23 month ago
Linkorama : Edgeio ships Marketplaces - It lets you add classified ads and other board information to your blog
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Edgeio gets $5 million - Now the question becomes whether Edgeio has folded its end-run strategy too early — agreeing to play with the big boys, and thereby allowing them to co-opt Edgeio by keeping their users to themselves. But Edgeio is betting that becoming a “me
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35 month ago
kayodeok : A requiem (beta) for Edgeio - Edgeio, the much-hyped Web 2.0 tag-sale site, has only been live for a few hours, but it's already wearing a corpselike look
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35 month ago
kayodeok : About edgeio: Listings from the edge - edgeio dynamically organizes listings published from RSS enabled websites making them discoverable via the edgeio website and through an open set of web services
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35 month ago
kayodeok : Edgeio Thoughts (by Jeremy Zawodny) - I see a future in which the tools of today look like something from the stone age. Content publishing (blogging, if we still call it that), tagging, and including more rich/structured data will all be dramatically easier
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Alt Weeklies, San Francisco, Curiosity, and Bullshit - And realize that the reason Craig is eating your lunch is not merely because his information is better, or because he cares about being online and you don't, but because he's given people a place to connect with each other, instead of just being preached
Andy Baio : Anil responds to SFBG editor's rant on Craig Newmark - the editorial compared Craig's List to Wal-Mart [via]
jkottke : Anil on the conservatism of liberalism - Anil on the conservatism of liberalism (by way of explaining why Craigslist is taking away everyone else's classifieds business). "A complete unwillingness to be critical, an almost astoundingly low set of criteria for acceptance -- these aren't the trait
jimray : Anil Dash: Alt Weeklies, San Francisco, Curiosity, and Bullshit - "...a business model predicated on nickel-and-diming for rent ads or charging brokers a premium price for ALL CAPS in a listing, combined with some edge-of-legality back pages full of ads for whores is certainly not contributing to a community."
Douglas Bowman : Alt Weeklies, San Francisco, Curiosity, and Bullshit - When I read the SF Bay Guardian rant that Anil linked in his counter-rant, I was left with a foul taste in my mouth. Anil's qualified and well-written response nails it better than many of us could have. The reason Anil recommended management from his old
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45 month ago
jimray : Tribune not clueless, embraces Craigslist - The empire strikes back
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