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To day I was invited to test out Edgeio, a Web 2.0 version of eBay. Edgeio was co-founded by TechCrunch writer, Michael Arrington and RealNames founder, Keith Teare. Edgeio is a listing service, much like eBay and allows users to list jobs, housing, services, cars, and anything else you can think of.

From what I've heard, you can start posting items on your blog that you want to sell, tagging them with "listing", and the Edgeio bots will pick them up and add them to their index. Edgeio will also try to send a trackback to the blog post so the blogger can find away to edit the details of the item. This feature will be very popular with bloggers and webmasters alike. Edgeio also wants to make sure that the buyer is inline, so you'll have one-click access to their eBay reputation.

You maybe wondering just how Edgeio will make their cash. Well, they plan to charge powersellers 25 cents to get top positions on their listings page and they are looking into running a third-party contextual ad service, possibly Google Adsense. This will allow local sellers to have advertising in the right column. Edgeio creates RSS feeds for local listings, items for sale, and almost anything else you can think of. This is another area that advertising could be implemented. Anyone with a RSS-enabled website can publish content through Edgeio.

I'm still in the process of playing around with Edgeio, but I can guarantee that you that this service will be big. With such influential people like Michael Arrington leading the party, they can't go wrong. People that have signed up are starting to get their invitation codes in their e-mail.