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The Michael’s welcome special guest Dave Kamalsky from Linden Lab to the show. We have a great section on virtual worlds including both the good, the bad, and the really ugly. Andy is traveling this week, but should be back with us next week. For those who celebrate, Happy Easter Weekend.

What’s Cool
Dave — iPad cabinet
Michael R — First Flight
Michael M — wii-tastic

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Understanding Islam through virtual worlds comic book format – michaelrowe01
Are virtual worlds over? – ranoka
Metaplace closing
Vitality
Forterra sold to SAIC
There.com shut down
Venuegen out of public beta – carolinabigblue
12 MMORPG failures – epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Welcome to our new (you get the picture) – phil_hartman
Ethical design – lx5

Mac-a-rooni
Apple vs Predator – epredator
Scott-e-vest ipad ready clothing

Social Networkin’
TV dinner
Facebook privacy changes – rickmans & andypiperuk
Facebook bigger than Google – andypiperuk

Final thoughts
Dave — no thoughts
Michael R — Snoop’s Luke Skywalker Shoes via @billhiggins on Twitter
Michael M — Hit the Big Button

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Michael and Michael welcome our new “official” co-host – Andy Piper, and then end up having to move the recording time this week to way too late in the evening. So hopefully Andy will be joining us next week. This week’s show has a great set of listener tags. We look at the revival of Second Life (really??), new technology in Forterra, a new Virtual World in Australia, out of body experiences in Sweden, and a finish off our Obligatory 3D internet section with a really big beer! As we move over to the Social Networking section, Duckboxxer helps us see ads on Twitter, while Twitter turns down a rumored $500m deal from Facebook, we learn what we don’t know about language immersion from cynicalicious while Pownce gets pwned when they are purchased by Six Apart, and we resolve with the real value of the Re-Tweet. Our Mac-a-rooni section begins with Vista users begging Microsoft not to make Windows 7 easy to user over the expense of power and functionality, Kevinaires sends us a link to a cool iPhone holder, and Matt Goerning taking on Apple users and Steve Jobs.

Show Links
Obligatory 3D Internet
Second Life’s Second Wind?
Forterra & IBM Unified Communications — (andypiperuk)
Foreterra & Lotus — (epredator)
Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop
body swapping — (twitterati)
Big Ad!

Social Networking
tweeterize — (duckboxxer)
tweeterize
Twitter tweets “thanks, but no thanks” to Facebook
iKnow — (Cynicalicious)
Pownce pwned
RT looking for a kidney transplant

Mac-a-rooni
Don’t make Windows7 too mac-like
Just mobile xtand — (kevinaires)
Mapple!

Final Thoughts
Michael M — Amazon iPhone app
Michael R — Customer Service is not dead

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Michael and Michael are back on Kyte.tv this week, with another behind the scenes look at the recording for Dogear-Nation. We do this most weeks at 3pm EST at (http://www.kyte.tv/ch/97390-dogear-nation). You can get notification of the recording starting by following Michael on twitter at http://twitter.com/michaelrowe01. We focus this week’s show all about games, including the game of Monopoly and how it plays into Google’s latest activities.

This week’s Links:

Game News
LittleBigPlanet: SackBoys in the Wild
Worlds in Motion Summit – Michael Rowe
Spore

Google News
Google Mix-up caused $1b Run on United
Single Web Hit LEd to UAL Glitch
Is Google a Monopoly?

Chrome News
Scott McCloud comic book

other chrome things
Wheels
Chicago Cloud Gate
Zippo lighter
Faucet
Optimus Prime belt buckle
Soda can dispenser

Social Networking
Bleeper.de
eReader

State of Things
Gaming in the Triangle

More games”
Microsoft Ad-2

Final Thoughts
Michael M. – Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?
Michael R. – Innovation Jam 2008

VW Interview
John Burwell – Forterra Systems

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Michael Rowe gives a quick rundown of Virtual Worlds 2007 conference. With about 1,200 attendees this was THE conference to be at this past week around virtual Worlds. Almost all the big name virtual world vendors and tool providers had booths, while three tracks kept attendees asking and answering questions around the metaverse.

Virtual worlds 2007 – http://www.virtualworlds2007.com/
poser 7 – http://www.e-frontier.com/go/poser
iClone – http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/
IBM and Linden Lab announcement – http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22428.wss
IBM Leads VW Standards – http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/10/11/ibm-virtual-worlds-and-standards-a-roundup/
My Pictures of Vendor Floor – http://web.mac.com/michaelrowe01/Site/Random_Thoughts/Entries/2007/10/14_Virtual_Worlds_%E2%80%9807.html
There.com – http://www.there.com/
Vivox – http://www.vivox.com/
Electric Sheep – http://www.electricsheepcompany.com/
Sheep is working with CSI – http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/electric-sheep-.html
Forterra – http://www.forterrainc.com/
Multiverse – http://www.multiverse.net/
Activeworlds – http://www.activeworlds.com/
Tony O’Driscol – http://wadatripp.wordpress.com/
Ian Hughes – Speaking at Virtual Worlds Forum – http://virtualworldsforum.com/conference-programme/

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