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September 12, 2009

Dogear-Nation – Episode 120 – Quantum Cables

Author: Michael Rowe - Categories: Podcast
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Michael and Michael end up without our intrepid English co-host due to scheduling issues this week as we welcome new tagger bluebus to the show this week. We explore the astral world with Ghostwire, the Quantum World with Pigeons, and the old world with a Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone. At the same time we ask the important question – Do you Twitter to Facebook, or Facebook update your Tweets? Which one makes you smarter? Thanks for the great set of tags this week to: wideawarewesley, epredator, lx5, billsweeney1, heidigoseek, duckboxxer, bluebus, uncommonman, and lbenitz3000.

What’s Cool
Andy — Electric Light Orchestras (with iPhones) – via @rucsb on Twitter
Michael R — Monopoly City Streets
Michael M — New iPhone features in OS 3.1

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Ghostwire Nintendo DSi as a PKE meter (wideawakewesley)
Augmented reality Wiki (epredator)
Mydeco 3D home design (lx5)
Ultravox Freeman’s Sears Video

Tech-no-tronic
Pigeon powered network (billsweeney1)
Google Streetview Explained (wideawakewesley)
Asus e-Reader (heidigoseek)

Mac-a-rooni
Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone (duckboxxer)

Social Networkin’
Screencasts on Twitter (bluebus)
Dogear-Nation Screenr Test
Digital Distractions (uncommonman)
MIT’s personas- They’re back (lx5)
Facebook intelligence greater than Twitter intelligence? (rickmans)
Tweet MyMac (lbenitz3000)

Final thoughts
Michael R — Meerkat Viewer for Secondlife and Opensim
Michael M — BMW and Windows 7
looking forward to the Durham Bulls Blues Festival on Saturday, Sept 12th

August 8, 2009

Dogear-Nation – Episode 115 – The Intercasts!

Author: Michael Rowe - Categories: Podcast
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Michael and Michael enjoy an old school episode, while our guest has to reschedule due to travel issues – John we missed you and will get you back on the show soon. Andy takes a well deserved break, but as always gives us a great “What’s Cool” – Can you spot the edit? This week’s show includes a great set of Augmented Reality, Robotic, and Party Picture links, all surrounded by a Soundtrack captured in 140 characters. Thanks for all the great tags. Don’t forget to check out our contest, and provide us with feedback.

Special Thanks to – epredator, kevinaires, duckboxxer, wideawakewesley, mobthink, and rickmans for helping to create this week’s show with your tags!

What’s Cool
Andy — Touch Note
Michael R — Pentatonic Scale
Michael M — Bata-Bing?

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented Reality — living in a box (epredator)
Pixel Men!
Augmented ID (kevinaires)
Augmented Lego Reality (kevinaires)
SL feeling the lag of artificial life (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
MS-Roboto (duckboxxer)
Flying Festo Penguins (wideawakewesley)
The Beep should be beepin’ beep beep beep beeped! (wideawakewesley)

Mac-a-rooni
Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile (duckboxxer)

Social Networkin’
Marines vs ESPN vs IBM (mobthink)
Twitter and Facebook down, DogearNation.com Up! (andypiper)
Party like you wanna — Sony’ll take your picture (kevinaires)
Name that tune – in 140 characters or less (billsweeney1)
Who’s unfriending who? (rickmans)

Final thoughts
Andy — Dogear-Nation Contest
Michael R — Controlling your mind
Michael M — Open Source Cycling (via lx5)

Tags we couldn’t get to
Pulse Laser: “Preparing Us For AR”: the value of illustrating of future technologies (epredator)
Weekly Geekly – Geekly News – Augmented Reality Shooter (wideawakewesley)

July 18, 2009

Dogear-Nation – Episode 112 – Save our stories

Author: Michael Rowe - Categories: Podcast
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This week Andy and Michael R. welcome “TheRab!” AKA Ryan Boyles, IBM Project Zero’s community manager, to talk about the Enterprise 2.0 conference, his love of comics, and social networks. We keep getting many more tags then we can talk about, and we are glad to extend our “Cool Stuff We Had no Time For” section this week… you are all amazing! Michael M was doing what he does best (a speaking engagement, getting people excited about gaming and business), but he will be back next week.

Show Tags

What’s cool
Ryan – e20 Conference – How to spark a fight and Reflections on Boston…also Dogear-Nation e2Conf and All e2Conf Tags
Michael – Tether iPhone, breaks phone features (michaelrowe01)
Andy – Star Wars themed links Tauntaun Sleeping Bag (carolinabigblue); Star Wars uncut (carolinabigblue) and John Williams acapella (andypiperuk via kellypuffs)

Technotronic
Akamai Study: Broadband Traffic Grows Worldwide (kevinaires)
Akamai visualizer (andypiperuk)
BBC Digital Revolution and What is Digital Revolution (epred and wideawakewesley) and BBC SOS (andypiperuk)
Dyson using 3D printing of prototypes to speed innovation (epredator)
Spotify wins award (uncommonman)
and MSFT to start a competing service (wideawakewesley)
Kindle about to hit the UK (michaelrowe01)
Super cluttered website (lx5)

Social networkin’
Tech Crunch web trend visualisation on Zoomarama (wideawakewesley)
Online consumer trends (epredator) and epred’s analysis (lx5)
Texting teen falls down manhole (gypsychk)
How teenagers consume media (lx5)
(bonus link – Roo’s take)
Why teens aren’t using Twitter (wideawakewesley)
Who uses social networks and what are they like (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts
Andy – Coffee themed links – Tips and Tricks for better Coffee and Beautifully Delicious Coffee Designs
Michael – Doom on the iPhone and… he can’t remember (bonus link – Worms for iPhone)
Ryan – Best east coast Comic Con! and The Dance of Community Management

Where people can find Ryan
Twitter http://twitter.com/theRab
Blog http://mobthink.com
Project Zero

Thanks for contributing…
billsweeney, wideawakewesley, heidigoseek, gypsychk, uncommonman, epredator, lx5, kellypuffs, kevinaires, kiambogo… and our Twitter friends!

Cool stuff we had no time for
Craziness
Shadow art from junk (gypsychk)
Eternal moonwalk (wideawakewesley)
Girls making boy sounds (andypiperuk)
omgrofl programming language (lx5)
Social network pillows (andypiperuk)
Cardboard tube fighting league (kellypuffs)
Tweetcraft (andypiperuk)

Mac-a-rooni
iPhone 3G-not-so-S (kevinaires)
Smarter city + phone = win (kiambogo)
iPhone doormat (carolinabigblue)

Apparently-optional 3D Internet
Sketchlife (andypiperuk)
Virtual guidedog (carolinabigblue)
Cross reality – sensors and VW (heidigoseek)
Augmented reality starts becoming reality (kevinaires)

Other
Google Voice (US-only though!!) – (billsweeney)
IBM to provide core of UK biometric passport system (wideawakewesley)
Tech too cheap to meter, plan for abundance (epredator)
Bill Gates to stop hurricanes (wideawakewesley)… Does anyone else think this is a very, very bad idea??
MSFT vs Chrome (lx5)
Office 2010 in the cloud (gypsychk)
Swearing can make you feel better (!) (gypshychk)
Elf island, kids VW gaming for good (gypsychk)
Tesco supermarket API (lx5)
1979 iPod patent?! (gypsychk)
Pirate Bay to become a pay site (wideawakewesley)
Opening the Poken platform (andypiperuk)
18th century gadgetry (gypsychk)

June 25, 2009

Our Last.FM group – pool your musical taste

Author: Andy Piper - Categories: Podcast
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A quick post to point out that there’s now a Dogear Nation listener’s group on Last.FM. The more folks that join, the more the group will adapt to our shared musical interests… so get “scrobbling” and let’s see what we come up with!

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May 3, 2009

Dogear-Nation – Episode 100 – 100 ways to do a podcast

Author: Michael Rowe - Categories: Podcast
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Happy 100th to all our listeners. Without your support and tags, we’d never had made it this far. Michael, Andy, and Michael celebrate episode 100 of Dogear-Nation with a great set of listener tags and a return to the roots of it all – GAMING and Virtual Worlds. We also enjoy a few lists submitted by listener LX5.

Show Tags

What’s Cool?
Andy — Radio interview on RSS
Michael R — Triangle tweetup
Michael M — Meatloaf And Fonts from Route 66

Obligatory 3D Internet
Space Invaders! (epredator)
Star Trek Q&A in PlayStation Home (epredator)
Iron man 2 movie picture
pwned like a n00b (Michael R)
Virtual Travel (Michael R)

List of lists
Top 50 iPhone apps for MBAers (lx5)
Top 50 cities (lx5)
25 technologies that refuse to die (lx5)

Social Networkin’
Twitter Quitters (heidigoseek)
Interviews via Twitter (epredator)
What are Friends for? (Andy Piper)
Your friends friends (kiambogo)

Final thoughts
Michael M visible tweets
Andy P Moo.com now in the US! Will be in vegas next week for Impact (check out southpark video)
Michael R Coolest site on creating interesting stuff — LED panel tables (Steven H)

Bonus Links
make a book (heidigoseek)
IBM could be in Jeopardy! (lbenitez3000)
Sock Puppets of the World Unite! (Andy Piper)
Dickensian-izing urls (Andy Piper)
evite for twitter! (Andy Piper)