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It’s a very silly episode this week for some reason. No, not silly, Happy, Happy as a Clam. This phrase sets the tone of the show for some strange reason. Could it have been the rainy day in North Carolina infecting us all with crazy, silly? Or is it that international talk like a pirate day happening on Saturday? Who knows? All we know is we have a great set of tags this week from: wideawakewesley, epredator, kevinaires, rickmans, lbenitez300, heidigoseek, and bluebus. Enjoy the show!

What’s Cool
Andy — Speaking about on-line Personas and Social Collaboration
Michael R — Dungeons & Dragons online
Michael M — Ben Stiller shills for followers

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented reality futures (wideawakewesley)
SL and 3D Models merger? (epredator)
Cisco Virtual Event Analysis (kevinaires / epredator)
Should have schools embraced SL by now? (wideawakewesley)

Tech-no-tronic
Augmented reality contact lens (rickmans)
Cordless electricity WiTricity (lbenitez3000)
We control the horizontal… stereoscopic pictures (uncommonman)
Beethoven visualization (heidigoseek)
Taking pictures with a CRT (doorstop) (rickmans)
The sky of earth (bluebus)

Social Networkin’
jajah @call twitter calling (lbenitez3000)

Final thoughts
Andy — flickroom
Michael R — nutin
Michael M — Monopoly City Streets Reset!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:09 — 9.9MB)

It’s a one-man band this week as Andy tries to make up for his time away from the show, and Michael and Michael are unable to join. It’s a bit of a different, shorter show – but the same great listener tags.

What’s cool?
Andy – OMG Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Can SL help doctors to treat patients? (andypiper)
SL development tools (lx5)
Trademarking an avatar (lx5)

We Want – Information!
British Government wants to know your Facebook friends (kiambogo)
Questions over Google Book Rights Registry (kiambogo)
Shahi Visual Dictionary mashup (lx5)
Did you know…? video (comcipher)

Green tech
Brits build solar parking bay (lx5)

Final Thoughts
Andy – Come Back Michael R and Michael M!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:22 — 6.6MB)

This week Michael and Michael welcome Sandy Kearney and Harry Karidis, co-founders of the “Open ThinkTank 3D”, which specializes in developing innovative ideas around the use of all things 3D. ePredator provides us a great link on Next Gen virtual worlds, while kiambogo provides us a link on how games are getting into our every day activities. How fit will the Wii Fit actually make us.

What’s cool?
Harry — Open Thinktank 3D
Michael R — I’m a Tweetaholic
Sandy — Gametech conference and NSF TAxonomy of virtual worlds
Michael — functioning on lack of sleep

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Next gen virtual worlds (epredator)
Data visualization of urban landscapes
Infiltration of play (kiambogo)
Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain’s Maximum Potential

Social Networkin’
Corporate social networking (epredator)
Why the kids don’t use twitter (andypiper)
Tweepme (andypiper)
Social collider (andypiper)

Final thoughts
Michael R — Space Bat (comcipher)
Sandy — all the stuff is integrating closely & tightly together
Harry — Sense of Humor is important
Michael M — Tracking dementia patients with GPS (kevinaries)

Great tags that we didn’t get to in today’s show:
Tech-no-tronic
Current cost software (mardibloke)
Flying cars (kevinaires)
Jotnote (kevinaires)
IBM develops tech to talk to web (huskiesct)

Mac-a-rooni
New iphone OS tech (kevinaires)
iPhone as a modem
Apple’s 99% (jtonline)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:49 — 11.2MB)