Edgeio Seeks to Combine Blogging and Classifieds

Posted on March 13, 2006

Edgeio is a new start-up company that is combining blogging and online classifieds. Edgeio is now live and allows bloggers to tag classified-related entries on their blog. Any tagged listings will show up on Edgeio's website. There is no charge for Edgeio listings. Edgeio has also added a feature called Instand Add for those having trouble with tags and pings.

Using Instant Add you can provide us with the URL of any RSS enabled website, well grab the most recent listings, and then you tell us if you want them published on edgeio. You can even add new tags to an item through this process. Give it a try. Just enter the URL of your website here. Of course, you can still publish on edgeio by tagging posts with the "listing" tag and notifying a ping server, but if you want to bypass all that then "Instant Add" was designed for you.

There is a lot of buzz right now over web classifieds. It will be interesting to see if Edgeio or another company will be able to combine blogging and classified advertising. Edgeio says it already has 75,000 items listed from more than 1,400 cities

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