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Andy and the Michaels can tell the holidays are here… our tech-no-tronic section is overflowing with excellent tech thanks to our listeners (duckboxxer, rickmans, bradicle, philhartman, and billsweeney1). It appears that the 3D internet must be fading back into 2D, due to all the very cool augmented reality capabilities being brought to phones, so we have gotten the message from you, our listeners, and have left the Obligatory section as optional.

Our words of the day are (Andy) – Flible, (Michael M.) – None- he’s saving up, and (Michael R.) – Is.

What’s Cool
Andy — Raffle it!
Michael R — Metallica pussy cats
Michael M — Airlock

Obligatory 3-D Internet
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Tech-no-tronic
Going to bing? – duckboxxer
Facebook turning its square into a triangle – rickmans
Eye-fi / google deal – bradicle
True random numbers – philhartman
100k words per american per day – rickmans
Kindling competition – billsweeney1

Social Networkin’
Whose social network is stronger – Simon Cowell or everyone else? – rickmans
BBC Mashup shows – jtonline
Twitter demographics – jtonline
Twittering bed of the newly wed – wideawakewesley

Final thoughts
Andy — iPhone vs girlfriend
Michael R — Clash of the Titans
Michael M — Amazon Innovates again

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We decided to balance out the show today in honor of the US celebration of the 4th of July. @WideAwakeWesley joins us on the show this week, helping us with a dose of non-Virtual World and non-Apple Fanboy credibility. Our topics include some great gaming mashups about Michael Jackson, some overly mashed-up cars with drunk driving in Grand Theft Auto, getting mashed and trapped into a platform based on ecosystem lock-in, great music mashups via Spotify (perfectly legal – just not available in the US) and getting your Twitter account mashed into a pulp via too many Tweets per hour. Happy Independence week to all our listeners!! Keep on tagging!

What’s Cool
Andy — RFID-enabled Dogear Nation mug (buy your own non-RFID-enabled mug in the store!)
Michael R — First person shooter disease
Wesley — Michael Jackson / Rag Doll Kung Fu mashup
Michael M — Everybody needs a site to love!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
China bans gold farming (epredator)
Studying effects of alcohol in virtual reality (lx5)
Glasgow Caledonian University to teach creation of virual worlds (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
FireFox 3.5 — with even more .5 than before! (wideawakewesley)
The Pirate Bay has been boarded by Global Gaming Factory (wideawakewesley)
What exactly has been sold by The Pirate Bay? (uncommonman)
Computer, translate. (gypsychk)
Upsidedown remotes for those down under (lx5)
Google without the affiliate links (lx5)

Final thoughts
Andy — UK heat tweets
Michael R — iPhone programming class from Stanford (michaelrowe01)
Wesley — See Spotify run (wideawakewesley)
Michael M — Arcade Lego Videos and
So, how fast can you tweet? (via emily)

… and the stuff we didn’t quite get to… (thanks for the tags, great stories!)

Social Networkin’
RIM analysis (uncommonman)
Top CEOs not connecting via social media (heidigoseek)
Social media as “business operating system” (duckboxxer)
Checking up on job applicants (heidigoseek)

Bonus links
Spotify iphone video
Photos of kludges that work, sort of… (uncommonman)
Digital art creation (epredator)
Burning Man & real time search (wideawakewesley)

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Michael R. takes on the whole concept of Social Networking in this gigantic rat hole of his own making, while Andy and Michael M. bring LotusLive to the forefront of all social networking — in the world!! With a heavy dose of virtual trade shows and some serious Microsoft Surface tension, this show has it all.

Show Notes

What’s Cool
Andy – Twestival
Michael R – Durham Tweet Up WIth Elsua and more!
Michael M – Snow in Chapel Hill – Big Red Sled!

Obligatory 3D Internet
Fractal tree generator — (mattsimpson)
Sony Electronics virtual trade show — (epredator)
Lotus Sametime 3D without the glasses — (epredator)

Social Networking
It’s ALIVE!!! Lotus Live — (epredator)
Zooming editor for stunning presentations — (jtonline)
Tweetgrid — (adreich)
Tweetdeck Adding columns of searches

Cool tech
MS Surface at Sheraton — (sweettt)
TechFluff.tv — (jtonline)
Doll out of living cells. Great balls of collagen. — (epredator)
BugLabs — If you mashup a bug, does it squish? — (graham_alton)

Final thoughts
Michael M — The Inaugural Moment (Fallout 3 version of Inauguration) — (epredator)
Michael R — Don’t sign up for things that consume your entire life? Shows / books, more.
Andy — Unveiled the mashup for twtrctr — Shameless Plug

Bonus links
Artificial life in Second Life (Mar 2007)
Engage expo

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Michael and Michael welcome back Effie Seiberg to the show this week. Given that the election is finally over, we’ve decided to take a look at the use of technology from the campaigns, websites, and the news networks. Social networks, Holograms, Maps, Location Based Services, Mashups, and iPhone Apps are all on the agenda. We even show you how to make your own Hologram! We also thank Andy for doing a quick 12Seconds video of the arrival of his Dogear Nation Swag!

Show Links

Political
Change.gov
iPhone application
Tax calculator

CNN board
Holographic interviews
How to do your own hologram

Kottke roundup
The Forbidden Zone

Magic wall
Google roundup
New York Times map

Swag!
Andy’s new Swag!

Final Thoughts
Michael M. – UNC Homecoming and Tuba Playing
Michael R. – 2008 Cool tech – Water bottle
Effie S. – 2012 Real Holograms by then

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Michael Martine and Michael Rowe welcome Dave Kamalsky IBM’s Virtual Universe Community’s former Guild Master this week. Michael and Dave were together in beautiful Dublin, Ireland, while Michael Martine joins from North Carolina. In honor of the misty weather in Dublin, and thanks to Mikael Haglund’s wonder tags, we review multi-media and internet umbrellas. The guys also ask the question about personal space and privacy, and how Chinese MMO laws are going to expose who’s behind the keyboard – or at least their sex. Remember in Virtual Worlds – anyone can be a Dog.

MashUps:
There.com Uses Google Maps – http://webapps.prod.there.com/gmap/index.html
Google Earth Virtual World Back in Rumor Mill – http://www.3pointd.com/20070924/google-virtual-world-back-in-the-rumor-mill/
Secure Mashups with Smash – http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/434304.htm
Ajax Alliance – http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070924/tc_infoworld/92053_1

Music Publishing:
TuneCore – http://www.tunecore.com/musiciansfriend?utm_source=MF.com%2Fhome
This Week in Media – http://feeds.pixelcorps.com/feeds/twim.xml
Mr. Microphone Ad – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBoMysYIss&mode=related&search=

World news:
Chinese MMO Rules – http://news.filefront.com/chinese-mmo-bans-males-from-playing-female-characters/
Internet Shut off in Burhma – http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/world/asia/04info.html

Visualizations:
Flight Paterns – http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/Documentationl2.html

Listener Tags:
Andy Piper
DogAir – http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/zhongqj@cn.ibm.com/entry/dogair_desktop_client_for_lotus
Adobe Air – http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

Mikael Haglund
Sunshine Umbrella – http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/05/10/my_day_umbrella.html
Internet Umbrella – http://www.pileus.net/

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