I can’t visit a memetracker like Memeorandum or TailRank without seeing something about the Origami project. There’s pictures, on Engadget, and there are videos and other speculations elsewhere.
My own Origamisms started back last Spring when I visited Otto Berkes in his office and saw that he was tinkering with dozens of portable devices. Otto was one of the four guys, I hear, who started the Xbox team, but now was working in building 32, which is where the Tablet PC team was hanging out. He showed me some wood prototypes that excited me. They were small, would open up new usage models (I want to buy one for my son, for instance, to take to school to take notes on) and were fairly low cost.
Anyway, I’m going to keep my mouth shut about the rest of the deal, cause Otto and his team deserves their day in the sun. Let’s get back together on March 2 after the announcement and see what you think.
thanks for clearing that up Rob, thats certainly a good sign that design might have changed, haiku style… hmm. i cant wait, i just hope these devices are ready to market and we dont have to wait half a year after anouncement.
NDA or not, Tablet PC or not, this looks like a very interesting piece of hardware. But evolutionary rather than revolutionary, which is still very exciting!
NDA or not, Tablet PC or not, this looks like a very interesting piece of hardware. But evolutionary rather than revolutionary, which is still very exciting!
[...] Domani Microsoft dovrebbe annunciare ufficialmente "Origami", un "nuovo tipo di dispositivo" simile ad un tablet pc del quale si sa ancora poco o nulla ma che da tempo sta montando la curiosità dei navigatori e dei blogger. Una comunicazione criptica basata su un filmato e su una conferma ufficiosa di Robert Scoble, blogger dipendente di Microsoft. [...]
[...] Wenn man dem Glauben schenken darf, was man so liest, dürfte es sich bei Origami auf jeden Fall um ein tragbares Gerät handeln. Gestützt wird diese Aussage vor allem von der Aussage des Microsoft “Technology Evangelist” Richard Scoble in seinem Blog: “Ich weiß, dass Origami der Codename für eine neue Art eines Geräts ist. Es wird ein preiswertes, tragbares Gerät sein.“ [...]
[...] Um executivo e blogueiro da Microsoft, Richard Scoble, teceu comentários sobre o Origami, dizendo que se tratava de um portátil de baixo custo desenvolvido por Otto Berkes, que tinha trabalhado no projeto do console de games Xbox. Mas depois de sua ‘confissão involuntária’, em outro post, avisava aos seus leitores: esperem para ver. (É comum você encontrar mensagem ‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria‘ em razão do sucesso que o blog alcançou nos últimos dias.) [...]
[...] O YouTube, logo em seguida, divulgou um vídeo, supostamente produzido pela Microsoft, que mostra como deve ser o Origami. Um executivo e blogueiro da Microsoft, Richard Scoble, chegou a tecer comentários sobre o Origami, dizendo que se tratava de um portátil de baixo custo desenvolvido por Otto Berkes, que tinha trabalhado no projeto do console de games Xbox. [...]
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Microsoft Origami…
Astroturfing* like the best of them, Microsoft is drip-feeding information about the codenamed ‘Origami‘ project. So far we have some images that Engadget picked up, and now a nice flash video of a device. Call me cynical, but I’m b…
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Great blog- check out my videoblog, it’s on astroturfing, and it’s pretty new but i will be updating it regularly.