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Kevin C. Tofel / Kevin 2.0:
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 …
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Ryan Block / engadget.com:
Microsoft's Origami project — So today Microsoft officially flippedthe switch on the buzz machine for their Origami Project — an atypical viral marketing manuveur for a company whoseproducts are usually known about years ahead of time. Scoble says its a device, theInternet's lighting up with rumors — is it the Xboxportable?
jkOnTheRun:
Origami video? — Speculation about the Origami Project is running rampant everywhere and my podcasting buddy Kevin Tofel may have found some hard video via a comment on an engadget post discussing the mysterious project. Kevin points out if you go the the website for marketing firm DigitalKitchen …
Matt / Burning Questions:
2 Years Older, and 208,474 Feeds Wiser — Happy Birthday to us! Though the company was founded back in October of 2003, today is the official two-year anniversary of our pre-alpha launch. (Did you know "grappa" comes before "alpha?" Cheers.) — FeedBurner was born from [jets] …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
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 …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Ruling May Undercut Google in Fight Over Its Book Scans — A recent federal court decision in California might undermine a pillar of defense for Google in its dispute with publishers and authors who are challenging the company's right to scan books that are still under copyright.
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John Borland / CNET News.com:
Google puts National Archives video online — A marching band begins to play. The United Newsreel logo, an eagle in a martial pose, flickers onto the black-and-white screen. Bold letters proclaim: "Nazi War Plants Blasted by R.A.F. in Night Raids." — This is a World War II era newsreel …
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Why the backchannel is bad for RSS — This is a verbatim copy of an emal I sent to Brad Feld of Mobius Venture Capital. — Brad, I appreciate you taking a proactive role, but there's something that's not right about all this — we need to get out of the backchannel and have this discussion in public.
Rob Fahey / gamesindustry.biz:
Rebel Faction - Arena.net's Jeff Strain — First it was a wildly successful MMOG with no levelling up and no subscription fee, now it's episodic content, digital distribution and an ambitious six-monthly release cycle. Is no challenge too much for Guild Wars creators Arena.net?
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Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:
The meaning of the Blogosphere is 42: So long and thanks for all the fish — Duncan Riley> For those of you who have never read Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy before, it is truly the pinancle of absursidisty, or some would say comedic science fiction, and yet Adams had a knack for inserting moments …
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CNET News.com:
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 …
AppleInsider:
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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