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Michael and Michael welcome special guest Rob Smart to the show this week. Rob comes from IBM’s Hursley lab and was the developer of the Second Life Translation HUD back in 2006. While the rest of the world is talking about the olympics, the we focus on tech, tweets, and drinks this week. Our listener links this week focus on iPhone access to Virtual Worlds, Data, and Mobile Me. We look at the new xbat imbedded in Internet Explorer 7, and a quick look back at the summer of Web 2.0. We also unveil the new Dogear-Nation Hoodie! Just a reminder that we will not be recording a show next week and will be back on our recording schedule August 22nd.

iPhone Stuff
Second Life Communication via iPhone
Heidi go seek — synching digital life to iPhone
iPhone QR, Data Matrix, Aztec code reader

Windows Stuff
xbat — web browser plugins

Web 2.0 Stuff
Summer of web 2.0
Check us out on Twitter
Michael Rowe
Michael Martine
Rob Smart
Check out our blogs
Michael Rowe
Rob Smart

Josh Whedon
Dr. Horrible
Firefly
Drive

Beverages
Irn Bru and Irn Bru USA
Cheerwine

Final Thoughs
Michael R.
Rob Smart
Michael M.

Reminder — no show next weekend

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 63 - 08-08-08 [41:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: hoodie, internetexplorer, iphone, mobileme, swag, tweetstats, web2.0, windows, xbat

Michael and Michael welcome special guest Ian Hughes (AKA - ePredator). Ian is IBM’s metaverse Evangelist from the Hursley Lab. We spend time reviewing a bunch of open source and open platform virtual worlds. We also look at cross world integration with IBM and Linden Lab’s Open Grid Beta. Both Ian and Michael R. welcome listeners to come visit us at the Virtual Worlds’ Conference in LA and join Michael R. at GDC Austin. This week’s show was streamed live on Kyte.tv.

emetaverse 101
eightbar team
Unity 3D
Real Xtend
Open Croquet
Electric Sheep’s Webflock
Exit reality
Google’s Lively

emetaverse 201
Open Grid / ugotrade
Virtual Worlds LA 2008
Game Developer’s Conference - Austin

(duckboxxer) - Spherical Display

this week in spam
UK lottery - We Won!

final thought
Michael M - iphones in Japan
Ian - Rooparture in lego minifig style!
Michael R - Up to 5.57 by keeping vista off - rock solid!

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 62 - eMetaversology [40:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: eightbar, exitreality, gdc, iphone, lively, metaverse, opencroquet, opengrid, opensim, realxtend, secondlife, unity3d, weblock

This week Michael and Michael welcome Luis Suarez (an honorary Michael) to the show to talk about how he has freed himself from his inbox and moved almost entirely to social computing for communications. After a dip in the social web, we move on to Tablet Computing, will it really change our primary devices? Science shows us some history of presentations and a new take on Nova from PBS. Stop by http://dogearnation.com and provide us with your feedback and comments.

Social Computing
I freed myself from e-Mail’s grip - Luis Suarez
Ma.gnolia.com - Social Tagging
Thomas Vanderwal — Why Ma.gnolia is One of My Favorite Social Bookmarking Tools
University of Michigan Social Computing Degree
A New Approach to Exec Recruiting

Tablet Computing
We Want a Dead Simple Web Tablet
CherryPal PC
Cherry Pal PC has Juice

Science!
Nova Science Now
She blinded me with Science and Live
IBM Slides from 1975 presentation - Powerpoint Old school

Final Thoughts
Michael R — Automagically updating Apps on iPhone
“Michael” S. — Bolder and Keep it Simple
Michael M. — Dogear-Live on Kyte.tv

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 61 - Adding Email to Luis's Inbox [39:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: iphone, Ma.gnolia, science, socialcomputing, socialmedia, socialtagging, tabletcomputing

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

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 60 - Metavangelist Down [36:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: E3, Gaming, Gesture, GPS, iphone, Locationbasedservices, MAG, Volunteer, wii, WiiMotion, Windows7

Michael and Michael welcome Phaedra Boinodiris, from IBM’s Serious Games team, to the show. We are recording our first show with all the participants in the same room. We discuss games, gaming, and the future of, you guessed it … games and gaming. Oh yeah, and the iPhone 2.0 upgrade and 3G game out today.

Obligatory 3-D Internet Section
Lively by Google
SL / IBM intravirtual world teleport
Lego Universe
Virtual World timeline

Games for health
Wii Fit
Eyetoy
Humana — pedometers on kids… (like the nike+ipod?)
Bogost
Emsense

Dark knight — pain management - http://www.warnervideo.com/batmangothamknight/

Future of gaming
Neverwinter nights — be the puppetmaster!
Doom
Raph Koster — star wars galaxies
World of Warcraft
Lord of the Rings Online

iPhone 2.0 / 3G upgrade event
Problems with iPhone Activation

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 59 - Its all Games [43:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: crafting, Gaming, health, iphone, lotro, seriousgames, WoW

Michael and Michael welcome special guest Kirk Nelson. Before they begin celebrating the 4th of July, they guys talk about the Kindle. Both Kirk and Michael R. recently picked up Kindles and tell you all about the pluses and minuses from Amazon’s e-book reader. Michael M. decides to bring up other on-line book readers as a point of comparison. The 4th of July celebrations begin with a discussion of beer dispensing robots and a shout out to Robin Carey from Social Media Today.

Kindlemania
Kindle
Feedbooks
Audible
Full color e-paper

Online Book readers
Calameo
Zino Reader
IBM’s GIO 3.0

Forth of July Beer Robots
Beer Robot
The Beer Machine at Narita Airport, Japan
Kirin Beer Machine

Dogear-Nation References
IBM and Employee Centered Social Media
Robin Carey

This week in Spam!
We won the Irish Lottery!!

Final thoughts
Michael M - No iPhone upgrade for me!
Michael R - Network access causes Sound issues in Skype
Kirk N - HTC phones

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 58 - Kindle Rules [32:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: beer, ebooks, gio, gio3.0, iphone, kindle, robots, socialmedia, spam

With the guys fully back in form, we deside to dig back into our dogear archives for a tag from Jasmin Tragas on “Should Enterprise Apps be Sexy?”. Given our history of innovation, visualization and pleasing experiences, while our answer surprise you? Check out this week’s show to find out!

Tags:
Enterprise apps should be sexy / Jasmin Tragas — http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/12/10/enterprise-apps-can-and-should-be-sexy/

Operating Systems
Macworld redux — http://www.macworldencore.com/online/presentation.asp
Linux inside windows — http://www.andlinux.org/
iPhone to become direct MS Exchange clients — http://macwindows.com/news_iphone_exchangeclient.html
iPhone developer program — http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

Music systems
Pandora does classical music — http://www.pandora.com/
Netflix prize — http://www.netflixprize.com/
Netflix prize Wired article — http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_netflix

Obligatory 3D Internet
Circuit City — http://www.massively.com/2008/02/29/circuit-city-relaunches-in-second-life/
3D Internet clicks with BBC / Holly Stewart — http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/2008/03/uknews_internetstrategyclicksatbbc.html
Linden Labs introduces HTML in SL — http://digado.nl/linden-lab-introduces-html-in-sl.html
Vbusiness and the 3D Internet / Mikael Haglund — http://www.publ.hj.se/diva/abstract.xsql?dbid=1160
Reaching haptic controllers — http://www.reachin.se/

Final Thoughts
Michael M. –> go Tar Heels! Beat Dook!
Matt –> Open AIM — http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/aol-gets-it-right-with-open-aim-20-embraces-meebo-and-ebuddy/
Michael R. –> ROWE launch kit — http://www.culturerx.com/

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 43 - Sexy Enterprise Apps: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: apple, beta, circuitcity, iphone, Podcast, secondlife, Virtual Worlds, virtualization, website