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Thanks to ePredator, Michael R. spends a significant amount of time talking about World of Warcraft, while Michael M. wants to play MMO’s by himself. Andy reiterates that Matt needs a Mac. We are all incredibly excited by LX5′s link on molecular printing — Here comes the Star Trek replicator — way cool! Andy reminds us, if you make a website, don’t loop your midi file… it’s really really annoying. We also have started a Dogear-Nation wave on google wave, so let us know if you have a Wave account and we’ll add you to this wave.

Thanks for all the great tags this week: epredator, mattsimpson, lx5, heidigoseek, rickmans, phil_hartman, and wideawakewesley.

What’s Cool
Andy — Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 Karmic Koala on Acer Aspire One 110L
Michael R — Emotiv headset Update and Headset in pieces
Michael M — It’s Gobbledygook!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
MMORPG scaling (epredator)
Thriller in SL (MattSimpson)

Tech-no-tronic
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot — molecular printing (lx5)
Tiny living room (heidigoseek)
Why is Wave so complicated? (rickmans)
Pulp Fiction as a Google Wave – NSFW (via Twitter – wideawakewesley)
Temporary disposable email (phil_hartman)
Chronological email (wideawakewesley)
Mind to mind communication (epredator)
Dyson bladeless fan (lx5)

Win-a-rooni
Which version of Win 7 do you need

Final thoughts
Andy — Still waiting to Choose what Version of Windows I need
Michael R — Google hides the Usenet
Michael M — Google Starting Book Store

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Michael and Michael get together via skype this week, while Michael R’s studio has pounding hammers and mystery sounds from the construction team outside. We address this week’s burning questions – is SecondLife movie worthy? Can Blind users benefit from a immersive 3D graphical environment? Is the iPhone an immersive virtual world environment? Is Apple stealing employees and patents from other companies? Is the Future Windows 7? Have you joined us on Friend Connect yet? These and many more questions are answered on this week’s Dogear-Nation. So don’t forget to keep tagging with “Dogear-Nation” on the various social bookmarking sites.

Obligatory 3D Internet
The future of media is now
Troops – the video
A bust even before having a chance to be a blockbuster
JenniCam
Virtual worlds support for the visually impaired
Network is the platform — (Phaedra)
iPhone gets unity

Mac-a-rooni
Apple sued over Apple TV, Airport Express and Mac
Windows beta 7

Working the Socialnet
Google Friend Connect
Best producers of short content in 2008
Twitter and how to be followed by other Twitterers — (ragtag_2)
Why brands should be on Twitter — (ragtag_2)

Final Thoughts
Michael M — Tried to give away basketball tickets via Twitter
Michael R — Year in pictures and Majel Barrett-Rodenberry passes away — (Phaedra)

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Michael and Michael welcome back Andy Piper to the show – our social networking expert. We look at the addictive qualities of games and social networking tools thanks to listener Kevin Aires. We investigate if older people are scared of technology from listener Heidigoseek. ToastyMel helps us all become Twitter Stalkers. And listener Adreich muses over Apple’s fear of the other fruits like – Blackberry.

Show Tags

can stop anytime I want
Games to outsell music — (kevinaires)
Compulsive gamers not addicts — (kevinaires)
Don’t trust anyone under 30 — (andypiper)
Scared of technology? — (Heidigoseek)

Social Networkin’ on the tiny silver screen
YouTube goes wide screen — (andypiper)
Kvetch — (Heidigoseek)
Stalking — (toastymel)
Kwout — (kevinaires)

Mac-a-rooni
iPhone advert dropped — (kevinaires)
Apple approves iPhone app by mistake
Apple afraid of RIM? — (Adreich)
Apple developing always on status indicators — (andypiper)

Politics & such
Innovation Agenda
Delete your past

Obligatory Virtual World
Reuters quits second life
SL Reuters Embedded Journalist

Final Thoughts
Andy Piper – HomeCamp!
Michael R – Off the Grid?
Michael M – Going to Rain?

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Michael and Michael welcome back Effie Seiberg to the show this week. Given that the election is finally over, we’ve decided to take a look at the use of technology from the campaigns, websites, and the news networks. Social networks, Holograms, Maps, Location Based Services, Mashups, and iPhone Apps are all on the agenda. We even show you how to make your own Hologram! We also thank Andy for doing a quick 12Seconds video of the arrival of his Dogear Nation Swag!

Show Links

Political
Change.gov
iPhone application
Tax calculator

CNN board
Holographic interviews
How to do your own hologram

Kottke roundup
The Forbidden Zone

Magic wall
Google roundup
New York Times map

Swag!
Andy’s new Swag!

Final Thoughts
Michael M. – UNC Homecoming and Tuba Playing
Michael R. – 2008 Cool tech – Water bottle
Effie S. – 2012 Real Holograms by then

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Dogear-Nation episode 56
This week’s show is back to using PhoneTap since Skype was unavailable for Michael R., however Matt does a great job of cleaning up the audio. Our all listener linked show this week includes innovation of microbes that crap oil, ISP’s that sniff your email for ad placement, a different kinda of RoadRunner that has surpassed the Teraflop, and a unique way of describing your resume as a tag cloud! Check us out.

All Listener Tags this week!
Bill Sweeney
Oil 2.0
Cold Fusion article

Kiambogo
Watching While You Surf
NPR – Email Privacy
Pretty Good Privacy

Seemsartless
Supercomputing & the Dawning of Skynet
Supercomputing & the Dawning of Skynet
Ted Talk re: Birth of the Computer by George Dyson

Twitter Stream
Follow us on Twitter – twitter.com/michaelrowe01, twitter.com/carolinabigblue,
Wordle
Ted Talk re: Wordle & Johnathan Feinberg
Ted Talk re: Chris Jordan showing enormous numbers

Final Thoughts
Michael R — mixing up National and Dulles airports
Matt — sometimes a mixed up set of words is just a mixed up set of words
Michael M — blathering some fortune cookie quote about luck

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