Wondering about edgeio

There's been a huge amount of buzz about edgeio and I've been thinking about it since first hearing about it on Techcrunch. It does seem to be the start of something cool, and probably we'll give our users the ability to tag their jobs to show up there (sometime soon).

Over at Techdirt, a question was posed (which is something that has been asked in different ways by a few people I know):

What problem do blog classifieds solve?

I wrote a comment to that post which can be summarized as... at least in the jobs area there is a deep need that is not being met by the big job boards, but it doesn't seem that edgeio's first iteration is really addressing it either.

What it does have though, is a lot of traffic and time. It's only been out publicly for a day or two and so I do think (hope) that we'll see interesting developments from them in the coming weeks and months.