Origami Portal.com (yes, there’s already an Origami news site) has an image of what a final Microsoft Origami device might look like.

The Origami Project website has now been updated. Check out origamiproject.com/2/.

Engadget has a post by Ross Rubin theorizing that Microsoft is backing HD-DVD in order to guarantee a bloody format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, and thus result in neither format winning.

Engadget is reporting that the new Mac will only run Vista. There’s other discussion on Memeorandum.

It took me a while to track this rumor down, but the team just sent me an update/correction.

Engadget is blogging and covering MacWorld too. I gotta go, have a presentation to give about RSS today to Microsoft employees.

I was just talking with Buzz. We’re both exhausted. I didn’t do much of anything until late in the afternoon today.

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas certainly was the place this week for many companies to announce a dazzling array of new tech products, alliances and ventures.

Well kind of live. Engadget is “Barry Schwartzing”* Terry Semel’s keynote speach.

I was talking with Jason Calacanis (founder of Weblogsinc.com) yesterday and he told me that AOL was sending a bunch of bloggers to CES to cover that, particularly on their Engadget site.

You can watch along. I’m sitting in the Bellagio with a bunch of geeks watching on a video feed. Updates to come.

“Oh, kaori!” said the Japanese teenager sniffing hercell phone? “It-su my friend-o,” she reveals holding up a screen indicating she has mail. She’s just dropped about $20 for a smelltone accessory that emits a 5-second aroma whenever she gets a message. If this were to fall into the wrong hands

With the exploding popularity of all things blogs, keeping track of which ones are the most popular can be difficult task. It’s been estimated that there are 30-80 thousand new blogs created daily, with 500-900 thousand* new posts being made as well. With this bulk of information being delivered daily, finding which blogs are considered popular, unless you have a list to guide you.

Google, Goldman Sachs and Hearst have put $100 million in a startup that will provide broadband over power lines.

Robert Chapin says that his company, Chapin Information Services, has found a flaw in the design of Yahoo’s website that allows easy, free downloading of DRM-free music tracks.

Is podcasting really starting to move as a serious business communication tool, never mind it’s entertainment appeal? Yet more signs:  1. iTunes to directly support podcasts…

Eric Ward at Search Engine Guide writes about the power of the passive inbound link. In short – a passive link is a link you don’t buy, ask for or trade links for.

Weblogs Inc. is experimenting with a new advertising paradigm called Focus Ads that encourages readers …

Gawker is in trouble over hosting the Fred Durst sex video (his phone was hacked) …

Nicholas Ciarelli, publisher of ThinkSecret and a Harvard University student, who is currently facing legal threats from Apple …

Reported on Neowin this afternoon: After an exclusive story here at Neowin.net regarding future Windows Mobile Technologies …