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We must be getting closer to Halloween, since we have death and undead on our minds. In our 3-D Internet section, we have people living out their lives in robotic forms. In our Tech-no-tronic section, we have the ability to will our Twitter account to someone after we die (could this end up causing a bit of Ghost Tweeting?). In our Win-A-Rooni section, we have Microsoft Windows’ attempt at rebirth with Windows 7 and house parties. And finally, in our Social Networking section, ma.gnolia comes back from the dead with a new invite-only social bookmarking tool. I think it’s time to play with the undead and head over to World of Warcraft!

What’s Cool
Andy — Lego t-shirt
Michael R — Heads up GPS on iPhone
Michael M — Augmented Reality and Bionic Eye, The future mashups are bleeding into the 3-D Internet.

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Linden Speaks at Metanomics Show (epredator)
Linden Lab says SecondLife is Huge! (kevinaires)
Surrogates (wideawakewesley)
Business users who don’t get it — doomed to failure (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Living will for your digital assets (lx5)
Fitbit launched (kevinaires)

Win-a-rooni
Host your own Windows 7 House Party! (lx5)
In da House (uncommonman)
Dogear-Nation’s Windows 7 House Party
Zune OLED screen outshines iPod and Video

Social Networkin’
Magnolia’s ba-ack! – Sorta (heidigoseek)
Visualization for local twitter trends (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts
Andy — Apture (rucsb) Checking Facebook during a burglary and Poken for Business
Michael R — Evidently not playing enough WoW
Michael M — Honda’s Segway-like Unicycle (via kevinaires)

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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)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:36 — 7.8MB)

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)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:35 — 16.4MB)

Andy shares the paralyzing effects of 3cm of snow in the UK this week, the team seeks to understand the differentiators Virtualis brings to the 3D virtual world convention centers, scarily descend to the depths of Old and Middle English (hundeare folc), experience how iGoogle takes up some serious bandwidth, consider iPhone beaming, and ruminate on Twitter as a vehicle for customer service.

Dogear Nation announces our sponsorship of the Raleigh Twestival (http://raleigh.twestival.com/).

What’s cool this week?
Michael R — the Raleigh Twestival & the Dogear Nation sponsorship
Andy — his new HDTV 37″ (notice the TV is not measured in metric!) and Anarkik 3D
Michael M — Legopalooza

Obligatory 3-D Internet
(epredator) Anarkik haptic control
(epredator) Virtualis
(epredator) Coca-Cola Super Bowl commercial

Tech-no-tronic
(michael rowe) Google lattitude
(duckboxxer) Google adds offline & flaky
(epredator) Sixth Sense / Minority Report interface

Social Networking
(bod) Poken-mon! gotta catch ‘em all!
(charlottett) #uksnow tweets
(kiambogo) Travel firms to share news via twitter
(kiambogo) Magnoila’s sad demise

Final thoughts
Michael R — Raleigh twestival

Andy — Amazon games

Michael M — #nerdpickuplines

Bonus links

Berlin Touch lyrics
Legopalooza at the Morehead Planetarium
Lego Store to come to Raleigh
google spy
GTA commercial
Modern English to Old English translator
beamME iPhone application
Twinkle
Stephen Fry stuck in a lift
(kiambogo) BarackBerry

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