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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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Here at Dogear Nation headquarters we are big fans of the TWiT podcast network. On episode 82 of net@night last week, Amber MacArthur was talking about the Facebook Connect plugin for Wordpress, so we thought we’d take a look.

The plugin is a great idea. It lets you use your Facebook profile information as an account on a Wordpress site. We just added Facebook Connect here on the Dogear Nation blog, and you’ll see a “Facebook Community” panel in the right-hand sidebar. You can authorise with our Facebook application, and then when you comment on the blog it will use your Facebook profile information. Your comment can optionally also be posted to your Facebook wall / news feed – see the check box just underneath the comment field.

Here’s an example of what it might look like in your Facebook feed.

If you want to add the plugin to your own site, it is worth watching the installation and configuration video as there are one or two steps that you may not be familiar with if you are not a Facebook application developer.

Of course, if you’re not a Facebook user or you want to use your Google Profile to join our Dogear Nation community, we have Google Connect integrated too – it’s right there in the sidebar.

If you’re a Facebook user, you might also want to check out our fan page where we post weekly show updates, photos, and other extras.

Michael, Michael, and Matt welcome special guest Andy Piper to talk about the UK launch of the iPhone and his experiences with Leopard. The guys also talk about identify management across corporate and social spaces, Copyright Law and Creative Commons, the Writers’ Strike and social Media, and is Leopard Beta??? Listen to find out more.

iPhone Launch:
UK / Germany – http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2007/11/09/2003386986
iPod Touch – http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/
The Cloud access in the UK – http://www.thecloud.net/About-us/

Listener Link – (Dick Hardt):
xPlane – http://www.xplane.com/
Identity 2.0 – http://identity20.com/media/

Identity Management and Copyright:
Google’s Open Social – http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
Larry Lessig – http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187
Creative Commons – http://creativecommons.org/
Writers Strike – http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hMCNHDBUWUNkXnc6DeIJq-lNR1qQ

Roo Reynold’s Blog:
Walking the Digital Dog – http://www.iet.tv/search/index.html?spres=5723

Virtual Landscapes:
Jazzys Listener Tweet:
Map of Communities – http://www.fredcavazza.net/?s=virtual+universes+landscape

Folding at Home – http://folding.stanford.edu/
dl.TV Folding at Home Team – http://dl.tv/2007/04/help_cure_disease_foldinghome.php
Seti At Home – http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
World Community Grid – http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
Boinc Client – http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
DES Encryption Hack – http://www.des.sollentuna.se/mailarchive/des-hack/msg00143.html

Leopard Install Experiences:
Michael’s Experiences – http://web.mac.com/michaelrowe01/Site/Random_Thoughts/Entries/2007/10/30_Leopard_Install.html
Andy’s Experiences – http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/the-leopard-experience/
Apple’s Blue Screen – http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857
Network Support Problems – http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5800263&tstart=0

Final Thoughts:
Michael R – I hope I can get an earlier Flight
Matt – I have a windows platform that suits me well
Andy – Look at for the Dogear-Nation Widget! – http://jumpgate.homelinux.net/random/DogearNation.wdgt.zip
Michael M – Looking forward to Hursley’s iPhone user

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