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Press release for download

Product Description given to Gnomedex Attendees

News from the Web on this:

Digg - here
Techmeme - here and here
ReadWrite web - here
TechCrunch - here
Venturebeat - here
Gnomedex - here
Jeff Jarvis - here
Dan Farber - ZDNet - here
Rob Hof at BusinessWeek - here
Bub.blicio.us - here
Mashable - here
Forecast Blog - here

It has been a great effort by the team at edgeio to get this launched. The company now has 6000 advertisers who will, by September, have 29 million classified ads in the system, and with the launch of “Classified Boards” in March recruited its first 1000 publishers. Now with “Transactional Classifieds” the number of publishers who can use edgeio will grow enormously. The vision of a Classified Ad Network for the Internet is one step closer.

As promised John Dowd - the product manager for edgeio marketplaces - opened up the beta of the Classified Boards product to the public today.TechCrunch France has already used the platform to launch Crunchboard France.

The announcement is here; Dan Farber has covered it here, and Robert Scoble has an exclusive video walkthrough on the Scobleshow.

I really believe John’s product will help create a classifieds ecosystem for the Internet in the same way Adsense created an advertising ecosystem. Now, just like newspapers and magazines, any web site can earn revenue by putting up a classifieds board and taking paid listings (free boards are also supported).

Congrats to the entire team.

TechMeme conversation here