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164 – Playing games while recording

Michael Rowe — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:50:27 +0000

The guys are excited to have our master tagger ePredator (or as some may know him – Ian Hughes) on the show this week. And while ePred is best known for his work within the 3D Internet, our tags this week focus on cool tech and social networking capabilities, with a slight diversion to legal action be brought against Apple. We also indulge in our inner geek with the new Thor trailer, even if some of us weren’t able to view it during the show – Michael R. assures us all that the link is still good (having tested it during the editing of the show). So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

What’s cool?
Ian / epred — Manchester Fablab and New Chairman of British Computing Society group for Animation and Game Development
Andy — Presentation about Social Software Adoption in the Workplace
Michael R — IT Crowd Series 4 Coming to the US
Michael M — Burningman visualzation

Obligatory 3-D Internet
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Tech-no-tronic
AR drone (not the vuvuzela kind) – allerhed
Forget the OLPC — how about a $35 tablet – gypsychk
London Zipbike Locations – bluebus

Mac-a-rooni
iPad doesn’t work like a book? – heidigoseek
iPad owners are selfish elites – billsweeney1
Users now free to break out of jail, on the iPhone – heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
HRH Flickerstream – gypsychk
Life, don’t talk to me about life – epredator

Final thoughts
Michael M — Michael Loves the Loved Game
Ian — Really irritated by Bejeweled Blitz and Michael Jackson Zombie removed from PvZ
Andy — MS Street Slide and Microsoft can still Innovate
Michael R — THOR! – we hope the link still works

bonus links
Gamestorming
Star Wars trench run
#wookieleaks meme
Experts question the $35 tablet

163 – Breaking Virtual Bread

Michael Rowe — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:31:34 +0000

The Michaels have a great show this week, while Andy is out flying around. We are glad, however, that Andy is able to drop us a bit of coolness via Dropbox and edit it into this week’s show. In our 3D internet section we discuss meat space – This is a controversial contention, of course. There are proponents – of course you can have meaningful friendships online – and there are detractors – how on earth can a lean medium full of anonymous users replace the physical and visceral richness of meat-space? Thank you ePredator for a great tag! We also have a whole host of interesting listener tags to talk about, so don’t forget to keep tagging with “dogear-nation”!

What’s cool?
Andy — Lagoa Physics Engine – via @kelisha
Michael R. — Apple – Surprise
Michael M — Wherebo? – Bo knows!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Out on meatspace epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Microsoft fun facts heidigoseek
Stuck in a rut? wideawakewesley
The Rise of Consumer Tech billsweeney1
HTML5 – Cool infographic heidigoseek

Mac-a-rooni
Wired predicted the ipad heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
Games are everywhere, really? epredator
FB hated, really! heidigoseek
Ups & downs of social networking bluebus

Final thoughts
Andy – Limbo game for XBox 360 and I Write Like via net@night podcast
Michael M — Ford Design
Michael R — Local Gaming Incubator

Bonus links
Chore wars from Episode 17 – I want my virtual MTV

Bonus Pics
Farnborough airshow photos

150 – The Kick Ass Show

Michael Rowe — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:55:48 +0000

Welcome to our 150th episode of Dogear-Nation. While our co-host Andy continues his travels around Europe, teaching and talking, the Michael’s enjoy a great show of listener tags. Don’t forget to keep on tagging with Dogear-Nation and comment about the show here, or over at iTunes. Thanks for a great ride so far, and we can’t wait for the next 150 shows!

What’s Cool
Michael R — WiFi Roaming Bot
Michael M — Tracking brand placement in movies

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Avatars in the Wild Blue Yonder – epredator
Rise of the virtual conference – wideawakewesley
SL on iPad – michaelrowe01

Tech-no-tronic
Smart Clothes – lx5
Dell’s New Tablet – lx5
Do Not Change Your Password – heidigoseek
Winkin’ Blinkin’ (and Nod) – lx5

Mac-a-rooni
Pulitzer Prize Cartoons on iPhone – wideawakewesley
Ford Sync and Blackberry and Pandora and … – duckboxxer
BB <> iPhone – epredator

Social Networkin’
Who is Folllowing You? – Billsweeney1
Bonus tags
Twitter Nostalgia – lx5
Social at Impact 2010 – allerhed
YubNub social search – bluebus
Social graph portability – duckboxxer

Final thoughts
Michael R — Billions and Billions, well one blue dot
Michael M — Star Wars, in concert — Sunday July 18th

145 – Follow the Moon

Michael Martine — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:55:54 +0000

Michael, Michael and Andy embark upon a wide ranging series of listener tags this week, and contemplate deep thoughts such as

How big should a Cadbury’s Creme Egg be, and should we have a snack section of the podcast?
How big does a Mini need to get to be considered a Max Mini?
Can you really say “floo-flam” on the internet and maintain a clean tag?
Can we successfully compete with our 2011 star-studded South by Southeast extravaganza?
Will our heroes escape the piranha fish, the boiling oil, and the dreaded chalkboard screech in time to save the Internet?

OK, maybe not the last one, still, there are deep questions that our listeners brought forward by their tags, and the hosts take them by the horns. Following the moon could be a very sustainable strategy indeed… Sit back, turn your volume up to 11 and enjoy the show.

What’s Cool
Andy — Sleepingtime via alexbfree
Michael R — you got to glove the one you’re with
Michael M — Freshness Bar Code via heidigoseek
coffee pot sized cadbury’s creme egg

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Playstation Home GAME Moonbase Trailer epredator
hello racer! epredator
clever ad for Mini and maxi Mini (Mini Countryman)
unity 3D to support android, ipad, PS3 epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Microsoft & Open Source lx5
quick messaging phones and cloud services billsweeney1
Google’s chillerless data center — follow the moon enabler lx5

Social Networkin’
Current State of Twitter infographic bluebus
social media marketing observations from SXSW via @jaybaer

Final thoughts
Michael R — the Hobbit
The Mikado

Andy — a teacher’s passing

Michael M — NCSSM Food Drive and
continuing basketball final thought

Dogear-Nation – Episode 129 – Creamy

Michael Rowe — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:18:38 +0000

Michael, Andy, and Michael are all back together again, and have a blast dealing with all your tags. This week’s tech heavy show gives us plenty of excitement, including more eye-ball stories to keep Michael M. happy. (Keep tagging great tags about sticking things in your eyes.). We also welcome new tagger Bradicle.

What’s Cool
Andy — Roocast
Michael R — Supporting Space Science!
Michael M — Text to speech / lane guidance

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Space invaders in 3D – heidigoseek

Tech-no-tronic
Dashing through the wifi halls – duckboxxer
The wifi gift that keeps on giving – lx5
Eyewriter – The Story – bradicle
Eyewriter source code – andypiper
Eyewriter – The site
Quantum Physics made relatively (heh) simple – phil_hartman
E-waste Guiyu (Where our stories end up) – gypsychk
Cool capital – phil_hartman
Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers – SarahAires

Mac-a-rooni
RFID on iPhone rumor – heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
Cream then jam – jtonline

Final thoughts
Andy — Original DOOM available & multiplayer – vintage video maker
Michael R — AT&T Microcell
Michael M — sousaphone!

Michael on The Field

Dogear-Nation – Episode 126 – Windows 7 Launch Party Live

Michael Rowe — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:26:24 +0000

After some major user issues with talkshoe Michael, Michael, and Andy do our much hyped Windows 7 launch party. We thank the team over at BeanTraders coffee shop for allowing us to record the show with a live group of listeners. Even though this was our Windows 7 party show, our great listener tags gave us some great 3D internet and Tech-no-tronic topics. Keep on tagging!

Andy joins us remotely -

Andy Via Skype

What’s Cool
Andy — Barcamp London
Michael R — Tweet Tags in 3D
Michael M — House of Seven Gables and Virtual College Fair

Win7-a-rooni
Windows7 hotter than the Nimbus2000!
Windows 7 Whopper
Linus Torvalds – Windows7 get a big thumbs up
IBM teams up with Ubuntu (ragtag_2)
Trust me Mac ad (carolinabigblue)

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented Collaboration in Mixed Environments (ACME) – watch out for that virtual anvil! (uncommonman)
IBM, Nokia and VTT — virtual meetings in physical spaces
Cisco’s 19,000 people can’t be wrong – gaming and virtual reality (epredator)
‘Explodes’ off page (wideawakewesley)
Total Engagement (epredator)
Hacking iphone for true AR (heidigoseek)

Tech-no-tronic
Taste test search engines – you be the judge (lx5)
Broadband in a backpack (wideawakewesley)
Al Franken mobile satellite uplink
Hacking the weather — give someone else a blizzard (gypsychk)
You can lend a book to a crook or a schnook and get it back without a hook — if you use a nook!

Social Networkin’
Sellin’ Tweets to Bing & Google (heidigoseek)
Add a dash of fun (lx5)
Mary Poppins Principle

Final thoughts
Andy — Shiny new Apple things
Michael R — Bean Traders
Michael M — Bluetooth Banana

Dogear-Nation – Episode 119 – Heebie Jeebies

Michael Rowe — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:15:30 +0000

This week we enjoy giving Michael M. the Heebie Jeebies as we talk about Augmented Reality contact lenses, proving that we won’t all need glasses one day. epredator provides us with the most challenging game ever, and Douglas Adams’ wisdom continues to be right, 10 years later. We also pick up a few new reviews of the podcast from The Thinking Man’s Podcasts, Anne and the Podcast Place – Thanks guys!

What’s Cool
Andy — The Thinking Man’s Podcasts, The Podcast Place and Anne is a Man review Dogear-Nation.
Michael R — Lenovo A600 All-in-One desktop
Michael M — Noobs ain’t a word ’cause it ain’t in the dictionary

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Operation Unholy Rage (kiambogo)
Mannahatta project — Manhattan in 1609 AD (lx5)
Augmented contact lenses (andypiper)
Augmented contact lenses (kevinaires)
Bonus Link — Michael Hedges — Great Guitar musician with Augmented reality
One button jumper (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Sony Ericcson Ap Store / Open GL ES 2.0 (uncommonman)
But will it run Windows 7? — Restoration of the Harwell (1951 computer) (kevinaires)
Microsoft Requirement for 1280×720 resolution being dropped (wideawakewesley)
What hole has Michael M. been in? (billsweeney1)

Social Networkin’
Douglas Adams on the Internet (rickmans)
Knoyce +1 (duckboxxer)

Final thoughts
Michael R — Windows 7 Launch Party on Dogear-Nation
Andy — Star Wars Force Trainer and Lego Escher
Michael M — Lego house

Dogear-Nation – Episode 114 – Hazardous Gaming Ahead

Michael Rowe — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:50:16 +0000

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

Dogear-Nation – Episode 106 – Togetherness

Michael Rowe — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:57:24 +0000

This week Michael and Michael are recording in the same room, for the first time in a long time, while Andy is out sick – Get well quickly Andy! But ever the trooper, Andy provides us a with “What’s Cool” this week. We have a ton of listener tags this week so take a listen and comment on this episode.

What’s Cool
Andy — The Guild
Michael R — Don’t get fooled by tiny urls!
Michael M — Radio wave powered cellphones

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Holodeck demo (andypiper)
Epredator’s blog post on Natal / PS3 convergence (lx5)
Upload your body (michaelrowe)

Tech-no-tronic
Most dangerous search terms (Emily)
Qualify for Amazon free shipping! (lx5)
Data visualization (lx5)
Camera + cellphone + text-to-speech = power! (epredator)

Mac-a-rooni
$1b data center (michaelrowe01)
Apple in NC (carolinabigblue)
Some new cellphone a’comin’…
Leo Loses it on air — (michaelrowe01)

Social Networkin’
Arrgh, it’s a Pirate Party! (helenalindh)
Map of Social Networks (kevinaires)
Meatcards tasty and information-carrying (heidigoseek)
Trolls running social media, or just hiding under the bridge? (michaelrowe01)
Twitter leads to burglary (or @fakeburglary?) (michaelrowe01)
Who are these guys? (michaelrowe01)

Final thoughts
Andy — Cell Phone evolution from @SilviaEmilia via Twitter
Michael R — Thank you to all the people at Charles University Prague!
Michael M — rapleaf / poken / a little scary how easy it is to discover social networking data

Cool Tags we didn’t get to
Dell Twitter Success – (kevinaires)
Digital Designs for Physical Objects – (epredator)
Talkback on Graphics Art (epredator)
TNT Tries sponsored tweets (uncommonman)
Camera Mouse (lx5)
Reputation Defender (kevinaires)
Best Cities (lx5)
ARToolkit download (epredator)
AI and AR (kevinaires)
Reverse Dictionary (lx5)

Dogear-Nation – Episode 105 – The Frankensode

Andy Piper — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:12:44 +0000

Special guest Kirk Nelson (@ArcatechOEM) joins Michael M and Andy to discuss Poken, Rapleaf and sharing identities. Everything gets recorded out of order. Andy stays up late fixing a bunch of audio capture problems. The resulting masterwork can only fairly be described as… the Frankenstein Episode!

Taggers this week
Thanks to kiambogo, jtonline, kevinaires, epredator, billsweeney, comcipher, duckboxxer, blowdart1, and lx5. You are all awesome – sorry we couldn’t hit every tag!

What’s Cool?
Andy — Apollo 11 Workshop Haynes manual
Michael M — mobile burger grill

Social Networkin’
Rapleaf aggregating public social networking data (kiambogo)
Thunderbird Rapleaf plugin (kiambogo)
Contxts (kiambogo)
The rise of the mighty Poken (carolinabigblue)
Nabaztag, nano:ztag, ztamp:s (carolinabigblue)
Meetingwave (billsweeney1)
Talent poaching (lx5)
The pros & cons of URL shorteners (andypiper)
Web design – an open letter to AA.com (lx5)

Obligatory 3D Internet
Prior 3-D Internet art (andypiper)
New glasses-based UI (kevinaires)

Tech-no-tronic
Wii Vitality Sensor (andypiper)
Project Natal (kevinaires)
Project Natal news coverage including “Milo” (andypiper)

Final thoughts
Michael M — Stealth computing netbook (via jtonline)
Andy — Voices of Lara Croft video (via “happymaker” @SilviaEmilia)

Dogear-Nation – Episode 86 – Is Collaboration Social Networking?

Michael Rowe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:19:04 +0000

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

Dogear-Nation – Episode 71 – Mac vs PC

Michael Rowe — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:14:58 +0000

Michael and Michael welcome Andy back to the show, after a long absence, and talk about the latest news from Apple. But before we get into that – we take a quick peak at how the Web is feeling. We also enjoy some great parody ads in the South Park vein. We then look at a great graphics-based search engine. Microsoft announces its potential new Cloud OS, while busily patenting Page Up and Page Down (no really – they did!). And conclude with a brief shout out the the “Un Conference” on Virtual Worlds in London. We then include our latest episode of the interviews from Virtual Worlds ’08 in LA, with Wallace Jackson from MindTaffy Designs.

Show Links

Social Networking
We Feel Fine
History of Microblogging

Mac
Southpark Mac Ad
Southpark Mac vs. PC vs. Linux
Apple Oct 14th Announcement

Search
Graphic Based Search

PC
Microsoft Patents Page Up and Page Down
Microsoft Announces Cloud OS

3D Internet
History of Virtual Worlds

Final Thoughts
Andy P – Luis Send me an email!
Michael M – Wife’s 20 year High School Reunion
Michael R – Please Take a Minute and do our Survey

Virtual Worlds ’08 Interview
Wallace Jackson MindTaffy Design

Dogear-Nation – Episode 70 – Open and Closed

Michael Rowe — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:09:56 +0000

Michael and Michael deal with issues of Open and Closed platforms. We are trying something new this week with the show notes. We are adding links to our listener’s blogs, if they tag something for the show. So props to all the listeners who keep tagging each week. We have so much to talk about each week, keep it up! This week’s Virtual Worlds ’08 interview is with 3Di from Japan, who are doing great things with high-quality, browser-based virtual worlds.

Show Links
3D Internet
Citizens of Virtual Worlds – Listener – Andy Piper

Developer News
Microsoft’s F# Language – Listener – Duckboxxer
Wii Sensitive Surface – Listener – Andy Piper

Social Networking
Businesses blocking Social sites for employees – Listener – Andy Piper
Swarming Visualizations

iPhone News
Free iPhone app for Lotus Notes
Notes comes to the iPhone
Apple drops iPhone Developer NDA
Listener creates great iTunes Store Pipes App

Final Thoughts
Michael M – Green Design
Michael R – Revision 3 – Farm League

Virtual Worlds Interview
3Di – OpenSim

Dogear-Nation – Episode 67 – Is Monopoly a Game?

Michael Rowe — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:18:13 +0000

Michael and Michael are back on Kyte.tv this week, with another behind the scenes look at the recording for Dogear-Nation. We do this most weeks at 3pm EST at (http://www.kyte.tv/ch/97390-dogear-nation). You can get notification of the recording starting by following Michael on twitter at http://twitter.com/michaelrowe01. We focus this week’s show all about games, including the game of Monopoly and how it plays into Google’s latest activities.

This week’s Links:

Game News
LittleBigPlanet: SackBoys in the Wild
Worlds in Motion Summit – Michael Rowe
Spore

Google News
Google Mix-up caused $1b Run on United
Single Web Hit LEd to UAL Glitch
Is Google a Monopoly?

Chrome News
Scott McCloud comic book

other chrome things
Wheels
Chicago Cloud Gate
Zippo lighter
Faucet
Optimus Prime belt buckle
Soda can dispenser

Social Networking
Bleeper.de
eReader

State of Things
Gaming in the Triangle

More games”
Microsoft Ad-2

Final Thoughts
Michael M. – Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?
Michael R. – Innovation Jam 2008

VW Interview
John Burwell – Forterra Systems

Dogear-Nation – Episode 54 – Elvis has Entered the Building

Michael Rowe — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:54:35 +0000

Michael, Michael, and Matt get together to talk about the future of the iPhone (not really but we have to do a hit and run on it). Microsoft shows Webslices and no one cares. Sony showed Rolly last year, and the world served up a collective Yawn, but at least we can talk about statistics. And Matt leads a discussion to enlighten anyone seriously interested in watching movies through the latest video goggles.

Tags:

Webslices” by duckboxxer

Sony Rolly

Myvu Personal Media Viewer – Solo Plus Edition – by Matt – a discussion on immersive video goggles

Most followers per update on twitter by seemsartless

Dogear-Nation – Episode 48 – We are the Robots

Michael Rowe — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:27:03 +0000

Today’s focus is all about collaboration… We look at many unique uses for social networks, they include – Shopping advice, Expresso Makers, Pictures, and getting arrested. IBM releases a Software as a service solution under the name BlueHouse, and robots come to attack our final thoughts. We also edxplain “How to Tag!” so your voice is heard on Dogear-Nation.Show Links Collaboration! Bill Sweeney listener links

BazzarVoice

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Collaboration Tech!

Final Thoughts

Michael R, CCRI h-robots
Matt, exoskelletons
Michael M, New Google Maps feature to predict travel time

Dogear-Nation – Episode 45 – We’ve Got Email!

Michael Rowe — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:50:05 +0000

In this week’s episode…

Michael, Michael, and Matt are all working from their respective homes today. Michael and Matt discuss about how many email accounts do you really need on your iPhone, while discussing Michael’s first iPhone application and the release of the SDK beta 2. Is Apple trying to take over all of your media with the latest of Apple patents? Is Microsoft trying to jump on the iPhone bandwagon? After all of these announcements, we’ve decided to finally setup our Dogear-Nation email address. Drop us a line at dogearnation@gmail.com . Also, if you want an invite to Evernote, drop us a note at dogearnation@gmail.com for a beta invite.

Show Links

Dogear-Nation – Episode 6 – Who are these Yahoos?

Michael Rowe — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:54:05 +0000

Michael, Michael and Matt get together to talk about rumors of Microsoft buying Yahoo, potential troubles at Digg.com, and Cyborgs. Also, the guys makes sure that no one confuses them for lawyers, while questioning the judgement of some hackers.

General:
Microsoft and Yahoo – http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB117827827757492168-lMyQjAxMDE3NzA4NDIwNzQ4Wj.html
Digg.com digs a hole – http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2125752,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL050407EOAD
Talkshoe – http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/main.jsp?pushNav=1

Mandatory 3D Internet Section:
The First Cyborg – http://www.flickr.com/photos/philosophy_rebel/470666935/in/pool-79444839@N00/
IBM Tops list of Corporate Second Life sites – http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018238&pageNumber=1
Motorati Island – http://motoratilife.com/

Technology, Convergence, and Mash-ups:
Fring – VoIP for your cell phone – http://www.fring.com/
Cyborg and Robotics – http://www.kevinwarwick.com/faq.htm
Reading Wikipedia on iPod – http://swannman.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/howto-read-wikipedia-on-an-ipod/
Firedog – http://www.firedog.com/
Geek Squad – http://www.geeksquad.com/