ASSAULT ON EBAY... EDGEIO LAUNCHES AND GOOGLE BASE DOING PAYMENTS

Keith Teare (Realnames) and Michael Arrington (Techcrunch) has launched Edgeio, a new approach to classified advertising. TechCrunch (of course by a guest blogger:) has a review here.

Bill Burnham has a couple good posts on Google's move into eBay's space, "Uh oh EBay: Google Base is now facilitating payments" and "Google Base Is The Merchant of Record, Now That's Interesting."

Some more info from Google's Blog here .