Dogear Nation

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/

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 33 - Where are you Michael? [39:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (504)

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: Gaming, Green, Machinima, Podcast, Solar Power, TV, Virtual Worlds, Year-End

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/

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 18 - Virtual Ghost Town or Expected 3DI Antihype [34:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (22)

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: bbc, blogging, dogear, filesharing, Green, hypecycle, lonelyplanet, longtail, microcredit, TED, WoW