Dogear Nation » Podcast

While Andy begins his quest to find our one Chinese listener, we welcome Kelly Yeoh (@kelisha on twitter) on to the show to talk give us the southern hemisphere’s perspective of our listener tags. And boy do we have a bunch of great tags this week: glue, snow, web, games, and books are all on the menu today. So stick around and enjoy the show!

Dogear Nation search using Duck Duck Go

What’s cool?
Kelly — Goosing the search engine game and Geek Girl Dinners
Michael R. — Indie Game Challenge
Michael M — Mary Poppins Principle

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Australia’s 2010 election andypiper
Augmented reality object glue: junaio glue epredator
Sketchup to SL — sketchy? jtonline
Project Snowstorm epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Higher IQ = < Zzzzs (at least on weekdays) gypsychk
Design is history bradicle
Apps are suburbia, the web is downtown duckboxxer

Mac-a-rooni
Comic books from your video games mobthink

Social Networkin’
just look at all the colors! Is the web dead? bluebus
Read Ayn Rand heidigoseek
Twifficiency heidigoseek
Twournal — book it Lion-o

Final thoughts
Kelly — Andy, I hope I did you proud!
Michael M — I need to shower and shave!
Michael R — Great to have the different perspective on the show

bonus links

Outliers
GeoCities
Comic Strip Aggregator

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:25 — 14.9MB)

We must be getting closer to Halloween, since we have death and undead on our minds. In our 3-D Internet section, we have people living out their lives in robotic forms. In our Tech-no-tronic section, we have the ability to will our Twitter account to someone after we die (could this end up causing a bit of Ghost Tweeting?). In our Win-A-Rooni section, we have Microsoft Windows’ attempt at rebirth with Windows 7 and house parties. And finally, in our Social Networking section, ma.gnolia comes back from the dead with a new invite-only social bookmarking tool. I think it’s time to play with the undead and head over to World of Warcraft!

What’s Cool
Andy — Lego t-shirt
Michael R — Heads up GPS on iPhone
Michael M — Augmented Reality and Bionic Eye, The future mashups are bleeding into the 3-D Internet.

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Linden Speaks at Metanomics Show (epredator)
Linden Lab says SecondLife is Huge! (kevinaires)
Surrogates (wideawakewesley)
Business users who don’t get it — doomed to failure (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Living will for your digital assets (lx5)
Fitbit launched (kevinaires)

Win-a-rooni
Host your own Windows 7 House Party! (lx5)
In da House (uncommonman)
Dogear-Nation’s Windows 7 House Party
Zune OLED screen outshines iPod and Video

Social Networkin’
Magnolia’s ba-ack! – Sorta (heidigoseek)
Visualization for local twitter trends (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts
Andy — Apture (rucsb) Checking Facebook during a burglary and Poken for Business
Michael R — Evidently not playing enough WoW
Michael M — Honda’s Segway-like Unicycle (via kevinaires)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:30 — 8.9MB)

The regular team is back – temporarily – before Michael Rowe heads off on vacation. Michael, Andy and Michael examine the shinyness of virtual world voice chat and new iPhones, but then realise that the GPS system is about to crash. Oh, and there’s a discussion about ten big tech failures too – any nominations for the official Dogear Nation list?

This week’s editor (Andy) would like to apologise for all the Skype chat noises during the episode – the beating will continue until performance improves!

Show Tags

What’s Cool?
Michael R — Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? | The Onion [bonus link - BFG 9000!]
Michael M — kiambogo tweetup, and cool and unusual ice cube trays
Andy — new Polaroid instant digital camera

TOTDIS (guess the acronym)
The Future is Here….The Virtual World for Large Meetings! – CISCO (epredator)
Second Life Gives Avatars Real Voice (kevinaires)
Second Life Has Skype In Its Sights (andypiperuk) [bonus link - Sparkle IM iPhone SL chat app]

Technotronic
Source Reveals Specs And Release Date of Next iPhone (carolinabigblue)
Sony Pictures CEO hates the Internet (epredator)
Owners’ rights to copy DVDs (lx5)
GPS system ‘close to breakdown’ (andypiperuk)

The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade (duckboxxer) – do you agree with this list? suggest your own ideas in the comments!
Facebook an OpenID Relying party (uncommonman)
Early Adopters and Finding “The Next Shiny Object” (andypiperuk)
The Great Address Book Cleanup (lx5)

Taking a sidetrack
SOMESSO conference in 3 minutes
ipadio and ipadio iPhone app

Final thoughts
Michael M — soap and LEGO architecture
Michael R — regrets [bonus link - despair.com] and off-the-grid for 2 weeks
Andy — following up contacts from conferences

The best leftover listener links
Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities (mikerowe01)
Augmented Reality & The Web: Present and Future Scenarios (mikerowe01)
Ebay claims victory in luxury fakes dispute (lx5)
Brussels fines Intel record $1.4bn on grounds of antitrust (lx5)
German motorway strewn with notes (lx5)
Visa Develop Bank Card With Its Own Keypad And Digital Display To Combat Online Shopping Fraud (kevinaires)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:46 — 19.8MB)

This week we welcome back Andy Piper from our UK contingent of Dogear-Nation. This week we focus on Robots, Games, Phones, and Transitions. This week’s launch titles from E3 for the Wii Motion Fit reduces the potential of burning your face when beach fencing. Will Sony’s MAG suck all the phone out of MMO Gaming? Spore is bigger than all of creation! Are we all bored of the iPhone 3G news, yet? Andy actually bought his on the launch day. Are location based services the real reason behind the GPS in the iPhone? Why does the 3G phone need 802.11 connection for iTunes purchase?

Community Volunteers
Lego Robots
Excite Technology Camps for Girls

E3 Readout
Wii Motion Plus Add On – Worst Demo Ever
Wii Music
Sony MAG
More Spore creatures species then real life

iPhone
The Mouse is Dead
Next Gen Navigation
HP New Touch Screen Computer Ads
iPhone Killer App – Pandora

Metavangelist Down!
Roo Reynolds takes new role at the BBC

Final Thoughts
Michael M – Seeing New Niece Today!
Andy P – hmmm.. Check out Exposure App on iPhone
Michael R – Kindle version 2.0 only has color on the outside

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (15.3MB)