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EdgeIO: Graz is in Africa

A lot of fuss has been recently about Edgeio.com, a Web 2.0 application co-founded by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch. Described in short it is some thing like eBay for the Web 2.0. But: After taking a look at the new service I found a serious error in the semantics of the metadata they are using: While Edgeio allows to filter by the region and country you live in to find products and things in your area, the area relations are not quite correct. After typing in Graz, which is a city in a southern Austria region called Styria (German: Steiermark), the system found Graz, Steiermark (en. Styria), Algeria in Africa.
Well that’s something new for me … according to Edgeio I now live in Africa … seems to fit the idea of carnival / Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Grass.