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As we begin a new year we’ve got no time for any look back (this week), way too many great tags from you our listeners. Also, Andy continues his holiday and will be joining us again next week. Next week we will talk about the tags that have stuck with us the most from 2009. But with CES going on we look at some cool new tech. Michael and Michael talk about Generation M’s impact on the enterprise (thanks to a great tag by billsweeney1 and rodent). We look at the best business model yet, and deal with the twitter nay-sayers. And thanks to ePredator we have to ask, has this augmented reality thing gone too far? Happy New Year!!!

What’s Cool
Michael R — AR Drone
Also AR Drone – listener tag wideawakewesley
Michael M — You Rock!

Augmented Reality
iphone in an iphone epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Google’s openness duckboxxer
CES kickoff by Ford’s President & CEO Alan Mulally, discussion on MyFord & Microsoft Sync

Social Networkin’
Snowmash 2.0 lx5
Facebookisation of the enterprise billsweeney1 rodney
Mother of all business models rickmans
TV scrobbling lx5
It’s 2010 and if you don’t embrace the web it shows you don’t care rickmans
Criticizing twitter heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Michael R — Roots are beautiful
Michael M — Trade Show? There’s an app for that

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:13 — 6.4MB)

Hey, Hey, Hey, What’s Happening? Raj, Rerun, and Dwayne are all back this episode for some good old fashion fun. After meeting up at our favorite lunch time place, the 3D Internet, we venture over to a strange and wonderful tech-no-tronic world full of scalability and youtube. Ultimately Dwayne asks, What’s Happening? and we end up thinking some Final Thoughts. Thanks for all the great tags from – rickmans, epredator, blebs, wideawakewesley, jtonline, heidigoseek, and lx5

Please note, we are aware of the problem with our iTunes feed and have been trying to get it fixed. You can still subscribe and will get the current episode even if the iTunes store shows our last episode being in August.

What’s Cool
Andy — Microsoft surface
Michael R — Smarter than a Cat
Michael M — SAP’s Augmented Reality

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Stick’em in your Eyes – radio waves power contact lens — rickmans Thanks for this one
N-Dubz augmented reality — epredator
Second Life still around? — bluebus

Tech-no-tronic
Holy See — wideawakewesley
Breaking things is not hard to do — Jtonline
1000 users on a sim — bonus link
Youtube captions — heidigoseek
21 heros of Data Visualization– lx5

Social Networkin’
What’s Happening?

Final thoughts
Andy — Google — chromium OS, captioning in YouTube, google image swirl, site hierachies google blog — location tagging blog post
Michael R — TomTom for iPhone
Michael M — AM Radio

Bonus Links
Izzy

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Andy and Michael enjoy a non-controversial show, with Michael R not able to make the record. While podcasts enable you to build your own radio station, and only find things you agree with, both Michael and Andy agree that it makes you smarter (thank you new tagger rabiakiva). We also get to hear Andy laugh over mouse overs on the twategy site, and then we hear him gush over the wonderfulness of Twitter Lists. He loves it so much he’s created one list. (While editing the show, Michael R. does learn about Google Reader bundles, and agrees this is cool).

What’s Cool
Andy — Dr. Horrible Update
Michael R — It’s a man, made from gir-ders! / flame on!
Michael M — basketball season!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Linden’s behind the firewall product & apps marketplace – epredator
Babel fish augmented reality glasses – epredator
Break on through to the other side – epredator
Augmented Reality for Hursley

Social Networkin’
Listening to podcasts make you smarter – rabiakiva
Bespoke tweets for the elite – uncommonman
Who moved my blackberry
Twitter lists show social media misunderstandings – heidigoseek
Twitter lists illustrated
Jobs’ 5 presentation secrets – rickmans
Has Google gone to the dark side – rickmans

Google privacy dashboard explained – lx5

Final thoughts
Andy — pondering when the presentation secrets of Michael M…
Michael M — unique identifiers on election ballots

#Fail
Andy can’t believe that the Michaels forgot to mention Sky-net in our discussion of robots on last week’s show.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:11 — 8.8MB)

Andy and Michael soldier on without Michael Martine this week, but Michael, ever the professional, drops us a few inserts to make sure that he’s cool enough. This week’s tags are a great collection of technology and geekiness including – Spheres, spiral galaxies, and assassins. Thanks to all of you who tag, and come meet us on October 23rd if you are in the RTP area of North Carolina as we do our Windows House Party.

What’s Cool
Andy — Magic Wand
Michael R — MythHackers
Michael M — Red Shirt Cologne And Star Wars at National Mall in Washington, DC

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Spherical Virtual World (epredator)
Augmented Reality showing Twin Towers (wideawakewesley)
Augmented Reality apps to buy now! (kevinaires)
Unlock content by snapping a picture of a logo (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
MS-Mouse on multitouch (wideawakewesley)
Netflix Prize awarded (lxs)
3-D Stellar wiki (Philip Hartman)

Social Networkin’
GPS Assassins (Philip Hartman)
(Bonus)Halting State by Charles
Top collaboration tools that aren’t Google Wave (Rick Mans)
Analysis of leaked/weak passwords (wideawakewesley)

Final thoughts
Andy — Micro Men on BBC4
Michael R — Emotiv Headset – Developers Kit!!
Michael M — Everything’s L$10 and here’s a voucher

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:59 — 9.2MB)

We must be getting closer to Halloween, since we have death and undead on our minds. In our 3-D Internet section, we have people living out their lives in robotic forms. In our Tech-no-tronic section, we have the ability to will our Twitter account to someone after we die (could this end up causing a bit of Ghost Tweeting?). In our Win-A-Rooni section, we have Microsoft Windows’ attempt at rebirth with Windows 7 and house parties. And finally, in our Social Networking section, ma.gnolia comes back from the dead with a new invite-only social bookmarking tool. I think it’s time to play with the undead and head over to World of Warcraft!

What’s Cool
Andy — Lego t-shirt
Michael R — Heads up GPS on iPhone
Michael M — Augmented Reality and Bionic Eye, The future mashups are bleeding into the 3-D Internet.

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Linden Speaks at Metanomics Show (epredator)
Linden Lab says SecondLife is Huge! (kevinaires)
Surrogates (wideawakewesley)
Business users who don’t get it — doomed to failure (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Living will for your digital assets (lx5)
Fitbit launched (kevinaires)

Win-a-rooni
Host your own Windows 7 House Party! (lx5)
In da House (uncommonman)
Dogear-Nation’s Windows 7 House Party
Zune OLED screen outshines iPod and Video

Social Networkin’
Magnolia’s ba-ack! – Sorta (heidigoseek)
Visualization for local twitter trends (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts
Andy — Apture (rucsb) Checking Facebook during a burglary and Poken for Business
Michael R — Evidently not playing enough WoW
Michael M — Honda’s Segway-like Unicycle (via kevinaires)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:30 — 8.9MB)