edgeio Invitation Codes
edgeio is starting to roll out!
The invitation code came today.
The site UI is excellent. Concept amazing.
This should be a game changing way of users interacting.
A perfect example of the possible emergent properties of small pieces loosely joined.
From the edgeio About page:
edgeio dynamically organizes listings published from RSS enabled websites making them discoverable via the edgeio website and through an open set of web services. Our goal is to give publishers of all sizes the means to control how their content is published, discovered, and consumed. By doing so, edgeio provides everyone easy, up to date, access to content from the Internet's 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. Our goal is to give publishers of all sizes the means to control how their content is published, discovered, and consumed. By doing so, edgeio provides everyone easy, up to date, access to content from the Internet's edge.
One possible issue is whether or not bloggers will actually want to sell stuff off of their own blogs, but there are so many easy ways to work around that issue - bloggers can easily set up an extra "commerce blog" linked (or not linked) off of their main blog and/or edgeio can easily provide "commerce blog post" space off of their own platform - so this should not be an insurmountable issue in the least.
This UserDriven Blog was started to highlight systems like edgeio. And while many user-driven systems have launched over the last half year or so, they were pretty much variations of the same thing, and that is where both interest and the postings here started to wane... but edgeio brings back the excitement of the possibilities of truly elegant and useful user-driven systems. (Thanks!!!)
I have also been taking a sneak peak at Advolution ("The next revolution in search engines") which is another user-driven system that could also possibly be very game-changing in a very different way (note that a large part of what they are up to is still only available via a password protected development site).
Now that edgeio has provided remotivation to start blogging again, look for a post on that soon...
And, since you have read this far and are thus obviously interested, and, as another blogger has already publicly posted it - try the invite code: LAGUNA
More good info from many different perspectives:
edgeio blog: Edgeio Invitation Codes
Edgeio Edges Toward Launch--and a Clash with E-Commerce Giants?
TechCrunch leads Silicon Valley Web renaissance | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Sneak peek at edgeio! Tom Raftery’s I.T. views
AMCP Tech Blog: Preview of Edgeio, the eBay Killer
White African: Edgio: Listings From the Long-Tail
razorshine: edgio - an ebay killer?
AccMan Pro - Dennis Howlett on innovation for professional accountants - edgeio scores a hit
getanewbrowser.com: listings on steroids
Geek News Central Revealing Technical News and useful links
Devin Reams | Review: edgeio | devinreams.com
/Message: First Glimpse: Edgeio
Holy market disruption at Marketing Begins At Home
Like It Matters: Sales from the Edge: Meet Edgeio
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