{"id":143,"date":"2006-02-28T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/02\/28\/edgeio-launches\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T19:51:09","slug":"edgeio-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/28\/edgeio-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgeio launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Development of an open platform for listings continues with yesterday&#8217;s launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgeio.com\/\">Edgeio<\/a>. This service picks up on blog post that are marked as a listing using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microformats.org\/\">Microformat<\/a>-like tag and collects them on a website for users to search through. They have some nifty interfaces in place to allow you to zoom in on listings that are close to you. One thing they haven&#8217;t addressed yet (but are aware of) is the problem of fake listings and spam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/structuredblogging.org\/\">Structured Blogging<\/a> is working in the same field, but from a different angle (focussing on the bloggers, not the site that collects listings). I wrote about them earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/open.info.nl\/archief\/2006\/01\/18\/bloggen-met-semantiek\/\">over here<\/a> (in Dutch). The biggest challenge for the Edgeio crew is probably gaining critical mass to be able to compete with the likes of eBay.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was blogging about this yesterday, here are some of the posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/02\/27\/edgeio-launches\/\">TechCrunch \u00bb Edgeio Launches<\/a><\/li>\n\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/edgeio_launches.php\">Read\/WriteWeb: edgeio launches with same goals as Structured Blogging<\/a><\/li>\n\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/webreakstuff.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/edgeio-launches\">WeBreakStuff \u00bb Edgeio launches<\/a><\/li>\n\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2006\/02\/27\/edgeio-launches-finally\/\">GigaOM : \u00bb Edgeio Launches, Finally<\/a><\/li>\n\n<ins datetime=\"2006-02-28T12:22:20+00:00\">  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellbeattie.com\/notebook\/1008840.html\">Russell Beattie Notebook &#8211; Playing with EdgeIO<\/a><\/li><\/ins>\n\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development of an open platform for listings continues with yesterday&#8217;s launch of Edgeio. This service picks up on blog post that are marked as a listing using a Microformat-like tag and collects them on a website for users to search through. They have some nifty interfaces in place to allow you to zoom in on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/28\/edgeio-launches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edgeio launches<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[29,106,109,108,82,87],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-blogging","tag-edgeio","tag-microformats","tag-semantic-web","tag-tagging","tag-web-20"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}