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Michael R. forgot to hit the big red button this week, so we have an abbreviated show with Andy and Michael R, going thru all the excitement you missed. This random walk is brought to you by the letters F-U-B-A and R.

Links

Lights Out for the Dark Star – wideawakewesley

Star Wars – Fail – ePredator

Shift – Run – Stop – lxs

Symbian – Opensource – About Time/Too Late – lxs

Private Surfing – lxs

Paid to Play – ePredator

BBC Documentary about the Internet – lxs

Google’s Social Circle – andypiper

A Day without Google – andypiper

Iron Man Sticker – michaelrowe01

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The Michael’s welcome Rawn Shah to the show. Rawn just published a new book on social media which caught our attention. A long time gamer and social media expert, Rawn helps people within IBM adopt social software. We also talk about wireless charging, humanAPIs, and the pro’s and con’s of Apple’s long awaited tablet.

What’s Cool
Rawn — Host encouraged – shameless self promotion!
Michael R — iPad Perfect for Mom!
Michael M — Stolen, Augmented, Cool! – epredator

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Virtual worlds — still worth your time – epredator
LL switch to OpenSim? – andypiper

Tech-no-tronic
IBM System P – allerhed
Wireless charging – @mjones via lx5
Discuss, develop and prototype new kinds of browser based applications – Z303
Eco jammin’ – ragtag_2

Mac-a-rooni
iPad #lame – rickmans
iPad #lame reprise – heidigoseek
Lenovo’s Cool Tablet
iPad not a kindle killer – billsweeney1
Mr. Edison’s kindle – billsweeney1

Social Networkin’
YouTubin’ with POTUS – mattsimpson
82% increase in social networking – rickmans
Yes, Virginia, the authors are listening – billsweeney1

Final thoughts
Andy — We Miss You!
Michael R — Wishing for Snow, so I can relax.
Rawn Shah — Vacation, while on vacation
Michael M — Thunderbird upgrade

Bonus Links
Zork online
Infocom Games online
Lemmings Online
Windows 3.1 in a browser

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Andy, Michael, and Michael must be having a crazy overloaded week and the show title shows it. The good news is we have a great set of listeners who tag some fantastic sites for us to talk about this week. We also, somehow, don’t talk about any tags for some possible upcoming device from a company in Copertino. But our robot overlords won’t let us anyway…so why try. We also see the power of the Dogear-Nation bump see here ->

What’s Cool
Andy — Tungle Me!
Michael R — Star Wars shirt
Michael M — CauseWorld

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Second Life economy grows rickmans
Utah 3D sweettt

Tech-no-tronic
Playing games with your webcam lx5
Visual search engine set billsweeney1
Seesmic Look andypiper

Social Networkin’
Bedwarming Service billsweeney1
SarcMarc rickmans

Final thoughts
Andy — contemplating the announcement of the shiny new device next week
Michael R — Lame accessory
Michael M — Non-Beer Guinness

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With a full complement of hosts, our friend Matt Simpson from Sweettt.com joins us to review the news of the week, and we comment on the big topics from last year. Unlike some of our competitors, this podcast is unbreakable! (ooops… did I just say that live on air?)

What’s Cool
Matt — photo of the day and CoolIris
Andy — a different take on Tetris
Michael R — oldtech new again
Michael M — drake equation

Obligatory 3-D Internet
100 virtual tours (epredator)
playing in virtual worlds (epredator)
AR helping mechanics (wideawakewesley)
LEGO Universe (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Reigniting the patent discussion (lx5 / ragtag_2)
Unbreakable phone breaks (billsweeney1) – also on Failblog (andyp)
blessed blackberry (lx5)
third and the seventh art & architecture (z303 /epredator)

Mac-a-rooni
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Social Networkin’
Monetizing Twitter on a personal level (billsweeney1)
Privacy? No Problem at Facebook! (heidigoseek)
map-a-rooni google to upgrade billboards in street view (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts / best of 2009
Michael R — augmented reality really coming to the surface
Andy — location based internet – sharing location
Matt — the Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
Michael M — – social computing / games driving more collaboration example: www.waze.com

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So… I’ve you’ve been following my tweets then you know that over the holiday’s I’ve been studying to write an iPhone app. My goal is for the first app to be a Dogear-Nation application. I would love to hear what you would like that App to be like. I’ve got a few ideas:
1) RSS reader of the Dogear-Nation RSS Feed
2) Allow you to listen to the audio stream without having to download it via your podcatcher
3) Allow you to click thru to the links we talk about while the show continues to stream (take that apple for not allowing us to multi task)
4) Other ideas?

I have planned on using a lot of the code that Andy put together for the Dogear-Nation Dashcode Widget, but since only 25% of our audience uses a Mac, many of you may not know about it. How many of our listeners use an iPhone? Do we need to make it a web app so that it can be on the Android?

I’d love to hear your thoughts?