Dogear Nation » Podcast

To paraphrase Douglas Adams, “So long and thanks for all the tags!”  Dogear-Nation was a labor of love by Michael Martine, Andy Piper, Michael Rowe, Matthew Simpson, and Steven Harrison (over the hears from 2006-2011).  We posted 200 public episodes on iTunes and about 30 inside of the company that we all worked for at one time or another.  Our goal was to create a community of technology people excited by the 3D Internet (which has faded), leveraging social bookmarking (again a somewhat dead technology now), and humor and fun.

Without all your tags the show would have been pretty boring… Instead we all learned from each other about new and exciting advances in tech, gaming and social networking.  We decided to end the podcast at episode 200.  Since then, Michael and Michael have started a new podcast at http://gamesatwork.biz based on the initial ideas that got us podcasting together 6 years ago – using gaming technology for business.  We hope you come join us over there.  Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gamesatwork_biz and like us on facebook at http://facebook.com/gamesatworkbiz .

Just a quick post to all of the dogear nation followers who have continued to follow-us as we’ve moved on to GamesAtWork, we have finished setting up the new site and are just about done with all of the iTunes setup.. so please come visit us at GamesAtWork.Biz.  We will be posting all new episodes and content over at that URL.  We look forward to engaging with you on our new adventure.

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The guys are all back together for an incredible interview with Chris Hazard from Hazardous Software.  We look into our crystal ball to manipulate time and space in games, being careful not to kill our grandparents at the same time.  Chris helps us all understand the behavior of gamers and how to make our own games more engaging.  We also check out a bit of  ikaruga games too.

Chris also talks about his upcoming session at the East Coast Gamers Conference… Check it out here!

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In a bit of an out of sequence episode Michael and Michael talk about the investment made by Zynga in OMGPop the makers of Draw Something and what the game of it all may be.  Andy is off traveling the world, and hopefully enjoying a much needed rest from technology (as if).  We continue to ask for your feedback on the format of the show, and future topics.  How about an episode on Mobility and gaming?  Or board games?

Links:

Zynga Buys OMGPop

Is Google Being Evil?

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Games@Work episode 00004 – WTF?!?!

Where’s the FUN?!?!? – That’s the question that Michael and Michael ask this week, while Andy is out and about.  We focus on a few game examples including the new Matching game called InstaMatch.  We also look at fun and interesting progress systems, and some not so fun… Spinning beach ball we’re talking to you!

Next episode we are looking forward to talking to one of the Authors of the book “GameStorming”

Bonus Links:

Nest thermostat

ePredator’s thermostat stats

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