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This weeks musical interludes are brought to you by Lord of The Rings Online and the Zune. Michael R. gives his perspectives from the Game Developer’s Conference, while Michael M. and Matt S. admire Luis Suarez’s announcement of becoming email free. Free your inbox and get some Swag from Dogear-Nation’s new Coffee Mugs.Dogear-Nation Coffee Mugs –http://www.dogearnation.com/2008/02/22/added-how-to-tag/Games and Mind Control:GDC — http://www.gdconf.com/Emotiv — http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080220005408&newsLang=enComputers match human brains — http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/computers-to-match-human-brains-by-2030-782978.htmlThe Data Center of the Future3D Data Center — http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/IBMs-Labs-3D-Data-Center/EntertainmentNanoscope — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqc4kp5CHKUMikael Haglund –> Zune videoshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKIDdIaFyE&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIk4qTKmKzEProject Gizmo — http://www.gizmoproject.com/Luis Suarez — http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/discuss/2008/chq_lifewithoutemail_022008.htmlODW Next — http://w3.tap.ibm.com/myTAP/offering/viewoffering.wss?offeringId=OFF50161Obligatory 3D Internet SectionBrian Olore — http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/bad_avatar.phpVAT in SL — http://secondlife.com/corporate/vat.phpPortal Song in LOTRO — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFIWagOkGMStairway to Heaven — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3PwQ26eRo

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 41 - Mind, Body, and Computer [27:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: 3dinternet, accessibility, email, emotiv, gdc, lotusnotes, Machinima, music, Podcast, secondlife, vat

Michael, Michael, and Matthew discuss tons of conferences and cool videos. LotusSphere, Mac World, and Machinima. It’s all here -MacWorld 2008How does Steve top the iPhone? — http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/01/14/macworld-2008-how-can-steve-jobs-top-the-iphone/IBM Commercial Buzzword Bingo — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAKxJbcec8USteve Jobs Keynote in 60 seconds — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz1-cPx0cIkMacBook Air ad — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkMMQRKqB0&NR=1LotusSphere 2008IBM LotusSphere — http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2008/Work-Life BalancingSleepless Badge of Honor — http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18155047Economic pressures — http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=sua&q=longer+hours+two+income+family+cost+of+living+standard+of+living+debt+credit&btnG=SearchHP marketing campaign on happiness — http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/hp-and-i-team-up-to-make-the-uk-happy-at-work/Obligatory 3D Internet interludeSL Economy posts solid growth in 4q2007 — http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/01/17/second-life-economy-posts-solid-growth-in-q4/Visualizing Electronic Health Records — http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan08/5854Boris in Wonderland show — http://w3.webahead.ibm.com/medialibrary/media_view?id=16241&back=search&backTo=%2Fmedialibrary%2Fsearch%3Fqt%3Daires%26narrow_filter%3Dauthor%26displayMediaSet%3D1Listener LinksMichael Haglund –Noraj Cue — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ0xi7i28tQMixed Reality in the House of Sweden — http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=5434292&version=1&locale=EN-USFinal ThoughtsMichael M: Does my avatar have greater productivity if I don’t log in for at least 8 hours so he gets enough rest?Matt: The backend database is the big thing.Michael R: — Big AcquisitionsSun acquires mySQL — http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2596

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 36 - Mac World Expo - Not Really: Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: economics, healthcare, lotussphere, Machinima, macworldexpo, mysql, Podcast, secondlife, sun, sweden, Virtual Worlds, visualization, worklife

Michael Rowe and Matt Simpson take some time to wrap up the year with special pre-recorded sections from Michael Martine, who missed his first EVER episode of Dogear-Nation. The guys list their top innovations and wish lists for 2007, and Predictions for 2008.Fun discussions:Simpsonizer - http://www.simpsonizeme.com/Top 3 Innovations:Michael Rowe - Green Datacenters - Monitoring and Visualization by Michael Osias at IBM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j65RkMS9EGYiClone - Favorite tool for creating machinima - http://www.reallusion.comLOTR Online - Great visual game, good game play, familure setting - http://www.lotro.com/Matt Simpson - The New Dawn of Solar - http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/green/item_59.htmlWish List Items:Matt Simpson -Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 HD - http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/pioneer-kuro-pdp-5080/4505-6482_7-32476901.html?tag=pop Bose® Lifestyle® 35 DVD home entertainment system - http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=ls35_dvd_indexUltrasone Edition 9 - http://www.headphonenews.com/2006/10/08/ultrasone-edition-9-the-best-headphones-in-the-world/Michael Martine -Rock band — http://www.rockband.com/A squeezebox — http://www.slimdevices.com/A delorean — http://www.delorean.com/Tops for Next year:Michael Rowe - 2008 will be the year that VW become “real”2008 will be the year that the iPhone becomes valuable and usable2008 will be the year that Dogear-Nation gets better audio toolsFinal Thoughts:Michael Rowe - Never “EVER” leave it to your buddies to edit your voiceMatt Simpson - Stay Tuned for MichaelMichael Martine - Looking forward to 2008 of fun with Dogear-Nation and Check out Sports Sync Radio http://www.sportsyncradio.com/

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 33 - Where are you Michael?: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: Gaming, Green, Machinima, Podcast, Solar Power, TV, Virtual Worlds, Year-End