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167 – Virtually Down Under

Michael Rowe — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:41:00 +0000

While Andy begins his quest to find our one Chinese listener, we welcome Kelly Yeoh (@kelisha on twitter) on to the show to talk give us the southern hemisphere’s perspective of our listener tags. And boy do we have a bunch of great tags this week: glue, snow, web, games, and books are all on the menu today. So stick around and enjoy the show!

Dogear Nation search using Duck Duck Go

What’s cool?
Kelly — Goosing the search engine game and Geek Girl Dinners
Michael R. — Indie Game Challenge
Michael M — Mary Poppins Principle

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Australia’s 2010 election andypiper
Augmented reality object glue: junaio glue epredator
Sketchup to SL — sketchy? jtonline
Project Snowstorm epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Higher IQ = < Zzzzs (at least on weekdays) gypsychk
Design is history bradicle
Apps are suburbia, the web is downtown duckboxxer

Mac-a-rooni
Comic books from your video games mobthink

Social Networkin’
just look at all the colors! Is the web dead? bluebus
Read Ayn Rand heidigoseek
Twifficiency heidigoseek
Twournal — book it Lion-o

Final thoughts
Kelly — Andy, I hope I did you proud!
Michael M — I need to shower and shave!
Michael R — Great to have the different perspective on the show

bonus links

Outliers
GeoCities
Comic Strip Aggregator

150 – The Kick Ass Show

Michael Rowe — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:55:48 +0000

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

Dogear-Nation – Episode 91 – New Beginnings

Michael Rowe — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:00:42 +0000

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

Obama iPhone App

Michael Rowe — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:28:25 +0000

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.

Dogear-Nation – Episode 75 – Dogear Polytechnic

Michael Rowe — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:52:45 +0000

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

Dogear-Nation – Episode 74 – Scary Tech

Michael Rowe — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:14:34 +0000

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?