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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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Thanks to ePredator, Michael R. spends a significant amount of time talking about World of Warcraft, while Michael M. wants to play MMO’s by himself. Andy reiterates that Matt needs a Mac. We are all incredibly excited by LX5′s link on molecular printing — Here comes the Star Trek replicator — way cool! Andy reminds us, if you make a website, don’t loop your midi file… it’s really really annoying. We also have started a Dogear-Nation wave on google wave, so let us know if you have a Wave account and we’ll add you to this wave.

Thanks for all the great tags this week: epredator, mattsimpson, lx5, heidigoseek, rickmans, phil_hartman, and wideawakewesley.

What’s Cool
Andy — Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 Karmic Koala on Acer Aspire One 110L
Michael R — Emotiv headset Update and Headset in pieces
Michael M — It’s Gobbledygook!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
MMORPG scaling (epredator)
Thriller in SL (MattSimpson)

Tech-no-tronic
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot — molecular printing (lx5)
Tiny living room (heidigoseek)
Why is Wave so complicated? (rickmans)
Pulp Fiction as a Google Wave – NSFW (via Twitter – wideawakewesley)
Temporary disposable email (phil_hartman)
Chronological email (wideawakewesley)
Mind to mind communication (epredator)
Dyson bladeless fan (lx5)

Win-a-rooni
Which version of Win 7 do you need

Final thoughts
Andy — Still waiting to Choose what Version of Windows I need
Michael R — Google hides the Usenet
Michael M — Google Starting Book Store

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Keeping up our mid-week blog postings, I thought I’d remind folks of a few ways to get in touch!

0. Keep tagging!

Dogear Nation is a show about things you find interesting on the web. Just keep tagging the news stories and sites you discover with ‘dogear-nation’ on del.icio.us and we’ll round up our picks every week.

… this one is so important, it comes outside of the five

1. Email us

Unlike Luis, we haven’t given up email completely! You can always drop us a line at dogearnation@gmail.com and let us know what you think of the show, comment on previous episodes, or tell us what you think we could be doing next. We love listener email!

2. Subscribe to (and comment on) the blog

You’re reading this already, so the chances are that you do follow the blog. Tell your friends about us, and remember you can leave us a comment here on the blog too – particularly if you want to comment on something we’ve said on the show. We try to post extra information and news here in between episodes, so it is worth following.

3. Tweet us…

We’re on Twitter. Follow us for news and updates.

4. Be a Facebook fan!

We now have a fan page on Facebook where you can also get updates, or share fan pictures. This is new, so we’re still working out what kinds of things to share over there – let us know if you have ideas. Oh, and be sure to share the page on your profile and with your Facebook friends to tell them about the show.

5. Watch the Kyte stream and talk to us during the show

It doesn’t run every week, but when we’re recording the show we’re sometimes streaming video live on Kyte, where you can watch the recording and chat to us. We’ll usually announce it on Twitter if we’re able to stream that week (another good reason to follow us on Twitter!)

Thank you so much for your support of the show. We always have a lot of fun creating it, and it’s entirely listener-driven. Keep tagging!

In this week’s episode…

With Matt and Michael M recording out of their respective offices, Michael R, along with special guest Kevin Aires join from the Javits Center show floor to discuss their experiences at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference, that is, until they were kicked out of the quiet room they found for recording. With our one year public anniversary on April 5th, and just having past our two year overall anniversary, we are very excited to have been nominated for the prestigious Bafflers award.

Show Links:

Opening

• Mike Rhodin: “email is dead” at VoiceCon 2008

• Mike Rhodin, unified communications keynote at VoiceCon 2008

Twitter

• Twirl – Great client & can manage multiple twitter accounts

• Seesmic acquires Twirl

• Also updating and managing multiple twitter accounts

Obligatory 3D Internet

• VW2008

• Masa Group — ai bots

• Havok 4

• Simulator update

• Windlight New Viewer

• Brian Jager listener link — IBM / SL

• IBM / SL Reuters story

• Scenecaster — embeddable 3d scene in your browser / blog

• mouse 3D Connexion

April Fool’s fun

• WoW new hero class

• Moos Mighty Card

• Nintendo DS — guitar hero

• Gmail

• Maholo Daily

• Fluegel’s B flat story on NPR

• Marketplace economic stimulus story on NPR

Final thoughts

• Matt — new website coming up shortly

• Michael M — Vote for Dogear-Nation! (IBM internal)

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This weeks musical interludes are brought to you by Lord of The Rings Online and the Zune. Michael R. gives his perspectives from the Game Developer’s Conference, while Michael M. and Matt S. admire Luis Suarez’s announcement of becoming email free. Free your inbox and get some Swag from Dogear-Nation’s new Coffee Mugs.

Dogear-Nation Coffee Mugs –http://www.dogearnation.com/2008/02/22/added-how-to-tag/

Games and Mind Control:
GDC — http://www.gdconf.com/
Emotiv — http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080220005408&newsLang=en
Computers match human brains — http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/computers-to-match-human-brains-by-2030-782978.html

The Data Center of the Future
3D Data Center — http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/IBMs-Labs-3D-Data-Center/

Entertainment
Nanoscope — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqc4kp5CHKU
Mikael Haglund –>
Zune videoshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKIDdIaFyE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIk4qTKmKzE
Project Gizmo — http://www.gizmoproject.com/
Luis Suarez — http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/discuss/2008/chq_lifewithoutemail_022008.html
ODW Next — http://w3.tap.ibm.com/myTAP/offering/viewoffering.wss?offeringId=OFF50161

Obligatory 3D Internet Section
Brian Olore — http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/bad_avatar.phpVAT in SL — http://secondlife.com/corporate/vat.php
Portal Song in LOTRO — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFIWagOkGM
Stairway to Heaven — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3PwQ26eRo

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