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Michael and Michael enjoy an old school episode, while our guest has to reschedule due to travel issues – John we missed you and will get you back on the show soon. Andy takes a well deserved break, but as always gives us a great “What’s Cool” – Can you spot the edit? This week’s show includes a great set of Augmented Reality, Robotic, and Party Picture links, all surrounded by a Soundtrack captured in 140 characters. Thanks for all the great tags. Don’t forget to check out our contest, and provide us with feedback.

Special Thanks to – epredator, kevinaires, duckboxxer, wideawakewesley, mobthink, and rickmans for helping to create this week’s show with your tags!

What’s Cool
Andy — Touch Note
Michael R — Pentatonic Scale
Michael M — Bata-Bing?

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented Reality — living in a box (epredator)
Pixel Men!
Augmented ID (kevinaires)
Augmented Lego Reality (kevinaires)
SL feeling the lag of artificial life (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
MS-Roboto (duckboxxer)
Flying Festo Penguins (wideawakewesley)
The Beep should be beepin’ beep beep beep beeped! (wideawakewesley)

Mac-a-rooni
Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile (duckboxxer)

Social Networkin’
Marines vs ESPN vs IBM (mobthink)
Twitter and Facebook down, DogearNation.com Up! (andypiper)
Party like you wanna — Sony’ll take your picture (kevinaires)
Name that tune – in 140 characters or less (billsweeney1)
Who’s unfriending who? (rickmans)

Final thoughts
Andy — Dogear-Nation Contest
Michael R — Controlling your mind
Michael M — Open Source Cycling (via lx5)

Tags we couldn’t get to
Pulse Laser: “Preparing Us For AR”: the value of illustrating of future technologies (epredator)
Weekly Geekly – Geekly News – Augmented Reality Shooter (wideawakewesley)

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Special guest Kirk Nelson (@ArcatechOEM) joins Michael M and Andy to discuss Poken, Rapleaf and sharing identities. Everything gets recorded out of order. Andy stays up late fixing a bunch of audio capture problems. The resulting masterwork can only fairly be described as… the Frankenstein Episode!

Taggers this week
Thanks to kiambogo, jtonline, kevinaires, epredator, billsweeney, comcipher, duckboxxer, blowdart1, and lx5. You are all awesome – sorry we couldn’t hit every tag!

What’s Cool?
Andy — Apollo 11 Workshop Haynes manual
Michael M — mobile burger grill

Social Networkin’
Rapleaf aggregating public social networking data (kiambogo)
Thunderbird Rapleaf plugin (kiambogo)
Contxts (kiambogo)
The rise of the mighty Poken (carolinabigblue)
Nabaztag, nano:ztag, ztamp:s (carolinabigblue)
Meetingwave (billsweeney1)
Talent poaching (lx5)
The pros & cons of URL shorteners (andypiper)
Web design – an open letter to AA.com (lx5)

Obligatory 3D Internet
Prior 3-D Internet art (andypiper)
New glasses-based UI (kevinaires)

Tech-no-tronic
Wii Vitality Sensor (andypiper)
Project Natal (kevinaires)
Project Natal news coverage including “Milo” (andypiper)

Final thoughts
Michael M — Stealth computing netbook (via jtonline)
Andy — Voices of Lara Croft video (via “happymaker” @SilviaEmilia)

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Michael and Michael welcome back former co-host and current host of Sweettt, Matt Simpson. Our tags this week are a great group of eclectic links provided by you, the listeners. We begin with some cool random tech and a great video found on Maria Langer’s website, move over to some random data visualization, slide into the iWorld a bit, play with social networking, and finally end up with a great shout out to Boris in Wonderland who was recently featured on SLCN – Thanks Boris!

Show Links
Random Stuff
Solar Lawn Mower
Matrix on Windows
Google Chrome for Mac
Mindomo

Browsin’ away
MACE classification browser (dbartek)
Blue Spruce (duckboxxer)
Setting Government Data free

Mac-a-rooni
iPhone beamme
Iphone Tethering
Nike+iPod social networking

Tag-a-rooni
All Tech Considered
FlickrNation
Bluehoo
Feelings Felt Moo cards (andypiper)
Generatus (andypiper)

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Tonight Live (Boris In Wonderland)

Final Thoughts
Matt S — Plug for Sweettt
Michael R — Time to Play some WoW!
Michael M — IBM’s prediction Market

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Michael and Michael welcome special guest Sandy Kearney on the show this week. Sandy is a founding member of IBM’s 3D Internet team and ThinkTank3D.org. Michael M. is on his yearly pilgrimage to South Carolina, so that his Z can hang out with it’s siblings, at the BMW Roadster Homecoming. We have a ton of great tags this week, thanks to all our listeners who have been busy on their tagging.

Social Media
Does Social Media Scale
Running across Azeroth
Porting Twitter to Ubiquity
What is ubiquity

Phone
iPhone 3g No Hardware problem
Silly Phone Packs
Cell Phone sign language

Design
Math Dimensions
Motion Capture
Interview
Interior Designs
Textured Graphics in a Flash

Automotive / Green
Electric Cars

Final Thoughts
Michael M – Aufwiedersehen to BMW Roadster Homecoming.
Sandy K – Future guests
Michael R – Home network outage!

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Simplicity + Maximum Verbosity

Matt and Michael M ensure that the show goes on, despite Michael R’s illness — sending good wishes to our missing co-host with a slightly longer than usual episode, Matt and Michael talk about the beauty of simplicity, both in software and hardware products, reminisce about Dungeons and Dragons and discuss the grand sport of peep jousting . When things just work, it’s a beautiful thing. Matt is slowly breaking down, calling an iPhone “seductive” and actually tagging links with the device that must not be named. Could we be going 3 for 3 in the Dogear Nation host to iPhone ratio? Time will tell. In any case, pay attention to Matt’s final thought and backup your hard drive. You’ll be glad you did!

Listener links
Brian Jager / Kiss MS-Project goodbye — http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9896473-2.html?tag=nl.e724
37 signals / Basecamp — http://www.37signals.com/
KISS Wired Article — http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_signals
Sharkware CRM software — http://www.sharkware.org/
Harvey Mackay — http://www.harveymackay.com/

Social Networking
diigo – http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9898696-2.html
Lotus Connections — http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/
Twitterfox plugin — http://www.naan.net/trac/wiki/TwitterFox
Conversation has left the blogosphere – (TechMeme) – http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_conversation_has_left_the_blogosphere.php
5 Ways How Gen Y is changing IT — http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Five-Ways-Generation-Y-May-Reinvent-IT/
Matt’s simple aggregation wiki — http://underoak.bluehost.ibm.com/

iPhone-a-rama
Gartner re iPhone for Enterprise – http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39369898,00.htm
Old Gartner prediction not ready for enterprise — http://www.macworld.com/article/58530/2007/06/gartnerit.html
Microsoft Mouse 25th anniversary — http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/25thanniversary.mspx
MxTube native YouTube downloader — http://www.installerapps.com/2008/03/13/mxtube/

Obligatory 3D Internet
Doing Business In Virtual Worlds http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Trends/Doing-Business-in-Virtual-Worlds/?kc=CIOMINEPNL031208
Geek Love / Gary Gygax — http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09rogers.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Dungeons & Dragons — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_&_Dragons
Monster Manual — http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndcore/177550000
Zork — http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

Mixed Bag - Visualize World Peeps
Adults join kids in call for world peeps — http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/13338.html
Hail the Peep — http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/999423.html
Just Born (makers of Peeps) official website — http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/

Final Thoughts
Matt — backup your hard drive!
Drobo share — http://www.drobo.com/products_droboshare.aspx

Michael — from Luis Suarez’ tweet
Tom Peters Excellence for the Rest of Us “book” for Real People — http://www.tompeters.com/blogs/freestuff/uploads/Book_for_Real_People031808A.doc

The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution — http://www.amazon.com/Summer-1787-Men-Invented-Constitution/dp/0743286928

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