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Audiences Are NOT Created Equal — Media is about conversation and participation. Consumers can create their own media. Value is being created at the edge. You've heard all the New Media maxims. — The problem, as many people have stated many times, is that the more everyone participates …

Why the backchannel is bad for RSS — This is a verbatim copy of an emal I sent to Brad Feld of Mobius Venture Capital, cc'd to Rogers Cadenhead and John Palfrey. — Brad, I appreciate you taking a proactive role, but there's something that's not right about all this …

BlackBerry case: No shutoff, for now — update RICHMOND, Va.—More than 3 million U.S. BlackBerry users won't lose their service—at least for now. — In a hearing on Friday, U.S. District Judge James Spencer decided against issuing an immediate ruling on whether to impose an injunction …
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BlackBerry Hearing Ends With No Ruling on U.S. Service Shutdown — Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — A judge considering a halt in U.S. BlackBerry e-mail service criticized both sides in the case for not settling their patent dispute and said he will rule later on a shutdown.
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Origami video: the real deal? — Much like everyone else, I've been wondering what Microsoft's Origami Project is. The speculation runs rampant but it appears that you might not have to wait a few weeks to find out what Origami truly is. Marketing firm DigitalKitchen must have the ad campaign …

Magnet madness to hit Intel iBook line — Only Apple could take a phenomenon as ancient and rudimentary as magnetism and make it seem so profound. — The Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker has slowly and subtly been adding magnetic innovations to its computer systems over the last six months and now looks ripe to add yet another.
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How Watermarks Fail — I wrote Wednesday about Randy Picker's suggestion of using digital watermarks to embed users' personal financial information into media files, to discourage users from sharing the files. Today, I want to talk more generally about watermarks and how they tend to fail.
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I accept: Payment through Google — Google is gathering the e-commerce pieces together. Today they put up Google Payments so you can buy stuff and pay through Google. It's visible for certain items on base.google.com - like this: Wanna buy a rock? — Combine base and payment …
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Google Base Is The Merchant of Record, Now That's Interesting — I wrote a short post today on Google Base now intermediating payments between buyers and sellers. One point that I feel compelled to elaborate on a bit more is that Google is apparently the merchant of record in these purchases.
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Blogging for newbies — When I encourage people to start a blog here's what I suggest they do. — First, create a new weblog on one of the free services, like Blogger or MSN Spaces. It takes about five minutes, and is about as hard as creating an email address on Yahoo or Hotmail, and represents less of a commitment.
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Space Invaders wall decals — Cool wall graphics company Blik sells a line of big space invader decals in assorted colors. The starter pack includes eight 13" diameter aliens and the missile base for $45. — Link (via Daddy Types)

AOpen MiniPC Revealed … PCs recently have taken on a new look when it comes to small form factors giving compliment to Apple — As the PC market continues to show its age, many manufacturers are changing focus and research to reflect niche markets - with or without the help of the channel partners.

iPod "Hi-Fi" Boombox arriving next week — February 24, 2006 - Among the products Apple will debut at next Tuesday's media event will be the iPod "Hi-Fi" boombox, reliable sources have informed Think Secret. Details are scarce but sources have indicated the product will deliver unique capabilities beyond …

BLOGOSPHERE TIPPING POINT AND HAMMERTIME! — The blogosphere is growing at a phenomenal pace adding new bloggers everyday. I am pleased to mention today (February 24, 2006) that one of my favorite authors, Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker columnist and bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink, has launched a blog.