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We welcome Chris Hazard – CEO of Hazardous Software to the show this week. Chris is developing a great new time-travel game that you can check out at his YouTube Channel. We get insight into time travel and the various paradoxes that you face… Along with your Tags. Don’t forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, or via the links on our blog at http://dogearnation.com.

Thanks to all who tagged this week, sorry we couldn’t get to all of your tags. Gypsychk, cjhazard, epredator, kiambogo, archatechoem, crwmn, lx5, jtonline, duckboxxer, richmans, kabren, kkganesan, and wideawakewesley.

What’s Cool
Andy — Moovie Mania and Mooseum
Michael R — Berlin wall grafitti animation
Michael M — Portable Tailgate (via gypsychk)
Chris — Braid – The Game (cjhazard)

Obligatory 3-D Internet
GI Joe Rise of Cobra (epredator)
New Platform-Dubit (epredator)
Economist life in virtual reality after all (kiambogo)

Tech-no-tronic
Microsoft FAST search (archatechoem)
Synch all your devices (crwmn, lx5)
Techno-culutural snobbery (gypsychk)
New Barcodes (jtonline)

Mac-a-rooni
I quit – the iPhone (duckboxxer)
Do You See the new Invisible iPhone (jtonline)
Is Apple Big Brother (rickmans)
Apple Is Growing Rotten (kabren, Kkganesan)

Final thoughts
Andy — Alien – Prequel
Michael R — Guitar rock tour
Michael M — Facebook, Who you know, Twitter, What you know
Chris — Retrograde the Game

Find Chris at
Achron Game
NC State

Wanted to get to…
Social Networkin’
Spam filter for twitter (duckboxxer)
Government Twitter Guidelines (kevinaires)
Using twitter during conferences (rickmans)
Viral Wedding Video (wideawakewesley)

Bonus Links
Aura

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Andy, Michael, and Michael are back for 2009! In our first episode of the year, we look at some great videos (WoW and Mac vs. PC), make up trends from only two data points, Apple Rumors abound, Walmart is visualized, and our former guest Michael Ackerbauer helps us kill ideas.

We are looking forward to seeing more of your tags this year, so don’t forget to tag with “Dogear-Nation”. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter at:
Andy – http://twitter.com/andypiper
Michael M – http://twitter.com/carolinabigblue
Michael R – http://twitter.com/michaelrowe01
Dogear Nation – http://twitter.com/dogearnation

Show Links

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Craft of War
(bonus link – The future of Blind)
Princeton departs from SL
epredator’s epredictions
Sim on demand

Mac-a-rooni
Mac vs PC
Snow Leopard screenshots
Apple’s last Macworld

The Future of UI is now
New form factor for iPod touch
Rethink your desktop with Bumptop
The rise of Social Media in the UK (updated with new / working URL)

gaming interlude
Wii Music
The Force Unleashed

Data visualization
Walmart across America
OMG – WTF spectrum

Random stuff
Rating websites!
(bonus link – Parental Guidance advised)
SSL cert hack
How to kill an idea
Merry Little Christmas

Final Thoughts
Michael R – Play Auditorium
Andy P – Podcast Studio Mixer and Moved site to Blubrry PowerPress, let us know if you see any problems
Michael M – Waiting for new Apple toys after Mac World Expo (Apple TV announcement?)

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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=en
Computers match human brains — http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/computers-to-match-human-brains-by-2030-782978.html

The Data Center of the Future
3D Data Center — http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/IBMs-Labs-3D-Data-Center/

Entertainment
Nanoscope — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqc4kp5CHKU
Mikael Haglund –>
Zune videoshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKIDdIaFyE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIk4qTKmKzE
Project Gizmo — http://www.gizmoproject.com/
Luis Suarez — http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/discuss/2008/chq_lifewithoutemail_022008.html
ODW Next — http://w3.tap.ibm.com/myTAP/offering/viewoffering.wss?offeringId=OFF50161

Obligatory 3D Internet Section
Brian Olore — http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/bad_avatar.phpVAT in SL — http://secondlife.com/corporate/vat.php
Portal Song in LOTRO — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFIWagOkGM
Stairway to Heaven — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3PwQ26eRo

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Michael, Michael, and Matthew discuss tons of conferences and cool videos. LotusSphere, Mac World, and Machinima. It’s all here -

MacWorld 2008
How 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=nAKxJbcec8U
Steve Jobs Keynote in 60 seconds — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz1-cPx0cIk
MacBook Air ad — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkMMQRKqB0&NR=1

LotusSphere 2008
IBM LotusSphere — http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2008/

Work-Life Balancing
Sleepless Badge of Honor — http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18155047
Economic 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=Search
HP marketing campaign on happiness — http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/hp-and-i-team-up-to-make-the-uk-happy-at-work/

Obligatory 3D Internet interlude
SL 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/jan08/5854
Boris in Wonderland show — http://w3.webahead.ibm.com/medialibrary/media_view?id=16241&back=search&backTo=%2Fmedialibrary%2Fsearch%3Fqt%3Daires%26narrow_filter%3Dauthor%26displayMediaSet%3D1

Listener Links
Michael Haglund –Noraj Cue — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ0xi7i28tQ
Mixed Reality in the House of Sweden — http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=5434292&version=1&locale=EN-US

Final Thoughts
Michael 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 Acquisitions Sun acquires mySQL — http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2596

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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=j65RkMS9EGY
iClone – Favorite tool for creating machinima – http://www.reallusion.com
LOTR 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.html

Wish 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_index
Ultrasone 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 usable
2008 will be the year that Dogear-Nation gets better audio tools

Final Thoughts:
Michael Rowe – Never “EVER” leave it to your buddies to edit your voice
Matt Simpson – Stay Tuned for Michael
Michael Martine – Looking forward to 2008 of fun with Dogear-Nation and Check out Sports Sync Radio http://www.sportsyncradio.com/

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