Caught up? Here’s everything from Blekko, Dash’s price, to Android sighting
The holiday break felt especially long this time, so here’s a longer roundup than usual — of everything you may have missed over the last few days:
Ebay’s Kijiji tries to tar Craiglist’s reputation — The NYT has a story about Kijiji, a competitor to online classifieds company Craigslist. The remarkable thing about the story is that it lets Kijiji executives associate Craigslist with offers of “sadomasochistic encounters and prostitutes,” without some sort of response from Craiglist…. Continue Reading
Edgeio launches marketplace widget for web publishers
Edgeio, a company that provides online classified services, is introducing an e-commerce widget for web publishers, to help them create marketplaces on their own sites.
The Palo Alto-based company now lets a web site owner put up their own digital information for sale and allows other sites to resell the information for a cut.
Amazon and other companies already offer affiliate programs, whereby web publishers can earn a percentage fee from directing users to Amazon’s site in… Continue Reading
Fred Wilson’s fortunes, sexy commenters & latest on Mojungle, MobiTV and Edgeio
The latest in the world of start-ups and venture capital:
Fred Wilson sells home listed at $37.5 million — Fred Wilson, the venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures in New York, who has one of the most widely read VC blogs, AVC, has sold his 15,000-square-foot townhouse in Manhattan. If it closed near the asking price, the 1847 mansion would be the most expensive single-family residence downtown, reports the Observer. In 1996, the home apparently sold for… Continue Reading
Edgeio buys its way to online real estate search
Silicon Valley classifieds start-up, Edgeio, has acquired a company that will allow Edgeio’s users to search significant amounts of real estate data.
If you think that is trivial, think again. Online real estate listings face a regulatory mess — related to the legally complicated Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system. The end result is that a Web site must have a direct relationship with an agent or with a regional MLS in order to show detailed data… Continue Reading
Edgeio gets $5 million to expand Web 2.0 classifieds site
Edgeio, a Menlo Park start-up trying to redefine the way people list classifieds, has raised $5 million in a first round of venture capital, and may raise more. Here is the release.
The round was led by Intel Capital and included an investment from Transcosmos.
The idea behind Edgeio is audacious because it seeks to do an end-run around the incumbents like Craigslist and others, by letting people bypass them entirely.
But in a notable development, some… Continue Reading