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The Michael’s wish Andy a happy birthday and hope that he’s off enjoying himself. We also get a listener tag for a bit of birthday music. We also decide that this week’s show will honor South by SouthWest, which we are competing with this week by talking about Music, Movies, and Entertainment. Enjoy the show!

Show Tags

What’s Cool
For Andy — Happy Birthday via @gypsychk
Michael R — DiggNation Raleigh? and Leo’s Meme this week
Michael M — 8-Bit New York City (via heidigoseek)
 
 
SExSE
Geek Music epredator
it’s 2010 and my jetpack is here billsweeney
Irish Fireside (Bonus Link)
Engineer barbie lx5
Ada Lovelace Day and Shift-Run-Stop Episode (Bonus Link)
Death on a Pale Horse (Bonus Link)
Tron trailer
Bruce Boxleitner – Babylon 5 (Bonus Link)
A-team trailer
 
Final thoughts
Michael R — Hoodie to laptop bag via tweets
Michael M — Curtis Blow — They’re playing bas-ket-ball

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This week Andy and Michael begin the show and evidently can’t count, next week is episode 144. We also try our straight blast thru format of listener tags again this week. Tell us what you think? Do you like this format, or are separate and unique sections the way we should go. We like to experiment! And don’t forget to rate us on iTunes, tell your friends, drop us an email at dogearnation@gmail.com

What’s Cool
Andy – DC Interview
Michael R – Comdex goes Virtual

Listener Tags
Mind Crime! – epredator
Do Avatar’s Change the Way we Think – epredator
Companies are using more online communities- rawnshah
Management thru collaboration – rawnshah
Stonehenge Comes Alive – lx5
BBC Domesday book – BONUS TAG
Youtube allows HTML5 – lx5
New SecondLife Viewer allows for Shared Media – MattSimpson

Quick Hits
Google Liquid Galaxy – lx5, epredator
Are virtual worlds over – uncommonman, epredator
Infectious cool – carolinabigblue
COBOL takes on Ruby on Rails, with COGS! – uncommonman

Final Thoughts
Andy – Greatest Lightsaber Fight you’ll Ever See
Michael R – Speaking about Gaming and Developer Teams

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Back to full strength for the start today, but we do lose Michael M. due to conflicts midway thru the show. We go back to the Future and talk about Linden Lab’s new SecondLife Viewer Version 2.0, which comes to us from many of our listeners. We also look at how European privacy and media laws are starting to impact Google and social media sites. Thanks for all the great tags this week!

What’s Cool
Andy — Flower Power Lights
Michael R — Roadie
Michael M — Lego Mindstorms robot solves Rubics cube under 12 seconds via lx5

Obligatory 3-D Internet
SL following Web Browser metaphor – mattsimpson
SL goes 2.0 with webby viewer – epredator
Sneak peek at new SL viewer
Linden hosting a registry of SL viewers – andypiper
Syntensity 3D game builder for the masses – epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Awesome Cast Wraps – uncommonman
Italian Google privacy case – billsweeney1
Facebook opens Hamburg office, now under German data privacy laws – rickmans
NASA’s Lunar Electric Rover iPhone game – allerhed
Google Buzz and Parental Controls – wideawakewesley
Google buys reMail application, removes from appstore
Mozilla Ubiquity no more (or is it?) – heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Andy — Opportunistic Development for Ubuntu
Michael R — Twitter perceptions of Google Buzz and Effie’s Designer Cakes
Michael M — IBM as a digital dancing elephant via lx5

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While we start with a full crew, we ultimately dwindle down to one Michael, due to network issues and other interruptions. A great set of listener tags all seem to be converging around Google this week. And we find out that Michael R. can actually pronounce Ubuntu.

We also go off on a rant about how badly the eWeek iPad article is designed. What is your least favorite way of presenting information on the web?

We really look forward to hearing from you… Please drop us a note, or comment, or rate us on iTunes. We are also looking to add more guests to the show, so let us know who you want to hear from.

What’s Cool
Andy — We need some nerd badges
Michael R — Great visualization – The known universe
Michael M — Intel’s serious game IT Manager III What happened to 1 and 2?

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Nooka augmented reality accessorizer – wideawakewesley
360 CNN video of Haiti – uncommonman

Tech-no-tronic
Make your reference URLs more suspicious – heidigoseek
Google Sitebricks – duckboxxer
On Demand Virtual Assistant – allerhed
Bonus Link
Siri – iPhone assistant
Google Buzz separate from Gmail – lunamoth rickmans heidigoseek (all tagged this!)
Google acquires Aardvark – lunamoth duckboxxer

Mac-a-rooni
10 things about the iPad that eWeek doesn’t want to show you – billsweeney1

Social Networkin’
ubuntu fair trade cola, so refreshing – lx5
Peeps diorama contest! – Heidigoseek
Bristol Lightsaber Flashmob – wideawakewesley

Final thoughts
Andy — Network problems
Michael R — The truth about Macworld Expo and Lotus Symphony and The Stealth Mac Podcast
Michael M — TriOut NC – Wayne Sutton

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Andy and Michael M hold down the fort on a wide range of listener tags — starting (and arcing back at the end) with Google Buzz. Mobile Social Networking, Gamification of business (hmm… where have we heard that before?), and that innovation really takes place in the social area between corporations. Michael shares a couple of interesting visualizations and Andy gives some pointers to creating an out-of-the-box Boxee setup.

We’re holding off on a full MacWorld report pending Michael R’s return.

What’s Cool

Andy — Google Buzz
Michael R — going to hear Leo, Photoshop classes and more at MacWorld 2K10, MacWorld not quite the same w/o Apple
Michael M — Animator vs Animation

Obligatory 3-D Internet

Flicker founder’s new game: Glitch lx5
Game Neverending

Lego 3 year deal with Unity Technologies epredator

Tech-no-tronic
chrome canopy fractal visualization z303

vanity barcodes heidigoseek

#Musicblogocide2k10
rickmans

Social Networkin’

cloud, multi-touch, mobile, agile to have big impacts in 2010 allerhed

IBM Global Innovation Outlook

“gamification”, mobile social networking, more predictions from Global Human Capital Journal epredator

Final thoughts

Andy — out of the box boxee
Michael M — inudge via Phil Hartman

Announcements
http://oggcamp.org
OggCamp is a free software / free culture unconference organised by the presenters of the Ubuntu UK Podcast and Linux Outlaws. This year’s OggCamp will take place at The Black-E in Liverpool on the 1st and 2nd of May.

UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities is organizing the inaugural Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (C.H.A.T.) Festival (http://www.chatfestival2010.com ) next week from February 16-20 on UNC’s campus. The festival will seek to explore the impact of technology on the arts and humanities, including the evolution of “how we learn, think, know, teach and express ourselves both as individuals and as communities”.

Mac-a-rooni
while we didn’t get to these during the show, we found them intriguing…
iPhone as IE6 wideawakewesley

make your own iPad out of paper heidigoseek

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