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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 enjoy a non-controversial show, with Michael R not able to make the record. While podcasts enable you to build your own radio station, and only find things you agree with, both Michael and Andy agree that it makes you smarter (thank you new tagger rabiakiva). We also get to hear Andy laugh over mouse overs on the twategy site, and then we hear him gush over the wonderfulness of Twitter Lists. He loves it so much he’s created one list. (While editing the show, Michael R. does learn about Google Reader bundles, and agrees this is cool).

What’s Cool
Andy — Dr. Horrible Update
Michael R — It’s a man, made from gir-ders! / flame on!
Michael M — basketball season!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Linden’s behind the firewall product & apps marketplace – epredator
Babel fish augmented reality glasses – epredator
Break on through to the other side – epredator
Augmented Reality for Hursley

Social Networkin’
Listening to podcasts make you smarter – rabiakiva
Bespoke tweets for the elite – uncommonman
Who moved my blackberry
Twitter lists show social media misunderstandings – heidigoseek
Twitter lists illustrated
Jobs’ 5 presentation secrets – rickmans
Has Google gone to the dark side – rickmans

Google privacy dashboard explained – lx5

Final thoughts
Andy — pondering when the presentation secrets of Michael M…
Michael M — unique identifiers on election ballots

#Fail
Andy can’t believe that the Michaels forgot to mention Sky-net in our discussion of robots on last week’s show.

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The Michaels enjoy a great set of listener tags. Andy has to take customer calls, and is unable to join us this week. We take this time with Andy away, to have a few shameless self promotions and tell you what we’ve been unto in our day jobs lately. Michael M. tries to infect the world with his coughs as he is in the scary eastern parts of Tennessee, but since it all via skype you are all safe — Happy Halloween.

Thank you to all the listeners who make this show possible each week with your tags – epredator, wideawakewesley, lunamoth, billsweeney1, ragtag_2, rickmans and lx5

What’s Cool
Michael M – Shameless Self Promotion
Michael R – Shameless Self Promotion

3D Internet
Future of the Enterprise: Special Event Live from San Francisco – epredator
Hands on with Acer’s 3D laptop – wideawakewesley
The Value of Virtual Worlds – epredator

Tech-No-tronic
Which is easier to understand: Google Wave or Cardiothoracic Surgery? – lunamoth
Beyond the Kindle: Color, Video E-Paper Devices Are Just Around the Corner – billsweeney1
Robots Tiptoe toward terminator – billsweeney1
Amazon goes Window shopping – michaelrowe01
CoolPics, CoolLens, CoolIris- Whatever!
Photo editor online – Pixlr.com edit image – ragtag_2
Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe – rickmans

Social Netorkin’
Peace on Facebook – rickmans
D&D on Google Wave – michaelrowe01
Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists – rickmans
In Authoritarian Regimes, Social Media Doesn’t Only Help Social Activists – rickmans
Privacy is dead and social media hold smoking gun – rickmans
Facebook ‘memorialises’ profiles – wideawakewesley
Uni adds Twitter to the curriculum – rickmans
Reading the Telegraph costs the British economy £1.38bn – rickmans

Da Governator
Track where US gov bailout trillions went with augmented reality mobile app – wideawakewesley
Net set for ‘language shake-up’ – lx5

Final Thoughts
Michael R – Alternative Mac software – AlternativeTo.net
Michael M – Real Life iPhone Costumes Put Your Crappy Halloween Outfit to Shame and Smart Phone Etiquette

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We must be getting closer to Halloween, since we have death and undead on our minds. In our 3-D Internet section, we have people living out their lives in robotic forms. In our Tech-no-tronic section, we have the ability to will our Twitter account to someone after we die (could this end up causing a bit of Ghost Tweeting?). In our Win-A-Rooni section, we have Microsoft Windows’ attempt at rebirth with Windows 7 and house parties. And finally, in our Social Networking section, ma.gnolia comes back from the dead with a new invite-only social bookmarking tool. I think it’s time to play with the undead and head over to World of Warcraft!

What’s Cool
Andy — Lego t-shirt
Michael R — Heads up GPS on iPhone
Michael M — Augmented Reality and Bionic Eye, The future mashups are bleeding into the 3-D Internet.

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Linden Speaks at Metanomics Show (epredator)
Linden Lab says SecondLife is Huge! (kevinaires)
Surrogates (wideawakewesley)
Business users who don’t get it — doomed to failure (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Living will for your digital assets (lx5)
Fitbit launched (kevinaires)

Win-a-rooni
Host your own Windows 7 House Party! (lx5)
In da House (uncommonman)
Dogear-Nation’s Windows 7 House Party
Zune OLED screen outshines iPod and Video

Social Networkin’
Magnolia’s ba-ack! – Sorta (heidigoseek)
Visualization for local twitter trends (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts
Andy — Apture (rucsb) Checking Facebook during a burglary and Poken for Business
Michael R — Evidently not playing enough WoW
Michael M — Honda’s Segway-like Unicycle (via kevinaires)

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Michael Rowe gives a quick rundown of Virtual Worlds 2007 conference. With about 1,200 attendees this was THE conference to be at this past week around virtual Worlds. Almost all the big name virtual world vendors and tool providers had booths, while three tracks kept attendees asking and answering questions around the metaverse.

Virtual worlds 2007 – http://www.virtualworlds2007.com/
poser 7 – http://www.e-frontier.com/go/poser
iClone – http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/
IBM and Linden Lab announcement – http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22428.wss
IBM Leads VW Standards – http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/10/11/ibm-virtual-worlds-and-standards-a-roundup/
My Pictures of Vendor Floor – http://web.mac.com/michaelrowe01/Site/Random_Thoughts/Entries/2007/10/14_Virtual_Worlds_%E2%80%9807.html
There.com – http://www.there.com/
Vivox – http://www.vivox.com/
Electric Sheep – http://www.electricsheepcompany.com/
Sheep is working with CSI – http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/electric-sheep-.html
Forterra – http://www.forterrainc.com/
Multiverse – http://www.multiverse.net/
Activeworlds – http://www.activeworlds.com/
Tony O’Driscol – http://wadatripp.wordpress.com/
Ian Hughes – Speaking at Virtual Worlds Forum – http://virtualworldsforum.com/conference-programme/

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