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The Michaels enjoy a great set of listener tags. Andy has to take customer calls, and is unable to join us this week. We take this time with Andy away, to have a few shameless self promotions and tell you what we’ve been unto in our day jobs lately. Michael M. tries to infect the world with his coughs as he is in the scary eastern parts of Tennessee, but since it all via skype you are all safe — Happy Halloween.

Thank you to all the listeners who make this show possible each week with your tags – epredator, wideawakewesley, lunamoth, billsweeney1, ragtag_2, rickmans and lx5

What’s Cool
Michael M – Shameless Self Promotion
Michael R – Shameless Self Promotion

3D Internet
Future of the Enterprise: Special Event Live from San Francisco – epredator
Hands on with Acer’s 3D laptop – wideawakewesley
The Value of Virtual Worlds – epredator

Tech-No-tronic
Which is easier to understand: Google Wave or Cardiothoracic Surgery? – lunamoth
Beyond the Kindle: Color, Video E-Paper Devices Are Just Around the Corner – billsweeney1
Robots Tiptoe toward terminator – billsweeney1
Amazon goes Window shopping – michaelrowe01
CoolPics, CoolLens, CoolIris- Whatever!
Photo editor online – Pixlr.com edit image – ragtag_2
Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe – rickmans

Social Netorkin’
Peace on Facebook – rickmans
D&D on Google Wave – michaelrowe01
Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists – rickmans
In Authoritarian Regimes, Social Media Doesn’t Only Help Social Activists – rickmans
Privacy is dead and social media hold smoking gun – rickmans
Facebook ‘memorialises’ profiles – wideawakewesley
Uni adds Twitter to the curriculum – rickmans
Reading the Telegraph costs the British economy £1.38bn – rickmans

Da Governator
Track where US gov bailout trillions went with augmented reality mobile app – wideawakewesley
Net set for ‘language shake-up’ – lx5

Final Thoughts
Michael R – Alternative Mac software – AlternativeTo.net
Michael M – Real Life iPhone Costumes Put Your Crappy Halloween Outfit to Shame and Smart Phone Etiquette

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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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Michael and Michael end up without our intrepid English co-host due to scheduling issues this week as we welcome new tagger bluebus to the show this week. We explore the astral world with Ghostwire, the Quantum World with Pigeons, and the old world with a Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone. At the same time we ask the important question – Do you Twitter to Facebook, or Facebook update your Tweets? Which one makes you smarter? Thanks for the great set of tags this week to: wideawarewesley, epredator, lx5, billsweeney1, heidigoseek, duckboxxer, bluebus, uncommonman, and lbenitz3000.

What’s Cool
Andy — Electric Light Orchestras (with iPhones) – via @rucsb on Twitter
Michael R — Monopoly City Streets
Michael M — New iPhone features in OS 3.1

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Ghostwire Nintendo DSi as a PKE meter (wideawakewesley)
Augmented reality Wiki (epredator)
Mydeco 3D home design (lx5)
Ultravox Freeman’s Sears Video

Tech-no-tronic
Pigeon powered network (billsweeney1)
Google Streetview Explained (wideawakewesley)
Asus e-Reader (heidigoseek)

Mac-a-rooni
Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone (duckboxxer)

Social Networkin’
Screencasts on Twitter (bluebus)
Dogear-Nation Screenr Test
Digital Distractions (uncommonman)
MIT’s personas- They’re back (lx5)
Facebook intelligence greater than Twitter intelligence? (rickmans)
Tweet MyMac (lbenitz3000)

Final thoughts
Michael R — Meerkat Viewer for Secondlife and Opensim
Michael M — BMW and Windows 7 —
looking forward to the Durham Bulls Blues Festival on Saturday, Sept 12th

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Michael, Andy, and Michael welcome special guest Matt Simpson from Sweettt to talk about the segregation of adult content within Second Life. Michael M. would have talked more about the conference he was at last week, but then he would have had to kill us. Is shameless self promotion on Twitter OK? Is it OK for Amazon to remove books from your Kindle? Can you build a token economy within Social Networks? Is Best Buy being fair with their Web vs. in store pricing? Are luggage handlers, mis-handling your luggage? All these questions and more will be addressed this week on Dogear-Nation!

Thank you for your tags: Sweettt, kevinaires, epredator, gypsychk, uncommonman, wideawakewesley, lx5, rickmans, and jtonline

What’s Cool
Andy — iSnapShotter and Photoshop Like App for iPhone
Michael R — WoW the Movie has a Director
Michael M — Gaming for Peace
Matt — ebook reader by Plasticlogic (sweettt) and Catching Kindle (sweettt)

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Long Tail for Virtual Worlds (kevinaires)
Babylon SLURL
Castle Wolfenstein 3D source code available – man the parapets! (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Wakey-Wakey watch (gypsychk)
Swpppt — sound of whispernet taking books *off* your kindle (uncommonman)
Spotify adds 2m more tracks (wideawakewesley)

Social Networkin’
House tweet party (lx5)
Monetizing twitter (lx5)
When did you join Twitter? (kevinaires)
Me me me me (all about me!) (rickmans)
Another bad twitter brand story (rickmans)
Note to self: don’t piss off a musician (uncommonman)

Final thoughts
Matt — Singingbowl
Andy — Dogs Who Twitter
Michael R — Image-based Search (previously mentioned on Episode 71)
Michael M — Temporal photos

Links we didn’t get to
Attack of the 50 foot twitter! (wideawakewesley)
Gardeners tend their social networks too! (jtonline)

Bonus links
A different kind of TV Remote Control
Comic Themes for Google
Dave Carroll
Andy’s blog post on 140 characters

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