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Back to full strength for the start today, but we do lose Michael M. due to conflicts midway thru the show. We go back to the Future and talk about Linden Lab’s new SecondLife Viewer Version 2.0, which comes to us from many of our listeners. We also look at how European privacy and media laws are starting to impact Google and social media sites. Thanks for all the great tags this week!

What’s Cool
Andy — Flower Power Lights
Michael R — Roadie
Michael M — Lego Mindstorms robot solves Rubics cube under 12 seconds via lx5

Obligatory 3-D Internet
SL following Web Browser metaphor – mattsimpson
SL goes 2.0 with webby viewer – epredator
Sneak peek at new SL viewer
Linden hosting a registry of SL viewers – andypiper
Syntensity 3D game builder for the masses – epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Awesome Cast Wraps – uncommonman
Italian Google privacy case – billsweeney1
Facebook opens Hamburg office, now under German data privacy laws – rickmans
NASA’s Lunar Electric Rover iPhone game – allerhed
Google Buzz and Parental Controls – wideawakewesley
Google buys reMail application, removes from appstore
Mozilla Ubiquity no more (or is it?) – heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Andy — Opportunistic Development for Ubuntu
Michael R — Twitter perceptions of Google Buzz and Effie’s Designer Cakes
Michael M — IBM as a digital dancing elephant via lx5

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It’s a black, black Friday as the Michaels both enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend and Andy rambles his way through the tags on his own.

Obligatory 3D Internet

Skape | Building information modelling for major UK cities – online (epredator)

Procedural Inc. – 3D Modeling Software for Urban Environments (epredator)

Augmented reality rig that turns you into a character in a third-person game – Boing Boing (wideawakewesley) and Avatar Machine (and Wes’ podcast Weekly Geekly)

Future Tech / Technotronic

Teleportation (IBM Research) (phil_hartman)

F.lux: – ergonomic tool for working at night on your computer (lx5)

Gaming stuff

Microsoft patents in-game guide system (epredator)

British intelligence spooking Xbox Live – Xbox 360 News at GameSpot (epredator)

Lunar Lander (epredator) and Roo’s Shift Run Stop podcast

Non-gaming stuff

IBM n.Fluent Translation Tool with a Human Touch (lx5) and IBM Dogear

Is Wikipedia maxed out? (rickmans)

Choose your own adventure visualization (lx5)

The week in space / the year in space (michaelrowe01)

Martian landscapes (michaelrowe01)

Fun

Life In Latin (rickmans)

Final What’s Cool Thought Thing

Trinity – Help!
and Lego Matrix

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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 squared enjoy your tags this week, while Andy continues his twitter tour of the world. While we missed you Andy, not really, given all the tweets! We also find out that IBM has put out a public Dogear site for everyone to start their tagging! Do social networking people realize the power of social engineering — the Hackers do!! The big questions we wrestle with are – Can social networking be secure at work? Can you play games with fire in the kitchen? Is Second Life still relevant? All this and more, with your tags on this weeks show. Michael M. also needs to learn the difference between a Tweet and a Twit.

Show Tags
What’s Cool?
Andy — ipadio and Andy’s interview
Michael R — Dogear available publicly
Michael M — Participated on panel discussion at Sapphire 2009, moderated by Erik Brynjolfsson, Director MIT Center for Digital Business

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Can Social Networking Secure at Work? (andypiper)
Serious Game — Fire in a Kitchen (andypiper)
It’s Alive. No, it’s Dead. No, it’s ALIVE! (epredator)
Getting Enterprises into 3-D Worlds (epredator)
Simulink (epredator)
Augmented Reality – Nanobots (epredator)
Futuristic Augmented Reality Scenarios without wormholes (michaelrowe)

Social Networkin’
Getting the scoop on Tweets (michaelrowe01)
Twitter visualization (carolinabigblue)

Didn’t get to
Shamwow in a CyberClean Tub (lx5)
Business cards for the times (andypiper)
Where self-aggrandizement meets Twitter (andypiper)
Google’s Fail Whale in the cloud (michaelrowe01)

Bonus links
Yammer
Pornstar name social engineering
Tech tv episode
Revision 3 ROFL show
Digglabs — swarm

Final thoughts
Michael R — Venugen — beta codes
Michael M — Netbooks on a plane

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This week Michael, Andy, and Michael hear Prince, Nena, and other 80’s bands in their heads as they begin episode 99. Or could it be a spy show with Agent 99 from Get Smart? You’ll have to listen to this week’s show to find out. Michael R. gives a big shout out to our good friend Matt Simpson over at Sweettt for a great cup of coffee.

Show Links

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Virtually there (mattsimpson)
Mindreading headsets (epredator)

Social Networkin’
Brain-twitter (andypiper)
Analyze this! (andypiper)
Punch screen (heidigoseek)
GenY no buy? (andypiper)

Tech-no-tronic
e-bomb (michaelrowe)
To Boldly Go to Playstation Home (andypiper)
Braille ebook (heidigoseek)

Social Responsibilty
Blackout europe (andypiper)
Earth day – make it count (lx5)

Final thoughts
Michael R. — Triangle Tweetup
Andy P. — 15 Minutes of Fame
Michael M. — Death of a bookstore

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