I listened to a Gilmor Gang podcast the other day (even though I cannot stand anyone that uses the term podosphere) and was a little surprised by Mike Arrington’s hatred of Google. Not because I don’t agree with him, but because Google’s strategy seems to help Edgeio.
Edgeio’s future success is pretty much based on you wanting to keep all of your content in one place. If it wasn’t I would just go to Craigslist and Ebay and be done with it, there are really only two places you need to go. But Edgeio seems to be based on the theory that in the future you won’t need/want to go anywhere, you’ll have all of your content in one place and the world will just find in through the aggregation republication process. So why doesn’t Arrington want Google (who actually stood up to the DOJ) to lead the way in the content storage game, and instead prefers MSN (who said okay to the DOJ).
There has to be more going on than is directly apparent. Edgeio needs people to get used to the idea that all of their data can be in one place and that that’s a good thing. If not, they’re done.