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Michael and Michael welcome our new “official” co-host – Andy Piper, and then end up having to move the recording time this week to way too late in the evening. So hopefully Andy will be joining us next week. This week’s show has a great set of listener tags. We look at the revival of Second Life (really??), new technology in Forterra, a new Virtual World in Australia, out of body experiences in Sweden, and a finish off our Obligatory 3D internet section with a really big beer! As we move over to the Social Networking section, Duckboxxer helps us see ads on Twitter, while Twitter turns down a rumored $500m deal from Facebook, we learn what we don’t know about language immersion from cynicalicious while Pownce gets pwned when they are purchased by Six Apart, and we resolve with the real value of the Re-Tweet. Our Mac-a-rooni section begins with Vista users begging Microsoft not to make Windows 7 easy to user over the expense of power and functionality, Kevinaires sends us a link to a cool iPhone holder, and Matt Goerning taking on Apple users and Steve Jobs.

Show Links
Obligatory 3D Internet
Second Life’s Second Wind?
Forterra & IBM Unified Communications — (andypiperuk)
Foreterra & Lotus — (epredator)
Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop
body swapping — (twitterati)
Big Ad!

Social Networking
tweeterize — (duckboxxer)
tweeterize
Twitter tweets “thanks, but no thanks” to Facebook
iKnow — (Cynicalicious)
Pownce pwned
RT looking for a kidney transplant

Mac-a-rooni
Don’t make Windows7 too mac-like
Just mobile xtand — (kevinaires)
Mapple!

Final Thoughts
Michael M — Amazon iPhone app
Michael R — Customer Service is not dead

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Andy Piper joins us, back from the Web 2.0 conference, with insights and memories from Berlin. Our listeners have been busy tagging, so we have a great show with information on Electricity, CyberTwins (like “Wonder Twins, but different”), Name Tags, and more. We also include another in our series of interviews from the Virtual Worlds Conference with Justin Bovington from Rivers Run Red.

Grand Ol’ Berlin
Web 2.0 talks on Slideshare
Leisa Reichelt: Usability
Stowe Boyd: Flow
Tom Raftery: Electricity 2.0 (with video available here)
Tim O’Reilly: Web Meets World
SoundCloud
Graze

Obligatory 3D Internet 
Woman jailed for killing her virtual husband
How to be good at Maple Story
Star Wars Old Republic
My CyberTwin (via heidigoseek)
Eliza
Turing test

Social Networking
Map of Network worlds (via Matt Simpson)
Qwitter
Twitter rules and etiquette
Picasa Nametags (via Brian O’Donovan / bod)
Like.com
 
Mac-a-rooni  
Ten commandments of the iPhone 
Tao of the Mac
 
Final Thoughts  
Andy — enjoyed Web 2.0
Michael R — they make Star Wars Games?!
Michael M — Complaint generator

Virtual Worlds Interview
Justin Bovington – Rivers Run Red

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A little while ago… actually… wow… nearly a year ago… I hacked up a little Mac Dashboard widget for the podcast. It was my first experience with Dashcode.

Since I’m cleaning and enhancing the site I thought I’d refresh the widget, and host it here on the blog.

I’ll be adding a page of tools, icons, badges and goodies soon, and the widget will eventually live there. For now, you can go ahead and download it directly here. It’s for Mac OS X 10.4.3 and upwards only. If you’ve got the old version installed then this one should offer to replace the existing version.

So what’s the point of the widget? Well, if you don’t subscribe to our podcast feed, or you just want to be able to pull up the Dashboard and get a list of the episodes and choose one to play, you can do so using the widget. By the way, you don’t have to leave the Dashboard open while the episode plays, you can just start it playing and go back to whatever you were doing before. The widget also has a quick link to the website in case you ever forget the URL

Michael, Michael, and Matt consider security around new tools and toys written by “one Guy”, movies, Macs, and more. While sipping on a nice big glass of Sweet Tea, Michael and Michael try not to clear their throats too many times, while Matt keeps us under control.

3D Internet obligatory
u n y p e . c o m — http://unype.com/
Attack of the 50ft Woman – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051380/
3pointD.com » Blog Archive » Paul Verhoeven to Hold Auditions in Second Life – http://www.tien.tv/web/show/id=1040949/
iClone and CrazyTalk – http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/
ABC News: IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes – http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3081680
RayTracing – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing
Cyber 205 Supercomputer- http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/super-users-view.html

Sametime – 7.5.1 Blue – http://w3.tap.ibm.com/myTAP/offering/viewoffering.wss?offeringId=OFF50635&linkId=offering.OFF50635
TAP – Technology Adoption Program – http://w3.tap.ibm.com
Bluepages – Corporate Facebook – http://w3.bluepages.ibm.com

Web 11.0
Joost – Offers for Betas – http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/page/matthew_simpson@us.ibm.com?entry=joost
Web 2.0 by David Barnes presentation – http://show.zoho.com/public/daivdbarnes/biztech-ppt
IBM Web 2.0 Summit Video Blog – http://w3.webahead.ibm.com/medialibrary/media_set_view?id=2858

Mac@IBM
Lotus Mobile Connect Technology Adoption Program – http://ausgsa.ibm.com/projects/l/lmctap/macOSdev.html
ActiveSync 4.0 and 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide – http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/faqs/activesync/tshoot-as4x.htm
Sametime 7.5.1 Mac – http://sametime.tap.ibm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=3&id=8&Itemid=

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