Edgeio, the service created by Michael Arrington of techcrunch and others sent me a password to check it out. I did and i like the concept.

Basically, Edgeio allows bloggers who assign a tag to a blog post ("listing" is one of them) to have this post published one edgeio, along with potentially many others, thereby creating an ubber marketplace that aggregates, organizes and re-publish gazillions of listings from all around the web. 

I very much like the idea of writing my listing on my blog, without having to register or create an account and let technology find me a buyer, web-wide. This is directly in line with the concept of personomies in the sense that it enables me to find a buyer. Not e-bay or craigslist. Like Jarvis says, this model could be adopted by other services like google and yahoo answers, dating services, movie reviews.

But I have one question:

what is the barrier to entry?

Edgeio is essentially asking bloggers to categorize content that will be freely available around the web...This means, for example, that google could decide to add all posts tagged "listings" to its google base, or a newspaper to add it to its classified section, or have indeed.com had all posts tagged to "jobs" and so on and so forth.

I am not sure I understand how edgeio will make it since it is bound to face fierce competition from the big guys but hats off to them for putting the idea on the table and good luck for the future.

edgeio, personomies