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This week Andy and Michael begin the show and evidently can’t count, next week is episode 144. We also try our straight blast thru format of listener tags again this week. Tell us what you think? Do you like this format, or are separate and unique sections the way we should go. We like to experiment! And don’t forget to rate us on iTunes, tell your friends, drop us an email at dogearnation@gmail.com

What’s Cool
Andy – DC Interview
Michael R – Comdex goes Virtual

Listener Tags
Mind Crime! – epredator
Do Avatar’s Change the Way we Think – epredator
Companies are using more online communities- rawnshah
Management thru collaboration – rawnshah
Stonehenge Comes Alive – lx5
BBC Domesday book – BONUS TAG
Youtube allows HTML5 – lx5
New SecondLife Viewer allows for Shared Media – MattSimpson

Quick Hits
Google Liquid Galaxy – lx5, epredator
Are virtual worlds over – uncommonman, epredator
Infectious cool – carolinabigblue
COBOL takes on Ruby on Rails, with COGS! – uncommonman

Final Thoughts
Andy – Greatest Lightsaber Fight you’ll Ever See
Michael R – Speaking about Gaming and Developer Teams

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Michael R. forgot to hit the big red button this week, so we have an abbreviated show with Andy and Michael R, going thru all the excitement you missed. This random walk is brought to you by the letters F-U-B-A and R.

Links

Lights Out for the Dark Star – wideawakewesley

Star Wars – Fail – ePredator

Shift – Run – Stop – lxs

Symbian – Opensource – About Time/Too Late – lxs

Private Surfing – lxs

Paid to Play – ePredator

BBC Documentary about the Internet – lxs

Google’s Social Circle – andypiper

A Day without Google – andypiper

Iron Man Sticker – michaelrowe01

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Andy and Michael soldier on without Michael Martine this week, but Michael, ever the professional, drops us a few inserts to make sure that he’s cool enough. This week’s tags are a great collection of technology and geekiness including – Spheres, spiral galaxies, and assassins. Thanks to all of you who tag, and come meet us on October 23rd if you are in the RTP area of North Carolina as we do our Windows House Party.

What’s Cool
Andy — Magic Wand
Michael R — MythHackers
Michael M — Red Shirt Cologne And Star Wars at National Mall in Washington, DC

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Spherical Virtual World (epredator)
Augmented Reality showing Twin Towers (wideawakewesley)
Augmented Reality apps to buy now! (kevinaires)
Unlock content by snapping a picture of a logo (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
MS-Mouse on multitouch (wideawakewesley)
Netflix Prize awarded (lxs)
3-D Stellar wiki (Philip Hartman)

Social Networkin’
GPS Assassins (Philip Hartman)
(Bonus)Halting State by Charles
Top collaboration tools that aren’t Google Wave (Rick Mans)
Analysis of leaked/weak passwords (wideawakewesley)

Final thoughts
Andy — Micro Men on BBC4
Michael R — Emotiv Headset – Developers Kit!!
Michael M — Everything’s L$10 and here’s a voucher

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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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All three of our hosts this week got hooked on the video from The Guild – “Do you want to Date my Avatar” after a great – quick hit post from our good friend epredator over at Feeding Edge… Thanks Ian for making the week a lot more fun. We continue to look for your feedback on making your show better… remember we are podcasting your tags. We appreciate all the tags we get each week, and the feedback that we receive via Twitter, emails, and the site. Spend some time this week telling your friends about us, and take some time to comment about the show, either on the site or on our iTunes feed.

As we continue to look at the convergence of our digital and physical worlds, this week’s tag from gypsychk is talking about videos in printed magazines, you have to see this to believe it… here!

Uncommonman shows us that First Person Shooters (FPSs) work in the real world too! And Michael R’s rant – fizzles quickly when Andy points out — The Rest of the Story!

Special thanks to – kiambogo, epredator, uncommonman, gypsychk, lx5, rickmans, tomppayne, and @jamestenniswood for your tags this week.

What’s Cool
Andy — Quake Live!
Michael R — Scary Robot… it’s fast and accurate
Michael M — Rent your next textbook at Cheeg – And while you’re at it – Listen to Random-Abstractions!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
A Second Chance for Second Life (kiambogo)
Second Life API for rich media beyond Quicktime (epredator)
FPS with real guns (uncommonman)
Date my avatar! (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Video killed the magazine ad, well not really… (gypsychk)
Esquire’s cover
nano-origami DNA lithography (lx5)
Billing for your time (rickmans)

Mac-a-rooni
Why AT&T killed Google Voice (kiambogo)
iPhone is not easy to use (rickmans)

Social Networkin’
Has Twitter’s popularity peaked? (tomppayne)

Final thoughts
Andy — Woofertime! – @jamestenniswood via Twitter
Michael R — Could this be the best Private Cloud architecture out there??
Michael M — Beer and Blues

Bonus Links
Proton Media
Launch.com
innovation!
iPhone Time Travel
Lotus Connections for Corporate Micro-Blogging

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