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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

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The Michaels wish Andy a happy birthday and hope that he’s off enjoying himself. We also get a listener tag for a bit of birthday music. We also decide that this week’s show will honor South by SouthWest, which we are competing with this week by talking about Music, Movies, and Entertainment. Enjoy the show!

Show Tags

What’s Cool
For Andy — Happy Birthday via @gypsychk
Michael R — DiggNation Raleigh? and Leo’s Meme this week
Michael M — 8-Bit New York City (via heidigoseek)

SExSE
Geek Music epredator
it’s 2010 and my jetpack is here billsweeney
Irish Fireside (Bonus Link)
Engineer barbie lx5
Ada Lovelace Day and Shift-Run-Stop Episode (Bonus Link)
Death on a Pale Horse (Bonus Link)
Tron trailer
Bruce Boxleitner – Babylon 5 (Bonus Link)
A-team trailer

Final thoughts
Michael R — Hoodie to laptop bag via tweets
Michael M — Curtis Blow — They’re playing bas-ket-ball

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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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Michael, Andy, and Michael welcome special guest Matt Simpson from Sweettt to talk about the segregation of adult content within Second Life. Michael M. would have talked more about the conference he was at last week, but then he would have had to kill us. Is shameless self promotion on Twitter OK? Is it OK for Amazon to remove books from your Kindle? Can you build a token economy within Social Networks? Is Best Buy being fair with their Web vs. in store pricing? Are luggage handlers, mis-handling your luggage? All these questions and more will be addressed this week on Dogear-Nation!

Thank you for your tags: Sweettt, kevinaires, epredator, gypsychk, uncommonman, wideawakewesley, lx5, rickmans, and jtonline

What’s Cool
Andy — iSnapShotter and Photoshop Like App for iPhone
Michael R — WoW the Movie has a Director
Michael M — Gaming for Peace
Matt — ebook reader by Plasticlogic (sweettt) and Catching Kindle (sweettt)

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Long Tail for Virtual Worlds (kevinaires)
Babylon SLURL
Castle Wolfenstein 3D source code available – man the parapets! (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Wakey-Wakey watch (gypsychk)
Swpppt — sound of whispernet taking books *off* your kindle (uncommonman)
Spotify adds 2m more tracks (wideawakewesley)

Social Networkin’
House tweet party (lx5)
Monetizing twitter (lx5)
When did you join Twitter? (kevinaires)
Me me me me (all about me!) (rickmans)
Another bad twitter brand story (rickmans)
Note to self: don’t piss off a musician (uncommonman)

Final thoughts
Matt — Singingbowl
Andy — Dogs Who Twitter
Michael R — Image-based Search (previously mentioned on Episode 71)
Michael M — Temporal photos

Links we didn’t get to
Attack of the 50 foot twitter! (wideawakewesley)
Gardeners tend their social networks too! (jtonline)

Bonus links
A different kind of TV Remote Control
Comic Themes for Google
Dave Carroll
Andy’s blog post on 140 characters

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The guys take this week’s show to talk about their love of coffee, actually more on espresso, spurred on by a listener email. We also discuss the value of the movie theater verses a good home theater system.

Episode 50!

Mikael Haglund listener link
Gin, Television & Social Surplus
Robert Putnam / Bowling Alone
IronMan, the movie (opens 2 May in the US)

Games, Games & More Games
We’ve Won, Get Over It
Castle Wolfenstein in 3D
How IBM Uses Online Games for Serious Business
Leadership’s

Online Labs
Emerging Graphic Tool Gets People Talking
Bull Durham anniversary

Social Networking / Web 11.0
Is Web 2.0, Too Much Of a Good Thing?
Someecards / Twitter card
Despair.com
War of the Social Networks

Mac-a-roni
Mac in the Flannel Suit

Apps & Eggs
Portable Apps
Grand Theft IV Auto Easter Eggs: Apple/ iPhone parody

Coffee Talk
Espresso makers
La Pavoni PL
Miss Silvia
Braun E20/E25

Veronica Belmont / Ryan request for advice

Coffee
Trader Joe’s Columbian Supremo
Larry’s Beans Secret Espresso Blend
Bean Traders

Final Thoughts
Michael M’s — Espresso Boilermaker
Matt’s –
Michael R’s –SWAG!

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