classifieds in their blogs

better idea might be develop IE/Mozilla classified listing tool bar, give out $5 to download or something and people can click on the tool bar to list the classified (another model is oodle, but again craigslist banned them crawling the site, limited lifetime if all the websites ban oodle crawling)

forget about blogs, tags…all this web 2.0 mania, joe next door does not understand all these things to sell used tv!!

-bala

]]> By: Dylan Salisbury http://venturebeat.com/2006/02/21/edgeio-a-web-20-answer-to-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-3452 Dylan Salisbury Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:01:41 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/vc/?p=1147#comment-3452 Isn't this kind of "architecture" going to make it easier for discriminatory and/or fraudulent posts to get a wider distribution than they would on Craigslist? Isn’t this kind of “architecture” going to make it easier for discriminatory and/or fraudulent posts to get a wider distribution than they would on Craigslist?

]]> By: Nathaniel Brown http://venturebeat.com/2006/02/21/edgeio-a-web-20-answer-to-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-3451 Nathaniel Brown Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:08:12 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/vc/?p=1147#comment-3451 That teacher may or may not "know" what a blog is, but I am sure they have visited one or two sites which have indeed been a blog. In addition, whether users know what RSS is or what a Tag is, when they view categories generated from tags or content syndicated by converged RSS feeds, that teacher is indeed using this technology which they may know know the name of. Technology these days has two users. The publisher, or distributor, and those consuming the technology. It is extremely important to differentiate against the two. Whereby, the distributor who is of course the minority, will serve 80% majority being the consumers. Consumers will be better off with advanced syndication technologies such as this, as distributors will be equiped with better tools to create, which consequently equips consumers with better content to absorb. That teacher may or may not “know” what a blog is, but I am sure they have visited one or two sites which have indeed been a blog. In addition, whether users know what RSS is or what a Tag is, when they view categories generated from tags or content syndicated by converged RSS feeds, that teacher is indeed using this technology which they may know know the name of.

Technology these days has two users. The publisher, or distributor, and those consuming the technology. It is extremely important to differentiate against the two. Whereby, the distributor who is of course the minority, will serve 80% majority being the consumers. Consumers will be better off with advanced syndication technologies such as this, as distributors will be equiped with better tools to create, which consequently equips consumers with better content to absorb.

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