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This week Andy and Michael begin the show and evidently can’t count, next week is episode 144. We also try our straight blast thru format of listener tags again this week. Tell us what you think? Do you like this format, or are separate and unique sections the way we should go. We like to experiment! And don’t forget to rate us on iTunes, tell your friends, drop us an email at dogearnation@gmail.com

What’s Cool
Andy – DC Interview
Michael R – Comdex goes Virtual

Listener Tags
Mind Crime! – epredator
Do Avatar’s Change the Way we Think – epredator
Companies are using more online communities- rawnshah
Management thru collaboration – rawnshah
Stonehenge Comes Alive – lx5
BBC Domesday book – BONUS TAG
Youtube allows HTML5 – lx5
New SecondLife Viewer allows for Shared Media – MattSimpson

Quick Hits
Google Liquid Galaxy – lx5, epredator
Are virtual worlds over – uncommonman, epredator
Infectious cool – carolinabigblue
COBOL takes on Ruby on Rails, with COGS! – uncommonman

Final Thoughts
Andy – Greatest Lightsaber Fight you’ll Ever See
Michael R – Speaking about Gaming and Developer Teams

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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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Andy and Michael M hold down the fort on a wide range of listener tags — starting (and arcing back at the end) with Google Buzz. Mobile Social Networking, Gamification of business (hmm… where have we heard that before?), and that innovation really takes place in the social area between corporations. Michael shares a couple of interesting visualizations and Andy gives some pointers to creating an out-of-the-box Boxee setup.

We’re holding off on a full MacWorld report pending Michael R’s return.

What’s Cool

Andy — Google Buzz
Michael R — going to hear Leo, Photoshop classes and more at MacWorld 2K10, MacWorld not quite the same w/o Apple
Michael M — Animator vs Animation

Obligatory 3-D Internet

Flicker founder’s new game: Glitch lx5
Game Neverending

Lego 3 year deal with Unity Technologies epredator

Tech-no-tronic
chrome canopy fractal visualization z303

vanity barcodes heidigoseek

#Musicblogocide2k10
rickmans

Social Networkin’

cloud, multi-touch, mobile, agile to have big impacts in 2010 allerhed

IBM Global Innovation Outlook

“gamification”, mobile social networking, more predictions from Global Human Capital Journal epredator

Final thoughts

Andy — out of the box boxee
Michael M — inudge via Phil Hartman

Announcements
http://oggcamp.org
OggCamp is a free software / free culture unconference organised by the presenters of the Ubuntu UK Podcast and Linux Outlaws. This year’s OggCamp will take place at The Black-E in Liverpool on the 1st and 2nd of May.

UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities is organizing the inaugural Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (C.H.A.T.) Festival (http://www.chatfestival2010.com ) next week from February 16-20 on UNC’s campus. The festival will seek to explore the impact of technology on the arts and humanities, including the evolution of “how we learn, think, know, teach and express ourselves both as individuals and as communities”.

Mac-a-rooni
while we didn’t get to these during the show, we found them intriguing…
iPhone as IE6 wideawakewesley

make your own iPad out of paper heidigoseek

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With a full complement of hosts, our friend Matt Simpson from Sweettt.com joins us to review the news of the week, and we comment on the big topics from last year. Unlike some of our competitors, this podcast is unbreakable! (ooops… did I just say that live on air?)

What’s Cool
Matt — photo of the day and CoolIris
Andy — a different take on Tetris
Michael R — oldtech new again
Michael M — drake equation

Obligatory 3-D Internet
100 virtual tours (epredator)
playing in virtual worlds (epredator)
AR helping mechanics (wideawakewesley)
LEGO Universe (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Reigniting the patent discussion (lx5 / ragtag_2)
Unbreakable phone breaks (billsweeney1) – also on Failblog (andyp)
blessed blackberry (lx5)
third and the seventh art & architecture (z303 /epredator)

Mac-a-rooni
This slate intentionally left blank

Social Networkin’
Monetizing Twitter on a personal level (billsweeney1)
Privacy? No Problem at Facebook! (heidigoseek)
map-a-rooni google to upgrade billboards in street view (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts / best of 2009
Michael R — augmented reality really coming to the surface
Andy — location based internet – sharing location
Matt — the Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
Michael M — – social computing / games driving more collaboration example: www.waze.com

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Andy, Michael and Michael are together again this week and decide that the obligatory 3-D Internet section didn’t have any content this week, so we let it slide. Is it still obligatory? Come post comments on the blog and let us know…Eroding your electronic brand… Printing a new kidney… More augmented reality… and a ton of news links from Andy… All this and more on this week’s Dogear-Nation!

Thank you for all your tags this week. And if you can figure out the video game that Michael R talked about during the Tech-no-tronic section…comment on this week’s show.

What’s Cool
Andy — Bobba Bar
Michael R — You’ve been Googled!
Michael M — I see you!!

Tech-no-tronic
Dual screen laptop! – duckboxxer
Branded tablets – uncommonman
Printing money by printing organs – epredator
Arcade expressionism – heidigoseek
Web 2.0 expo – mobthink

Social Networkin’
AR Twitter location – wideawakewesley
More AR Twitter location – heidigoseek
Waze crowdsourcing game
Backfiring Rewards – Rickmans
Social Media – Rickmans
Management access to social media – Rickmans
Tired of Waving yet? – lx5
Is super-cali-frag-a-twitter search – lx5

Final thoughts
Andy — superfast news roundup

• Google DNS
• Google Dictionary
• Bing Crash
• YouTube 1080p and Feather
• LG Watch phone
• SquareUp – NB correction to what Andy said in the show, this is a new venture from Jack Dorsey from Twitter, not Biz Stone.
• Waze
• Minimalist Google search page
• translated Google search

Michael R — What’s TWiT worth to you?
Michael M — Lego Rock Band

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