An early Look At Edgeio Widgets

My old friend Keith Teare has been promising me plenty of widgets when Edgeio get's out the door, and here's the first review by Monkey on Wordpress:
A Look At The Edgeio Marketplaces Beta

This free service allows anyone to create a listing board for whatever they want, is fully hosted by edgeio and offered with a risk-free offer.

Edgeio was launched last year and was hyped as being the craigslist killer. While it’s uncertain if this new company can uproot the foothold that craigslist has managed to maintain right now in the online classifieds arena, over time we may see a significant shift in where people place their classified ads on-line thanks to edgeio’s marketplace tool.

So you set up your own marketplace in whatever you want. Configure it how you want. It's a monetizing service - a welcome addition to what is now a raft of alternative options for monetizing your site if you want to kick out the AdSense.

Then we come to one of the most mystical sentence I've read in a long while:

The third page is all about editing and placing a widget on your site.

So, you create a listing board, then you configure your widget and grab your code. Or, in this perfect world, no doubt use the soon to be incorporated Snipperoo button to add your listings board to your blog.

As soon as I get an account I'll try out a widget and put it up here. In the meantime, you can check it out at earningscast.