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So… I’ve you’ve been following my tweets then you know that over the holiday’s I’ve been studying to write an iPhone app. My goal is for the first app to be a Dogear-Nation application. I would love to hear what you would like that App to be like. I’ve got a few ideas:
1) RSS reader of the Dogear-Nation RSS Feed
2) Allow you to listen to the audio stream without having to download it via your podcatcher
3) Allow you to click thru to the links we talk about while the show continues to stream (take that apple for not allowing us to multi task)
4) Other ideas?

I have planned on using a lot of the code that Andy put together for the Dogear-Nation Dashcode Widget, but since only 25% of our audience uses a Mac, many of you may not know about it. How many of our listeners use an iPhone? Do we need to make it a web app so that it can be on the Android?

I’d love to hear your thoughts?

As we begin a new year we’ve got no time for any look back (this week), way too many great tags from you our listeners. Also, Andy continues his holiday and will be joining us again next week. Next week we will talk about the tags that have stuck with us the most from 2009. But with CES going on we look at some cool new tech. Michael and Michael talk about Generation M’s impact on the enterprise (thanks to a great tag by billsweeney1 and rodent). We look at the best business model yet, and deal with the twitter nay-sayers. And thanks to ePredator we have to ask, has this augmented reality thing gone too far? Happy New Year!!!

What’s Cool
Michael R — AR Drone
Also AR Drone – listener tag wideawakewesley
Michael M — You Rock!

Augmented Reality
iphone in an iphone epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Google’s openness duckboxxer
CES kickoff by Ford’s President & CEO Alan Mulally, discussion on MyFord & Microsoft Sync

Social Networkin’
Snowmash 2.0 lx5
Facebookisation of the enterprise billsweeney1 rodney
Mother of all business models rickmans
TV scrobbling lx5
It’s 2010 and if you don’t embrace the web it shows you don’t care rickmans
Criticizing twitter heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Michael R — Roots are beautiful
Michael M — Trade Show? There’s an app for that

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The Michael’s end the year, while Andy is off partying (Happy Festivus, Andy!). The Obligatory 3-D Internet section is back, thanks to listener ePredator! There’s a great list of virtual worlds, with video samples, that we recommend anyone interested in getting into the 3D Internet check out. Andy provides us with a great link (perhaps this is his gift to all of us!) on playing Guitar Hero on your garage. For our old school listeners, check out the link on playing Dungeon and Dragons on a Microsoft Surface. Phil_hartman gives us a great visualization of the Browser Market! The Mac-A-Rooni section is back too…And as delusional iPhone users we thank Rickmans for a great tag.

What’s Cool
Michael M — Lame Government Encryption!
Michael R — Holiday Props to the Bell Ringers

Obligatory 3-D Internet
There’s a world for that – epredator
A view into virtual universes – epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Bright lights, Big City – lx5
Guitar Hero Garage – andypiper
Surface Dungeons and Dragons – wideawakewesley
sho.rt – billsweeney1
Browser marketshare – phil_hartman
Parallax effect – wideawakewesley

Mac-a-rooni
iPhone users are delusional – rickmans
Gesture based security or thumper for your iPhone – lx5

Social Networkin’
Unbelievable 10 #FB stories of the year rickmans

Final Thoughts
Michael R – BMW Makes PCs – Badly
Michael M – Geek Holiday Gifts Guide

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:28 — 8.7MB)

Andy and the Michaels can tell the holidays are here… our tech-no-tronic section is overflowing with excellent tech thanks to our listeners (duckboxxer, rickmans, bradicle, philhartman, and billsweeney1). It appears that the 3D internet must be fading back into 2D, due to all the very cool augmented reality capabilities being brought to phones, so we have gotten the message from you, our listeners, and have left the Obligatory section as optional.

Our words of the day are (Andy) – Flible, (Michael M.) – None- he’s saving up, and (Michael R.) – Is.

What’s Cool
Andy — Raffle it!
Michael R — Metallica pussy cats
Michael M — Airlock

Obligatory 3-D Internet
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Tech-no-tronic
Going to bing? – duckboxxer
Facebook turning its square into a triangle – rickmans
Eye-fi / google deal – bradicle
True random numbers – philhartman
100k words per american per day – rickmans
Kindling competition – billsweeney1

Social Networkin’
Whose social network is stronger – Simon Cowell or everyone else? – rickmans
BBC Mashup shows – jtonline
Twitter demographics – jtonline
Twittering bed of the newly wed – wideawakewesley

Final thoughts
Andy — iPhone vs girlfriend
Michael R — Clash of the Titans
Michael M — Amazon Innovates again

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Hey, Hey, Hey, What’s Happening? Raj, Rerun, and Dwayne are all back this episode for some good old fashion fun. After meeting up at our favorite lunch time place, the 3D Internet, we venture over to a strange and wonderful tech-no-tronic world full of scalability and youtube. Ultimately Dwayne asks, What’s Happening? and we end up thinking some Final Thoughts. Thanks for all the great tags from – rickmans, epredator, blebs, wideawakewesley, jtonline, heidigoseek, and lx5

Please note, we are aware of the problem with our iTunes feed and have been trying to get it fixed. You can still subscribe and will get the current episode even if the iTunes store shows our last episode being in August.

What’s Cool
Andy — Microsoft surface
Michael R — Smarter than a Cat
Michael M — SAP’s Augmented Reality

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Stick’em in your Eyes – radio waves power contact lens — rickmans Thanks for this one
N-Dubz augmented reality — epredator
Second Life still around? — bluebus

Tech-no-tronic
Holy See — wideawakewesley
Breaking things is not hard to do — Jtonline
1000 users on a sim — bonus link
Youtube captions — heidigoseek
21 heros of Data Visualization– lx5

Social Networkin’
What’s Happening?

Final thoughts
Andy — Google — chromium OS, captioning in YouTube, google image swirl, site hierachies google blog — location tagging blog post
Michael R — TomTom for iPhone
Michael M — AM Radio

Bonus Links
Izzy

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:16 — 7.7MB)