Edgeio – the new ebay killer?
Posted by Patrick on February 20th, 2006
Edgeio has been getting a lot of buzz recently and rightly so. Tom Raftery was lucky enough to be able to give it a test drive yesterday and had this to say about it on his blog.
I received an invite to take a sneak peek at Edgeio this morning – Edgeio is Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame?Äôs latest start-up. The tagline for Edgeio is ?ÄúListings from the edge?Äù so the name comes from the word ?Äúedge?Äù and ?Äúio?Äù (input/output?).
The idea behind Edgeio is that people can advertise items for sale from their website or blog and if they include the ?ÄúListing?Äù tag with the post, the Edgeio site will automatically find the post and List it on Edgeio. Edgeio will therefore become a free version of eBay (you won?Äôt have to pay to be listed on Edgeio, you simply post on your site including the ?Äúlisting?Äù tag in your post) where you maintain ownership of the data!
This definitely sounds like a very nice, well thought out application, but I don?Äôt think it can compete with the likes of eBay as the guys at razorshine seem to think. The reason Edgeio, as it is now, doesn?Äôt stand up well with eBay is that there is a critical piece of the puzzle that is missing and that is a reputation engine. Reputation is what makes eBay a trusted market place. ¬?There is, however, a market for Edgeio ?Äì the same marketplace now dominated by Craig’s List and Google’s adsense.
I am really anxious to check out Edgeio for myself.
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on February 28th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
[...] ¬?[update 3] I thought I should finish off this post as it really lacked any sort of conclusion. Looking at the service more and more,¬? I agree with the guys over at corporate blogging that edgeio is more of a competitor to craigs list and the classified services than ebay. The major worry for edgeio must be what happens if other providers add the ability to scan for the listings tag.¬?How difficult¬?is this? and if they do what is going to make a user pick one service over another? Right now, ignoring all this, the one thing that bugs me about edgeio is that its not easy enough to get all the information from your post into the right sections on edgeio – its too geeky! Mind you it is mostly geeks who post to blogs anyhow today so maybe that isn’t so much of a problem… [...]