Comments on: Edgeio: edge aggregator http://blog.forret.com/2006/02/edgeio-edge-aggregator/ and I mean it Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:45:03 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Peter http://blog.forret.com/2006/02/edgeio-edge-aggregator/comment-page-1/#comment-234328 Peter Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:09:06 +0000 http://peter.smoothouse.com/2006/02/27/edgeio-edge-aggregator/#comment-234328 Man, I'm a visionary! Man, I’m a visionary!

]]> By: Pascal Van Hecke http://blog.forret.com/2006/02/edgeio-edge-aggregator/comment-page-1/#comment-234235 Pascal Van Hecke Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:06:38 +0000 http://peter.smoothouse.com/2006/02/27/edgeio-edge-aggregator/#comment-234235 Quoting my own Tweet, ahum: "pascalvanhecke Yahoo Searchmonkey http://snurl.com/25ohm is the "generic edge aggregator" @pforret wrote about more than 2 years ago http://snurl.com/25ohj 2 minutes ago from twhirl" Quoting my own Tweet, ahum:

“pascalvanhecke Yahoo Searchmonkey http://snurl.com/25ohm is the “generic edge aggregator” @pforret wrote about more than 2 years ago http://snurl.com/25ohj 2 minutes ago from twhirl”

]]> By: Pascal Van Hecke http://blog.forret.com/2006/02/edgeio-edge-aggregator/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Pascal Van Hecke Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:03:00 +0000 http://peter.smoothouse.com/2006/02/27/edgeio-edge-aggregator/#comment-408 On the concept of an Edge Aggregator: The Technorati people should be inspired by your ideas to extend the Technorati api http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/TechnoratiApi ! On a related idea that came to mind: http://rssping.com/ is an effort for enriching the info sent to pinging services, so that blog search engines do not need to visit the blogs anymore. As far as I can see, it could be used to send the semantically significant parts of a posting (or the entire posting for that matter). However, as with so many lofty efforts, it doesn't work. Since blog search engines compete each other on features, none of them will limit itself to the minimum agreed upon in the standards of rssping. On EdgeIO itself: as nice as the concept of distributed databases may be, in this particular example, it is just not going to work. There is no way a ebay-type of service can thrive on the listings submitted by those few tagging and microformat freaks around the planet. And the reliance on that "listing" tag makes it ridiculously vulnerable for spam or sabotage (even Google's Base doesn't seem to be able to cope with spam: http://mashable.com/?p=188 ) (And as you said, if it DID, competing services like technorati, IceRocket, could set up a competitor in a few days.) On the concept of an Edge Aggregator:

The Technorati people should be inspired by your ideas to extend the Technorati api http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/TechnoratiApi !

On a related idea that came to mind:

http://rssping.com/ is an effort for enriching the info sent to pinging services, so that blog search engines do not need to visit the blogs anymore. As far as I can see, it could be used to send the semantically significant parts of a posting (or the entire posting for that matter).
However, as with so many lofty efforts, it doesn’t work. Since blog search engines compete each other on features, none of them will limit itself to the minimum agreed upon in the standards of rssping.

On EdgeIO itself:

as nice as the concept of distributed databases may be, in this particular example, it is just not going to work. There is no way a ebay-type of service can thrive on the listings submitted by those few tagging and microformat freaks around the planet. And the reliance on that “listing” tag makes it ridiculously vulnerable for spam or sabotage (even Google’s Base doesn’t seem to be able to cope with spam: http://mashable.com/?p=188 ) (And as you said, if it DID, competing services like technorati, IceRocket, could set up a competitor in a few days.)

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