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Michael, Andy and Michael enjoy another Dogear-Nation Friday talking about your tags. This week sees a transition for a long time listener and contributor, and sometime guest – Ian Hughes, who has started a new adventure called Feeding Edge. We also look at hackers enabling multi-touch on the Lenovo ThinkPad, and Politicians everywhere go crazy on Twitter. We hope to be announce a special guest coming to the show soon.

What’s cool?
Michael — Stimulating the economy with heater purchases for home & car
Michael — Learning the benefits and dangers of owning Scott-e-vest products
Andy — Alex Cornish recording

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Feeding Edge (lxs)
Emerging technologies on the radar (epredator)

Mac-a-rooni
Somebody pinch me! — Multi-touch on Lenovo ThinkPads (carolinabigblue)

Social Networkin’
Congressional Twitterers (kellypuffs)
Sweet to tweet (lxs)
Meeting in meatspace (andypiperuk)
Home sweet cube – really! (comcipher)

Tech-no-tronic
InnovationJam 2008 insights (duckboxxer)
Micro contributions (charlottett)
You’ll be wrapped around my finger (huskiect)

Final thoughts
Andy — The secret Life of Stormtroopers -Die rebel scum
Michael R — I need coffee!
Michael M — NEPOMUK

Bonus links
Tweetminster UK parlimentary twitterers
Barclaycard slide advert

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We had a couple of emails and a comment in the last episode about the Obama iPhone app and it’s location awareness.  As such, I’ved decided to do a couple of screen shots, for those of you who didn’t download it, or didn’t have access to it.

The above is the main screen, notice that every screen will have a donate button.  One thing that I think is very funny, is that thte interface looks like the Windows XP start bar.

When you first launch the app and then choose one of the things that should be location aware, you get prompted for permission to get your current location.

We then can show all the local stories based on our current location.  There is a simlar event screen, so if you travel, you can see if there are any local events where you happen to be.

Michael and Michael welcome back Effie Seiberg to the show this week. Given that the election is finally over, we’ve decided to take a look at the use of technology from the campaigns, websites, and the news networks. Social networks, Holograms, Maps, Location Based Services, Mashups, and iPhone Apps are all on the agenda. We even show you how to make your own Hologram! We also thank Andy for doing a quick 12Seconds video of the arrival of his Dogear Nation Swag!

Show Links

Political
Change.gov
iPhone application
Tax calculator

CNN board
Holographic interviews
How to do your own hologram

Kottke roundup
The Forbidden Zone

Magic wall
Google roundup
New York Times map

Swag!
Andy’s new Swag!

Final Thoughts
Michael M. – UNC Homecoming and Tuba Playing
Michael R. – 2008 Cool tech – Water bottle
Effie S. – 2012 Real Holograms by then

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Michael and Michael are sitting in the scary room of windows (see here on the Kyte Scream!) while recording this special Halloween edition of Dogear-Nation. After a scary look at some new takes on games – Thumb Wars and Mercenaries 2, we get into the Army’s fear of Twitter and other social networking tools. Sometimes change is scary, even when it allows your to interact with your customers, employees, and business partners. Thank you to everyone out there, who have been able to keep the tags going. We also thank all our Swag purchasers.

Bonechilling games
Mercs 2 upgrade — (Phaedra)
Thumb War! — (toastymel)
Firefox minefield — (duckboxxer)
Scott E Vest / woz-i-sodes

Spooky designs
Design changes with Windows — (andypiper)
Tesla
Wired Article, No-show Zap cars
EA 2.0 means cultural change — (ragtag_2)
XBMC

Scary Social Networking
Army warns of Twitter danger
And another
Facebook & Business — (ragtag_2)
Bloggers beat friend lists — (andypiper)

Frightening Obligatory Virtual Worlds
Monthly maint in SL raised — (Matt Simpson)

Final thoughts
Michael R –Don’t drive like a muppet named Animal
Michael M — Google secretly investing in Zeppelins, but do they have light emitting diodes on them?

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