Classifieds aggregator Edgeio announces its new “marketplaces” commerce platform for bloggers and small publishers. Here’s a pretty comprehensive practical “walk through” and discussion from a publisher standpoint.
The idea of Edgeio was always that it would be a distribution vehicle for listings online wherever they might be — and not a destination. I haven’t spoken to CEO Keith Teare in more than a year and don’t know where his “head is at” strategically but he seems to still be plugging away in a hot but very crowded online classifieds environment.
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February 19, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Greg Hi
Long time no see. Thanks for writing about this. As for “still plugging away” etc. 🙂
Yep, we really are. We now have access to over 100m listings through our search engine at edgeio.com. A lot of those come from a real-time feed aggregator we have built. it integrates Amazon and eBay worldwide as well as CafePress. We can add many new providers to that quite quickly.
Our organic listings – uploaded to edgeio by publishers – now numbers around 2.3m active listings at any given time (compares with Craigslist’s 5m or so).
Obviously our unique angle is that we have a global ingestion engine (more than 16000 cities with data in edgeio, from 160 plus countries) and that the whole thing is self service.
Now, with marketplaces, we have a platform for others to build classifieds boards and earn revenue from them.
Lots more to come this year……
Best
keith Teare
ceo/founder/edgeio