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Andy and the Michaels can tell the holidays are here… our tech-no-tronic section is overflowing with excellent tech thanks to our listeners (duckboxxer, rickmans, bradicle, philhartman, and billsweeney1). It appears that the 3D internet must be fading back into 2D, due to all the very cool augmented reality capabilities being brought to phones, so we have gotten the message from you, our listeners, and have left the Obligatory section as optional.

Our words of the day are (Andy) – Flible, (Michael M.) – None- he’s saving up, and (Michael R.) – Is.

What’s Cool
Andy — Raffle it!
Michael R — Metallica pussy cats
Michael M — Airlock

Obligatory 3-D Internet
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Tech-no-tronic
Going to bing? – duckboxxer
Facebook turning its square into a triangle – rickmans
Eye-fi / google deal – bradicle
True random numbers – philhartman
100k words per american per day – rickmans
Kindling competition – billsweeney1

Social Networkin’
Whose social network is stronger – Simon Cowell or everyone else? – rickmans
BBC Mashup shows – jtonline
Twitter demographics – jtonline
Twittering bed of the newly wed – wideawakewesley

Final thoughts
Andy — iPhone vs girlfriend
Michael R — Clash of the Titans
Michael M — Amazon Innovates again

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The Michaels enjoy a great set of listener tags. Andy has to take customer calls, and is unable to join us this week. We take this time with Andy away, to have a few shameless self promotions and tell you what we’ve been unto in our day jobs lately. Michael M. tries to infect the world with his coughs as he is in the scary eastern parts of Tennessee, but since it all via skype you are all safe — Happy Halloween.

Thank you to all the listeners who make this show possible each week with your tags – epredator, wideawakewesley, lunamoth, billsweeney1, ragtag_2, rickmans and lx5

What’s Cool
Michael M – Shameless Self Promotion
Michael R – Shameless Self Promotion

3D Internet
Future of the Enterprise: Special Event Live from San Francisco – epredator
Hands on with Acer’s 3D laptop – wideawakewesley
The Value of Virtual Worlds – epredator

Tech-No-tronic
Which is easier to understand: Google Wave or Cardiothoracic Surgery? – lunamoth
Beyond the Kindle: Color, Video E-Paper Devices Are Just Around the Corner – billsweeney1
Robots Tiptoe toward terminator – billsweeney1
Amazon goes Window shopping – michaelrowe01
CoolPics, CoolLens, CoolIris- Whatever!
Photo editor online – Pixlr.com edit image – ragtag_2
Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe – rickmans

Social Netorkin’
Peace on Facebook – rickmans
D&D on Google Wave – michaelrowe01
Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists – rickmans
In Authoritarian Regimes, Social Media Doesn’t Only Help Social Activists – rickmans
Privacy is dead and social media hold smoking gun – rickmans
Facebook ‘memorialises’ profiles – wideawakewesley
Uni adds Twitter to the curriculum – rickmans
Reading the Telegraph costs the British economy £1.38bn – rickmans

Da Governator
Track where US gov bailout trillions went with augmented reality mobile app – wideawakewesley
Net set for ‘language shake-up’ – lx5

Final Thoughts
Michael R – Alternative Mac software – AlternativeTo.net
Michael M – Real Life iPhone Costumes Put Your Crappy Halloween Outfit to Shame and Smart Phone Etiquette

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Andy and Michael R are joined by John Martin of Reallusion who tells all about WidgetCast and iClone. There’s tag talk about virtual worlds, visualizations, and the latest movements of planetary destroyers around the interwebs. Michael M drops in for a microscopic final thought. Remember to leave feedback to enter our swag contest!

Thanks to Z303, wideawakewesley, uncommonman, rickmans, lx5, duckboxxer and epredator for some great links! We can’t do the show without listener tags, and we always appreciate them.

What’s cool
Andy – 3D etch-a-sketch on Current and Make (lx5)
Michael – LG wristphone (duckboxxer)
John – Reallusion new products WidgetCast, iClone4 and CrazyTalk6

3D internet
Virtual Singapore in Twinity (andypiper)
Can Virtual Reality be even better than face-to-face in delivering world-class professional development events? (epredator)
Augmented Reality Gary Coleman bobblehead Facebook app (carolinabigblue)

The web and business
Red Gate startup incubator coworking space (lx5 via @andrewferrier on Twitter)
Why social marketing gets viral (lx5)
Amazon’s acquisitions (andypiper)

Social networkin’
The Facebook Death Star (lx5 via @dr_rick on Twitter)
Twitter Retweet API (andypiper and carolinabigblue)
Google Caffeine (duckboxxer)

Final thoughts
Andy – London Underground shower curtain
Michael R – Google to let users opt out
Michael M – nanotube

Where to find John
Twitter, machinima, YouTube, Reallusion

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This week Michael and Michael are recording in the same room, for the first time in a long time, while Andy is out sick – Get well quickly Andy! But ever the trooper, Andy provides us a with “What’s Cool” this week. We have a ton of listener tags this week so take a listen and comment on this episode.

What’s Cool 
Andy — The Guild
Michael R — Don’t get fooled by tiny urls!
Michael M — Radio wave powered cellphones
 
Obligatory 3-D Internet
Holodeck demo (andypiper)
Epredator’s blog post on Natal / PS3 convergence (lx5)
Upload your body (michaelrowe)
 
Tech-no-tronic
Most dangerous search terms (Emily)
Qualify for Amazon free shipping!  (lx5)
Data visualization (lx5)
Camera + cellphone + text-to-speech = power! (epredator)
 
Mac-a-rooni
$1b data center (michaelrowe01)
Apple in NC (carolinabigblue)
Some new cellphone a’comin’… 
Leo Loses it on air — (michaelrowe01)
 
Social Networkin’
Arrgh, it’s a Pirate Party! (helenalindh)
Map of Social Networks (kevinaires)
Meatcards tasty and information-carrying (heidigoseek)
Trolls running social media, or just hiding under the bridge? (michaelrowe01)
Twitter leads to burglary (or @fakeburglary?) (michaelrowe01)
Who are these guys? (michaelrowe01)
 
Final thoughts
Andy — Cell Phone evolution from @SilviaEmilia via Twitter
Michael R — Thank you to all the people at Charles University Prague! 
Michael M — rapleaf / poken / a little scary how easy it is to discover social networking data

Cool Tags we didn’t get to
Dell Twitter Success – (kevinaires)
Digital Designs for Physical Objects – (epredator)
Talkback on Graphics Art (epredator)
TNT Tries sponsored tweets (uncommonman)
Camera Mouse (lx5)
Reputation Defender (kevinaires)
Best Cities (lx5)
ARToolkit download (epredator)
AI and AR (kevinaires)
Reverse Dictionary (lx5)

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Michael and Michael welcome our new “official” co-host – Andy Piper, and then end up having to move the recording time this week to way too late in the evening. So hopefully Andy will be joining us next week. This week’s show has a great set of listener tags. We look at the revival of Second Life (really??), new technology in Forterra, a new Virtual World in Australia, out of body experiences in Sweden, and a finish off our Obligatory 3D internet section with a really big beer! As we move over to the Social Networking section, Duckboxxer helps us see ads on Twitter, while Twitter turns down a rumored $500m deal from Facebook, we learn what we don’t know about language immersion from cynicalicious while Pownce gets pwned when they are purchased by Six Apart, and we resolve with the real value of the Re-Tweet. Our Mac-a-rooni section begins with Vista users begging Microsoft not to make Windows 7 easy to user over the expense of power and functionality, Kevinaires sends us a link to a cool iPhone holder, and Matt Goerning taking on Apple users and Steve Jobs.

Show Links
Obligatory 3D Internet
Second Life’s Second Wind?
Forterra & IBM Unified Communications — (andypiperuk)
Foreterra & Lotus — (epredator)
Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop
body swapping — (twitterati)
Big Ad!

Social Networking
tweeterize — (duckboxxer)
tweeterize
Twitter tweets “thanks, but no thanks” to Facebook
iKnow — (Cynicalicious)
Pownce pwned
RT looking for a kidney transplant

Mac-a-rooni
Don’t make Windows7 too mac-like
Just mobile xtand — (kevinaires)
Mapple!

Final Thoughts
Michael M — Amazon iPhone app
Michael R — Customer Service is not dead

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