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While Andy continues his hunt for our one Chinese listener, Kelly continues to fill his seat with witty banter. The Michaels continue to look for the best of our listeners’ tags, and our listeners wonder, what have our hosts gotten themselves into. With a major Technotronic section this week, we have an exciting, exciting show. So tag, rate, and subscribe with a big cup of your favorite beverage, and enjoy the show.

What’s cool?
Kelly — How I almost saved the earth – From Go to Woe
Michael R. — UV statues
Michael M — Augmented reality rock band

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Intel / Nokia research on 3DI – MeeGo rickmans

Tech-no-tronic
Seeing computing in action using 1980s computers lx5
LEGO MOMA heidigoseek
Call phones from Gmail allerhed
Google acquisitions ginormous visualization andypiper
Now that’s a jam gypsychk
Free Hugs, now available over long distance via SMS lx5

Mac-a-rooni
Patent to block jailbroken phones? heidigoseek
Police Officer sues for Overtime based on cell Phone
iPad of the tiger

Social Networkin’
Do not go past Go, also do not collect £200 lx5
Do not click next for these installs gypsychk
No blockin’ Mark heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Kelly — Wii fit baby robotics
Michael M — Is that a Movie theatre in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Michael R — Buzz just a waste of time?

bonus links
Lego Dali
More Lego Artists
Drum Shirt
Hooked on a Feeling – the Ooga Chaka Song

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This special live recording was made on June 29th, as part of a IBM Innovator’s club meeting. We gave the team a special behind the scenes look at how we started Dogear-Nation, how it has evolved, and how we record a show. As part of that meeting, we did an abbreviated version of the show (really only 15 minutes shorter than our target show length). We want to make a special shout out to all those who tagged links for this special show with the tag “innovators-club”.

What’s cool?
Michael M — The avatar will see you now (via kiambogo)
Andy — Daily Mail 0, Andy Piper 1. Next round, Brazil. The Snowglobe lipsync mentioned in 108 and TinyChat and Twitter (via @mauricioswg)
Michael R — 3D Puzzles and Soccer

Innovator’s Club Tags
Right Ear’d (gpsychk)
Can you believe this Crap!?! (gpsychk)
Social Media conference Future Focus (cliveharris)

Final Thoughts
Michael R — Amazon calls’ NC bluff
Andy — Five Levels of Social Media (andypiper)
Michael M — Another shameless plug! (via lx5)

Special Swag
Commemorative Mug for listeners (UK version here)

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Michael Rowe and Matt Simpson take some time to wrap up the year with special pre-recorded sections from Michael Martine, who missed his first EVER episode of Dogear-Nation. The guys list their top innovations and wish lists for 2007, and Predictions for 2008.

Fun discussions:
Simpsonizer – http://www.simpsonizeme.com/

Top 3 Innovations:
Michael Rowe – Green Datacenters – Monitoring and Visualization by Michael Osias at IBM – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j65RkMS9EGY
iClone – Favorite tool for creating machinima – http://www.reallusion.com
LOTR Online – Great visual game, good game play, familure setting – http://www.lotro.com/

Matt Simpson – The New Dawn of Solar – http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/green/item_59.html

Wish List Items:
Matt Simpson -
Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 HD – http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/pioneer-kuro-pdp-5080/4505-6482_7-32476901.html?tag=pop Bose® Lifestyle® 35 DVD home entertainment system - http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=ls35_dvd_index
Ultrasone Edition 9 – http://www.headphonenews.com/2006/10/08/ultrasone-edition-9-the-best-headphones-in-the-world/

Michael Martine -
Rock band — http://www.rockband.com/
A squeezebox — http://www.slimdevices.com/
A delorean — http://www.delorean.com/

Tops for Next year:
Michael Rowe –
2008 will be the year that VW become “real”
2008 will be the year that the iPhone becomes valuable and usable
2008 will be the year that Dogear-Nation gets better audio tools

Final Thoughts:
Michael Rowe – Never “EVER” leave it to your buddies to edit your voice
Matt Simpson – Stay Tuned for Michael
Michael Martine – Looking forward to 2008 of fun with Dogear-Nation and Check out Sports Sync Radio http://www.sportsyncradio.com/

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Summertime slowdown, appropriate place on the Gartner hype cycle or a real move out of the virtual worlds? You be the judge as Michael M, Matt and Steven discuss a couple of recent articles that observe that there is a real/perceived slowdown in 3D Internet virtual worlds traffic. These hoopy froods continue the episode recorded on 3 Aug with an ecologically friendly print solution and a roundup of old and new filesharing services.

Listener links
Steven Uniack
Kiva Microcredit & Microlending — http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=15133
Brothers communicating only via video blogging — http://www.brotherhood2.com/

Robert Myers
Dogear tools — http://dogear.tap.ibm.com/toolbox?lang=en_US

Obligatory 3D Internet
Wired magazine article, Lonely Planet — http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-08/ff_sheep#
The Long Tail — http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/07/why-i-gave-up-o.html
Chris Anderson’s Long Tail talk at Ted — http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/72
Gartner Group hypecycle visuals — http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2006/08/10/gartners-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies-2006
Gartner Group hype cycle web reference — http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp
Crankygeeks.com — http://www.crankygeeks.com/
Senator plays WOW, level 70 priest — http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/07/25/senator-plays-wow-has-lvl-70-priest/
Paleray’s WOW profile on The Armory — http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Silver+Hand&n=Paleray
WOW as the new golf — http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1922782,00.asp
Lord of the Rings Online — http://www.lotro.com/
ID Software (home of Doom & Quake) — http://www.idsoftware.com/

Going Green
Greenprint — http://www.printgreener.com/

Filesharing Fun
Going down the Tubes — http://www.tubesnow.com/
TechSmith — http://www.techsmith.com/
Jing Project — http://www.jingproject.com/
Cattail — http://cattail.cambridge.ibm.com/cattail/
Groove — http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/FX100487641033.aspx

Final Thought #1 — stay tuned for final thought #2
Final Thought #2 — don’t panic

Discovered after the show & while creating the show notes, a link to the BBC-hosted online encyclopedic guide to Life, the Universe and Everything.
h2g2 — http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/

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