• by David Goetzl  @dgoetzl, February 28, 2007

Members of the committee trying to launch the eBay-powered online media exchange acknowledge they've lacked something in the PR area, that they've failed in explaining the system's purpose and logistics. Now, they may have more to question: At the conference panel discussing the operation, eBay executive Howard Rosenberg said an introductory site -- ebaymediamarketplace.com -- went live Wednesday morning. By 9 PM EST, entering the URL returned a "the page cannot be displayed" message.