I got my password for the Edgeio demo the other day and I logged in and couldn’t think of any way to use this service. What is Edgeio?
edgeio dynamically organizes listings published from RSS enabled websites 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.
As I was saying, I couldn’t think of a use for this service - why would I have an RSS for items for sale on my site? Then I read Library Stuff and saw Steven’s idea.
Instead of weeding books from the catalog that you were going to sell at a book sale, post the book information to a blog (make sure to use Structured Blogging) and tag it as “listing”. This way, Edgeio will index the content.
What a great idea! We are planning on setting up a database for books for sale at the library - and all I have to do is set up an RSS feed and TaDa! they’ll be listed on Edgeio. Anyone else have ideas for how to use this service in libraries?
