Dogear Nation

Michael and Michael welcome Pranab Sharma from IBM’s Virtual Universe Community. We focus on Signing Avatars, Real Race cars, Cool Software and $5 Dollar Water.

Communication Section:
Tuba Hero - http://www.theonion.com/content/news/activision_reports_sluggish_sales?utm_source=digg_1
IBM Creates Signing Avatars - http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JSFEGYFBTFRYAQSNDLQCKIKCJUNN2JVN?articleID=201806222
Mastor Speech to Speech Translation - http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.uit.innovation.html
40 Watt Club - http://www.40watt.com/
The Man Cave - http://www.baekdal.com/design/architecture/qube-private-space/

Virtual Worlds Section:
Cisco Virtual Worlds Blog - http://blogs.cisco.com/virtualworlds/
ePredator’s real world drive - http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JSFEGYFBTFRYAQSNDLQCKIKCJUNN2JVN?articleID=201806222
IAC Acquires Majority share of GarageGames - http://www.garagegames.com/news/13587
Only a Lad Paroday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD7aI45cRrE

Software Section:
Notes code added to Open Office - http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YQUYWPGKNHSQCQSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201805296
Lotus Symphony - http://tahoe.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa
Graphics for Mac - http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Environmental Section:
$5 Bottle of Water - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html
Eco Drive - http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/09/12/frankfurt-2007-fiat-and-microsoft-announce-ecodrive-datalogging/

Listener Tag -
Google Zietgeist - http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 24 - I Can't Believe I Drank the Whole Thing: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe

Michael, Michael, and Matt are all back at their normal locations. Discussions focus on digital earth, data visualization, simulations, remote workers, and the curvature of the earth. Michael invites listeners to stop by and say “Hi!” at the Virtual Worlds 2007 Conference on Oct. 10th and 11th in San Jose.

Digital Earth:
The Sensing Earth - http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/the_sensing_ear.html
The Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth - http://www.isde5.org/
The Google Earth Flight Simulator - http://earth.google.com/intl/en/userguide/v4/flightsim/

Remote Work:
The Worker you have to Plug-in - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/13/guardianweeklytechnologysection.news
Roomba Hacks - http://www.roombareview.com/hack/
Roomba Skeletons - http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Roomba_20Development_20Toolkit

The Curvature of the Earth:
Joe Kittinger - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
The Skydive - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81gn2oLeC_U
Terminal Velocity - http://hypertextbook.com/facts/JianHuang.shtml

IBM:
Sametime 7.5.1 Success story - http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/2007/08/eodt_sametime751connect_innovation.html

Mashups:
Political Mashups on Yahoo - http://potw.news.yahoo.com/
Ask.com’s City Map mashup - http://city.ask.com/city
The Future of Web Apps - http://www.futureofwebapps.com/

Virtual Worlds:
Virtual Worlds 2007 Conference - http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 23 - Curvature of the Earth [32:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe

The Michael’s invade the home of the BMW Z-Roadster in the US for a weekend of fun and driving. That doesn’t stop them from talking tech. Matt holds down the fort and drives an exciting show.

BMW Roadster Homecoming
It goes to 11 - http://www.bmwroadsterhomecoming.com/

Web 2.0
Web 2.0 goes to work — developerWorks Live! briefing - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings/details/web20.html
Car keys Hacked!! - http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/researchers-cra.html
U.S. Spy Agencies Go Web 2.0 - http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201801990

Wikipedia - Blue?
Bluepedia - http://bluepedia.csghl.de.ibm.com/en/index.php/Main_Page

Games & Entertainment -
Hollywood Company Bringing Joust to the Big Screen - http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=17262

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 22 - Drive it like you stole it!: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe