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Michael, Andy, and Michael come together this week to a plethora of user tags, and somehow we get very morbid with our discussion. Is Second Life dead (again), can hero’s come back to life if they are played by Cats, and why do we keep hearing tweets from the dead? All these questions will be answered… So sit back, grab a beersicle from the freezer and enjoy the show.

What’s cool?
Andy — Reenactment (with cats): Princess Bride
Michael R — Backpack with frickin’ lasers in it
Michael M — Star Trek iPad – 23 years ago

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Collada mesh networks and Hypergrid – Is SL dying?
End of the (virtual) world as we know it epredator
Eight BILLION dollars 
Disney CEO: Social Gaming epredator
Yakuza game reviewed by yakuza bluebus

Tech-no-tronic
Wake up! (based on bed movement) lx5
On a hot day, what you need is a beer popsicle gypsychk
Rather put the kettle on 17.5 times, or email 4 pictures? gypsychk

Mac-a-rooni 
Camera plus easter egg gypsychk
iPhone data trail gypsychk

Social Networkin’
Twitter deceased user policy established heidigoseek
You’ve been accused of seriously dumbing down the internet lx5
twitter/foursquare/qik marriage proposal wideawakewesely

Final thoughts
Andy – Traveling – follow on personal blog
Michael M — Pop Goes the Weasle 
Michael R — Cows & Fish

bonus links
Princess bride board game
IT Crowd Series 4
Red Dead Redemption 
Civilization iPhone game

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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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