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After some major user issues with talkshoe Michael, Michael, and Andy do our much hyped Windows 7 launch party. We thank the team over at BeanTraders coffee shop for allowing us to record the show with a live group of listeners. Even though this was our Windows 7 party show, our great listener tags gave us some great 3D internet and Tech-no-tronic topics. Keep on tagging!

Andy joins us remotely -

Andy Via Skype

Win7-a-rooni
Windows7 hotter than the Nimbus2000!
Windows 7 Whopper
Linus Torvalds – Windows7 get a big thumbs up
IBM teams up with Ubuntu (ragtag_2)
Trust me Mac ad (carolinabigblue)

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented Collaboration in Mixed Environments (ACME) – watch out for that virtual anvil! (uncommonman)
IBM, Nokia and VTT — virtual meetings in physical spaces
Cisco’s 19,000 people can’t be wrong – gaming and virtual reality (epredator)
‘Explodes’ off page (wideawakewesley)
Total Engagement (epredator)
Hacking iphone for true AR (heidigoseek)

Tech-no-tronic
Taste test search engines – you be the judge (lx5)
Broadband in a backpack (wideawakewesley)
Al Franken mobile satellite uplink
Hacking the weather — give someone else a blizzard (gypsychk)
You can lend a book to a crook or a schnook and get it back without a hook — if you use a nook!

Social Networkin’
Sellin’ Tweets to Bing & Google (heidigoseek)
Add a dash of fun (lx5)
Mary Poppins Principle

Final thoughts
Andy — Shiny new Apple things
Michael R — Bean Traders
Michael M — Bluetooth Banana

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Celebrating all things Peep-a-licious!

Peepfest is an annual springtime event held in Chapel Hill’s Southern Village community (discussed on the podcast in episode 95), where a celebration of the Peeps marshmallow confection take a number of different forms, from the classic poetry competition, to a cooking contest, to peep jousting (my favorite!), album art contests, the Peeplympics (including spoon races), a Peepyata and much more.

Great fun was had by all back in April — and while the organizing entity of Market Street Books has closed it’s doors, there are plans in the works for the 2010 edition!

We thought that it would be helpful to better explain this celebration in a video format — hope you enjoy the clip!

And for a few more pictures — http://www.marketstreetbooks.com/events/peepfest2009.html

This weeks’ episode is running a little late, so in the meantime, here’s something just for fun. I was playing around with LucidChart, an online flow chart / organization chart tool, and I thought I’d illustrate the chain of command in the Dogear Nation presenting team

NB some of the connections may not be strictly accurate…

You can have a look at the published chart in web format here and PDF format here.