You might want to fix a link... in "users can download the application for free _here_", due to the 'http://' being left off of the address, it points to 'http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/www.desktop.ebay.com'.

Anyway... It is interesting how these kinds of things have become more popular in recent years. The failed 'push' initiatives around the IE4 era were just ahead of their time, apparently.