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Michael and Michael do a special segment with David Gardner, CEO of The Venue Network, who talks to us about his new virtual worlds business platform Venuegen. The goal of this platform is to allow people to create quick and professional events, which provide the immersive nature of the 3-D internet for the masses. Beta access can be requested by all of listeners over at Venuegen. Come back to the blog here later this week for a video of the platform.

We then jump into a great set of listener tags that we can’t hope to get to all of them. Thanks for the tags! — (Lx5, epredator, wideawakewesley, gypsychk, heidigoseek, billsweeney1, uncommonman, duckboxxer, kevinaires)

p.s. We missed you Andy!

p.p.s. Thank you Thinkingmachine for their song Lies!

What’s Cool
Michael R — The interview with David Gardner!
Michael M — Real cash delivers the virtual goods

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Venuegen
Rezzme Project
Lost London (lx5 via epredator tweet)
Augmented virtual reality (epredator)
Nearest tubes augmented reality (kevinaires)

Mac-a-rooni
RunPee (wideawakewesley)

Social Networkin’
#moonfruit – darn, that contest is over…

Final thoughts
Michael R — PrePurchased Windows 7 – Should I install the RC on my Vista Machine?
Michael M — Open source NGO disaster managementM (via lx5) and Shameless Self Promotion – Event on the 16th/17th

Just some of the Fantastic links we did not get to… thanks & keep on tagging!
Nothing more social than competitive eating (billsweeny1)
Social networking in the workplace (heidigoseek)
95% accurate brainwave controlled wheelchair (gypsychk)
Were the pirate bay people aware of this? (uncommonman)
Maybe the pirate bay people were… (wideawakewesley)
A shiny new OS from Google (wideawakewesley)
And maybe something shiny coming from Microsoft? (wideawakewesley)
Not quite an iPhone steadicam, but getting close! (andypiper)
I’m a Poken, you’re a Poken, wouldn’t you like to be a Poken too? (kevinaires)
Power of positive thinking can be negative (gypsychk)
Ekopedia (lx5)

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We welcome back Michael Ackerbauer from IBM’s Metaverse team, as we review your tags this week. It’s been a pretty busy and crazy set of tags, but with the release of iNotes from IBM recently there are more iPhone users getting access to their corporate data. We also look at some really cool historical computing trends and see if we can guess the device. Our Obligatory 3D internet section gives many people a first look at Emotiv’s headset, as seen on the Discover Channel’s “Prototype This” show, while the coffee lover’s out there will get a cool printer. Don’t miss the interview with Ben and Nathan from MyCosm at the end of the show.

Show Links

Compute power!
iNotes
Michael’s iNotes experiences
Turn your iPhone into a laptop
iRex digital reader (dbartek)
MS WW telescope (duckboxxer)
Old computers (matt simpson)

Obligatory 3D internet
Radical collaboration in architecture
Emotiv on Discovery Channel (choose the show — “Prototype this”)
Synthetic reality (matt simpson)

Games / gaming
When will video games be better than life
Mobile games $1b industry

Random stuff
Joe the plumber strikes gold!
Coffee printer (heidigoseek)
Interactive LED wall (heidigoseek)

Final thought
Michael R — VC firm
Michael A — insanity test
Michael M — Morbidity

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