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By Jackson West
Robert Yeager of Atlanta-based Cooqy feels there are problems with eBay’s feedback system. “eBay users have two personas — one as a Buyer, one as a Seller. eBay’s feedback forces a singular system for two competing interests. As a Buyer, I have to be worried about a seller retaliating against my feedback. [...]

By Andrew Schmitt
Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and Passive Optical Networks (PON) in particular have received an inordinate amount of attention from the financial community in the last year. Attention has been focused at every level of the value chain, from component companies that make chips and optics to Telecom Equipment and Set-Top box makers [...]

Vonage IPO post game analysis has begun, and there is a lot of interesting opinions out there. Mathew Ingram’s take is here. Andy has his take. I have Jon Arnold’s guest column coming up here, but more than anything, I just wanted to get your feedback and thoughts on the IPO. Take the poll!

Telegeography estimates that there were 221 million broadband lines worldwide at the end of 2005, and that number will reach 286 million by end of 2006, and 448 million by 2010. (Of course, this doesn’t include those who will be using 3G and other wireless technologies to access the Net at high speeds.)
Asia-Pacific [...]

Sprint-Nextel and Sling Media (makers of Sling Box) are in talks and trying to figure out ways to work together. Sprint is also talking to Orb Networks and Sony, betting that the three companies have the magic potion that will add more oomph to their mobile entertainment services.
Actually it is a smart strategy. Place Shifting [...]

Niall and I met with Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of open source project, WordPress, and founder of Automattic, this week and asked him about his experiences with starting, building and scaling WordPress.com and Akismet, the spam plug-in which is often coming to the rescue to most bloggers. Matt, outlined his way of doing things, and [...]