Dec 26

Michael Rowe and Matt Simpson take some time to wrap up the year with special pre-recorded sections from Michael Martine, who missed his first EVER episode of Dogear-Nation. The guys list their top innovations and wish lists for 2007, and Predictions for 2008.Fun discussions:Simpsonizer - http://www.simpsonizeme.com/Top 3 Innovations:Michael Rowe - Green Datacenters - Monitoring and Visualization by Michael Osias at IBM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j65RkMS9EGYiClone - Favorite tool for creating machinima - http://www.reallusion.comLOTR Online - Great visual game, good game play, familure setting - http://www.lotro.com/Matt Simpson - The New Dawn of Solar - http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/green/item_59.htmlWish List Items:Matt Simpson -Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 HD - http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/pioneer-kuro-pdp-5080/4505-6482_7-32476901.html?tag=pop Bose® Lifestyle® 35 DVD home entertainment system - http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=ls35_dvd_indexUltrasone Edition 9 - http://www.headphonenews.com/2006/10/08/ultrasone-edition-9-the-best-headphones-in-the-world/Michael Martine -Rock band — http://www.rockband.com/A squeezebox — http://www.slimdevices.com/A delorean — http://www.delorean.com/Tops for Next year:Michael Rowe - 2008 will be the year that VW become “real”2008 will be the year that the iPhone becomes valuable and usable2008 will be the year that Dogear-Nation gets better audio toolsFinal Thoughts:Michael Rowe - Never “EVER” leave it to your buddies to edit your voiceMatt Simpson - Stay Tuned for MichaelMichael Martine - Looking forward to 2008 of fun with Dogear-Nation and Check out Sports Sync Radio http://www.sportsyncradio.com/

 
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Dec 13

Well it looks like we are delayed on posting last week’s episode. The show is in the can, but edits are taking longer due to all of our day jobs getting in the way. Please be patient and we will post soon.

Michael

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Dec 02

Michael, Michael, and Matt are spread around the country this week and enjoying another Dogear-Nation Friday. Our listeners tag about Enterprise search and the challanges that come in to play when dealing with different data sources - besides simple web pages. A quick hop on to Cell Phones, Tablets, and the Kindle is required. Coming next show the Top tech picks of the Dogear-Nation guys… check it out next week!!

Listener Tags -

Katlyn McCarthy -
Enterprise Search — http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/2007/11/eodt_search_improvements.html

Search Tags -
Tamnoon — http://w3.tap.ibm.com/myTAP/offering/viewoffering.wss?offeringId=OFF1088&linkId=offering.OFF1088
Google Desktop Search — http://desktop.google.com/
OmniFind — http://w3.tap.ibm.com/myTAP/offering/viewoffering.wss?offeringId=OFF50723&tabId=tab-over-view and
http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/dealhub/entry/w3_google_vs_omnifind_i#comment-1195485350616
Digg — http://www.digg.com/
Del.isco.us — http://del.icio.us/mikerowe01/dogear-nation
Mahalo — http://www.mahalo.com/
Ask — http://www.ask.com/

Bill Sweeney -
Nokia — http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n810

eReaders -
Kindle — http://twit.tv/mbw68 and http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA

Fake IBM Batteries -
Flammable batteries — http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;732449342;fp;16;fpid;1

Exploding Phone — http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/28/phone.explosion.ap/index.html

Top Picks -
Popular Science — http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/
Wired Top Picks — http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/magazine/15-12/wl_10things

Phone Stories
Phone 3G / AT&T — http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7172
iPhone and MSFT — http://pbokelly.blogspot.com/2007/11/microsoft-adds-iphone-ipod-sync-to.html
NEC translation — http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/nec-develops-real-time-english-to-japanese-mobile-translation-so/
Bable Fish — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_fish

Final Thoughts -
Matt Simpson — http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/
Michael R. — Emotiv — http://www.emotiv.com/
Michael M. — http://www.gapminder.org/

 
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