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This week Andy and Michael begin the show and evidently can’t count, next week is episode 144. We also try our straight blast thru format of listener tags again this week. Tell us what you think? Do you like this format, or are separate and unique sections the way we should go. We like to experiment! And don’t forget to rate us on iTunes, tell your friends, drop us an email at dogearnation@gmail.com

What’s Cool
Andy – DC Interview
Michael R – Comdex goes Virtual

Listener Tags
Mind Crime! – epredator
Do Avatar’s Change the Way we Think – epredator
Companies are using more online communities- rawnshah
Management thru collaboration – rawnshah
Stonehenge Comes Alive – lx5
BBC Domesday book – BONUS TAG
Youtube allows HTML5 – lx5
New SecondLife Viewer allows for Shared Media – MattSimpson

Quick Hits
Google Liquid Galaxy – lx5, epredator
Are virtual worlds over – uncommonman, epredator
Infectious cool – carolinabigblue
COBOL takes on Ruby on Rails, with COGS! – uncommonman

Final Thoughts
Andy – Greatest Lightsaber Fight you’ll Ever See
Michael R – Speaking about Gaming and Developer Teams

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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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Michael, Andy, and Michael are all back together again, and have a blast dealing with all your tags. This week’s tech heavy show gives us plenty of excitement, including more eye-ball stories to keep Michael M. happy. (Keep tagging great tags about sticking things in your eyes.). We also welcome new tagger Bradicle.

What’s Cool
Andy — Roocast
Michael R — Supporting Space Science!
Michael M — Text to speech / lane guidance

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Space invaders in 3D – heidigoseek

Tech-no-tronic
Dashing through the wifi halls – duckboxxer
The wifi gift that keeps on giving – lx5
Eyewriter – The Story – bradicle
Eyewriter source code – andypiper
Eyewriter – The site
Quantum Physics made relatively (heh) simple – phil_hartman
E-waste Guiyu (Where our stories end up) – gypsychk
Cool capital – phil_hartman
Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers – SarahAires

Mac-a-rooni
RFID on iPhone rumor – heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
Cream then jam – jtonline

Final thoughts
Andy — Original DOOM available & multiplayer – vintage video maker
Michael R — AT&T Microcell
Michael M — sousaphone!

Michael on The Field

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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

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This week Andy and Michael R. welcome “TheRab!” AKA Ryan Boyles, IBM Project Zero’s community manager, to talk about the Enterprise 2.0 conference, his love of comics, and social networks. We keep getting many more tags then we can talk about, and we are glad to extend our “Cool Stuff We Had no Time For” section this week… you are all amazing! Michael M was doing what he does best (a speaking engagement, getting people excited about gaming and business), but he will be back next week.

Show Tags

What’s cool
Ryan – e20 Conference – How to spark a fight and Reflections on Boston…also Dogear-Nation e2Conf and All e2Conf Tags
Michael – Tether iPhone, breaks phone features (michaelrowe01)
Andy – Star Wars themed links Tauntaun Sleeping Bag (carolinabigblue); Star Wars uncut (carolinabigblue) and John Williams acapella (andypiperuk via kellypuffs)

Technotronic
Akamai Study: Broadband Traffic Grows Worldwide (kevinaires)
Akamai visualizer (andypiperuk)
BBC Digital Revolution and What is Digital Revolution (epred and wideawakewesley) and BBC SOS (andypiperuk)
Dyson using 3D printing of prototypes to speed innovation (epredator)
Spotify wins award (uncommonman)
and MSFT to start a competing service (wideawakewesley)
Kindle about to hit the UK (michaelrowe01)
Super cluttered website (lx5)

Social networkin’
Tech Crunch web trend visualisation on Zoomarama (wideawakewesley)
Online consumer trends (epredator) and epred’s analysis (lx5)
Texting teen falls down manhole (gypsychk)
How teenagers consume media (lx5)
(bonus link – Roo’s take)
Why teens aren’t using Twitter (wideawakewesley)
Who uses social networks and what are they like (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts
Andy – Coffee themed links – Tips and Tricks for better Coffee and Beautifully Delicious Coffee Designs
Michael – Doom on the iPhone and… he can’t remember (bonus link – Worms for iPhone)
Ryan – Best east coast Comic Con! and The Dance of Community Management

Where people can find Ryan
Twitter http://twitter.com/theRab
Blog http://mobthink.com
Project Zero

Thanks for contributing…
billsweeney, wideawakewesley, heidigoseek, gypsychk, uncommonman, epredator, lx5, kellypuffs, kevinaires, kiambogo… and our Twitter friends!

Cool stuff we had no time for
Craziness
Shadow art from junk (gypsychk)
Eternal moonwalk (wideawakewesley)
Girls making boy sounds (andypiperuk)
omgrofl programming language (lx5)
Social network pillows (andypiperuk)
Cardboard tube fighting league (kellypuffs)
Tweetcraft (andypiperuk)

Mac-a-rooni
iPhone 3G-not-so-S (kevinaires)
Smarter city + phone = win (kiambogo)
iPhone doormat (carolinabigblue)

Apparently-optional 3D Internet
Sketchlife (andypiperuk)
Virtual guidedog (carolinabigblue)
Cross reality – sensors and VW (heidigoseek)
Augmented reality starts becoming reality (kevinaires)

Other
Google Voice (US-only though!!) – (billsweeney)
IBM to provide core of UK biometric passport system (wideawakewesley)
Tech too cheap to meter, plan for abundance (epredator)
Bill Gates to stop hurricanes (wideawakewesley)… Does anyone else think this is a very, very bad idea??
MSFT vs Chrome (lx5)
Office 2010 in the cloud (gypsychk)
Swearing can make you feel better (!) (gypshychk)
Elf island, kids VW gaming for good (gypsychk)
Tesco supermarket API (lx5)
1979 iPod patent?! (gypsychk)
Pirate Bay to become a pay site (wideawakewesley)
Opening the Poken platform (andypiperuk)
18th century gadgetry (gypsychk)

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