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Simplicity + Maximum Verbosity

Matt and Michael M ensure that the show goes on, despite Michael R’s illness — sending good wishes to our missing co-host with a slightly longer than usual episode, Matt and Michael talk about the beauty of simplicity, both in software and hardware products, reminisce about Dungeons and Dragons and discuss the grand sport of peep jousting . When things just work, it’s a beautiful thing. Matt is slowly breaking down, calling an iPhone “seductive” and actually tagging links with the device that must not be named. Could we be going 3 for 3 in the Dogear Nation host to iPhone ratio? Time will tell. In any case, pay attention to Matt’s final thought and backup your hard drive. You’ll be glad you did!

Listener links
Brian Jager / Kiss MS-Project goodbye — http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9896473-2.html?tag=nl.e724
37 signals / Basecamp — http://www.37signals.com/
KISS Wired Article — http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_signals
Sharkware CRM software — http://www.sharkware.org/
Harvey Mackay — http://www.harveymackay.com/

Social Networking
diigo – http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9898696-2.html
Lotus Connections — http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/
Twitterfox plugin — http://www.naan.net/trac/wiki/TwitterFox
Conversation has left the blogosphere – (TechMeme) – http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_conversation_has_left_the_blogosphere.php
5 Ways How Gen Y is changing IT — http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Five-Ways-Generation-Y-May-Reinvent-IT/
Matt’s simple aggregation wiki — http://underoak.bluehost.ibm.com/

iPhone-a-rama
Gartner re iPhone for Enterprise – http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39369898,00.htm
Old Gartner prediction not ready for enterprise — http://www.macworld.com/article/58530/2007/06/gartnerit.html
Microsoft Mouse 25th anniversary — http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/25thanniversary.mspx
MxTube native YouTube downloader — http://www.installerapps.com/2008/03/13/mxtube/

Obligatory 3D Internet
Doing Business In Virtual Worlds http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Trends/Doing-Business-in-Virtual-Worlds/?kc=CIOMINEPNL031208
Geek Love / Gary Gygax — http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09rogers.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Dungeons & Dragons — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_&_Dragons
Monster Manual — http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndcore/177550000
Zork — http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

Mixed Bag - Visualize World Peeps
Adults join kids in call for world peeps — http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/13338.html
Hail the Peep — http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/999423.html
Just Born (makers of Peeps) official website — http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/

Final Thoughts
Matt — backup your hard drive!
Drobo share — http://www.drobo.com/products_droboshare.aspx

Michael — from Luis Suarez’ tweet
Tom Peters Excellence for the Rest of Us “book” for Real People — http://www.tompeters.com/blogs/freestuff/uploads/Book_for_Real_People031808A.doc

The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution — http://www.amazon.com/Summer-1787-Men-Invented-Constitution/dp/0743286928

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With the guys fully back in form, we deside to dig back into our dogear archives for a tag from Jasmin Tragas on “Should Enterprise Apps be Sexy?”. Given our history of innovation, visualization and pleasing experiences, while our answer surprise you? Check out this week’s show to find out!

Tags:
Enterprise apps should be sexy / Jasmin Tragas — http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/12/10/enterprise-apps-can-and-should-be-sexy/

Operating Systems
Macworld redux — http://www.macworldencore.com/online/presentation.asp
Linux inside windows — http://www.andlinux.org/
iPhone to become direct MS Exchange clients — http://macwindows.com/news_iphone_exchangeclient.html
iPhone developer program — http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

Music systems
Pandora does classical music — http://www.pandora.com/
Netflix prize — http://www.netflixprize.com/
Netflix prize Wired article — http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_netflix

Obligatory 3D Internet
Circuit City — http://www.massively.com/2008/02/29/circuit-city-relaunches-in-second-life/
3D Internet clicks with BBC / Holly Stewart — http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/2008/03/uknews_internetstrategyclicksatbbc.html
Linden Labs introduces HTML in SL — http://digado.nl/linden-lab-introduces-html-in-sl.html
Vbusiness and the 3D Internet / Mikael Haglund — http://www.publ.hj.se/diva/abstract.xsql?dbid=1160
Reaching haptic controllers — http://www.reachin.se/

Final Thoughts
Michael M. –> go Tar Heels! Beat Dook!
Matt –> Open AIM — http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/aol-gets-it-right-with-open-aim-20-embraces-meebo-and-ebuddy/
Michael R. –> ROWE launch kit — http://www.culturerx.com/

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This week Matt Simpson and Michael Rowe take time to have a little phone with listener tags. But before that begins, a quick review of virtual reality verses Real reality, takes the guys into a nice discussion of the necessity of physics.Show Links:Fredic Birthday – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance#SynopsisObligatory 3D Internet Section:Virtual reality is Real Reality – Digado – http://digado.nl/virtual-reality-is-real-reality.htmlRay Kurzwell at Ted- http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/38Howard Rheingold – Way-New Collaboration – http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/216Innovation Section: Scott Innovation Insights Tag – http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/anthony/2008/02/sony_winning_the_wrong_war.html?cm_mmc=npv-_-listserv-_-FEB_2008-_-InnovEntreWii Outsells PS3 – 4 to 1 – http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/28/brawl-effect-wii-outsells-ps3-4-to-1-in-japan/Shameless Self Promotion Section: Dogear-Nation – Evil Episode 29 – The Evil Episode – http://www.dogearnation.com/2007/11/06/dogear-nation-episode-29-the-evil-episode/Beehive yourself – http://beehive.cambridge.ibm.com/beehive/events/?id=ff808081182e32e0011832d9073d50d45 Reasons to Give Points as Incentive – http://beehive.cambridge.ibm.com/beehive/hive5s/?id=ff80808115d73edd0115faed47696fbcAndy’s Dogear Nation Widget for the Mac – http://jumpgate.homelinux.net/random/DogearNation.wdgt.zipFinal Thoughts:Top 20 Oxymorons – http://www.stonerguy.com/2008/02/27/the-top-20-oxymorons/

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