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edgeio dynamically organizes listings published on RSS enabled websites and through edgeio listings blogs 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.

Anyone can publish content on edgeio. With an RSS enabled website, you can publish items on your own site and then direct edgeio to index and organize your content. You can also publish items directly on edgeio using a listings blog. Either way, publishers remain in control. No more listing fees, complicated forms to fill in, and for RSS publishers no struggling to keep content synchronized across multiple websites. Just post it, use appropriate tags, and edgeio takes care of the rest.

A blogger can publish an item for sale and have it listed on edgeio within a matter of seconds. An auto dealer with an RSS enabled website can publish their inventory in real-time to edgeio's network. Using tags indicating location, realtors can reach buyers in specific communities around the world. Podcasters and video bloggers, can use tags to describe their work making it easily discoverable in the edgeio network of websites. Individuals without their own RSS enabled website can publish directly onto edgeio with a listings blog that edgeio creates for you.

1. We monitor every RSS feed looking for posts having the tag "listing". Using Ping Servers this process happens within seconds of new content being published. Click here to see how Ping Servers work and which Ping Servers edgeio supports.
2. New items found with the "listing" tag are automatically added to edgeio where they can be discovered using search or by navigating our real-time taxonomy. The edgeio taxonomy leverages all tags used to describe an item and a concept called Clustered Tagging. Click here to learn more about edgeio's taxonomy and clustered tagging.
3. Using trackbacks and comments, publishers are notified when their items are added to edgeio. Click here to learn more about trackbacks.
4. Publishers can claim their blogs using the edgeio website. Once claimed, items can be enhanced by adding additional tags, including metadata like price, and specifying where the item is located. Click here to learn more about claiming blogs.
5. Content published through edgeio is automatically made available to our partners through an open set of APIs. This provides even more exposure to publishers.
6. Users who discover an item on edgeio can contact the publisher via email. edgeio creates an anonymous email address for each item in order to protect publishers from spam. Click here to learn more about anonymous emails.

Do you have a large number of items listed on your website? Did you know that by publishing them on edgeio you could drive additional traffic to your business? There are no listing fees, no complicated forms to fill out, and you maintain full control over your website. edgeio is committed to helping your business succeed and we will do everything possible to deliver you qualified customers!

This document provides more detailed instructions on how to construct an RSS / ATOM feed that gives you the most control over how items appear on edgeio.
Data Acquisition through RSS / ATOM  

edgeio provides everyone easy, up to date, access to content from the Internet's edge. You can use edgeio's keyword search functionally to quickly retrieve specific listings, or browse listings using edgeio's dynamic taxonomy and geographic filtering.

The edgeio taxonomy functions like traditional internet taxonomies. A user looking for an Apple iPod, might first choose the category For Sale. Next, they could choose iPod, and finally they might select iPod Nano to get a list of all iPod Nanos listed on edgeio. What makes edgeio different is that we do not define the taxonomy; publishers do by including tags with their items. Using clustered tagging, edgeio is continuously optimizing the taxonomy to match the latest content.

All results presented through edgeio can be filtered by geography. Just give edgeio a city, state, or country and we'll show you the closest results. Once a location is set, you can quickly expand or narrow your search using a simple slider control.

edgeio makes all results sets available through RSS. So, if you don't find what you are looking for today, subscribe to the RSS feed and you'll be notified when something becomes available. Taken together, the geography filtering and edgeio taxonomy create a dynamic hub of content from the Internet's edge without requiring publishers to do anything more than publish and tag content from their website.