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Back to full strength for the start today, but we do lose Michael M. due to conflicts midway thru the show. We go back to the Future and talk about Linden Lab’s new SecondLife Viewer Version 2.0, which comes to us from many of our listeners. We also look at how European privacy and media laws are starting to impact Google and social media sites. Thanks for all the great tags this week!

What’s Cool
Andy — Flower Power Lights
Michael R — Roadie
Michael M — Lego Mindstorms robot solves Rubics cube under 12 seconds via lx5

Obligatory 3-D Internet
SL following Web Browser metaphor – mattsimpson
SL goes 2.0 with webby viewer – epredator
Sneak peek at new SL viewer
Linden hosting a registry of SL viewers – andypiper
Syntensity 3D game builder for the masses – epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Awesome Cast Wraps – uncommonman
Italian Google privacy case – billsweeney1
Facebook opens Hamburg office, now under German data privacy laws – rickmans
NASA’s Lunar Electric Rover iPhone game – allerhed
Google Buzz and Parental Controls – wideawakewesley
Google buys reMail application, removes from appstore
Mozilla Ubiquity no more (or is it?) – heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Andy — Opportunistic Development for Ubuntu
Michael R — Twitter perceptions of Google Buzz and Effie’s Designer Cakes
Michael M — IBM as a digital dancing elephant via lx5

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Michael R. forgot to hit the big red button this week, so we have an abbreviated show with Andy and Michael R, going thru all the excitement you missed. This random walk is brought to you by the letters F-U-B-A and R.

Links

Lights Out for the Dark Star – wideawakewesley

Star Wars – Fail – ePredator

Shift – Run – Stop – lxs

Symbian – Opensource – About Time/Too Late – lxs

Private Surfing – lxs

Paid to Play – ePredator

BBC Documentary about the Internet – lxs

Google’s Social Circle – andypiper

A Day without Google – andypiper

Iron Man Sticker – michaelrowe01

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With a full complement of hosts, our friend Matt Simpson from Sweettt.com joins us to review the news of the week, and we comment on the big topics from last year. Unlike some of our competitors, this podcast is unbreakable! (ooops… did I just say that live on air?)

What’s Cool
Matt — photo of the day and CoolIris
Andy — a different take on Tetris
Michael R — oldtech new again
Michael M — drake equation

Obligatory 3-D Internet
100 virtual tours (epredator)
playing in virtual worlds (epredator)
AR helping mechanics (wideawakewesley)
LEGO Universe (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Reigniting the patent discussion (lx5 / ragtag_2)
Unbreakable phone breaks (billsweeney1) – also on Failblog (andyp)
blessed blackberry (lx5)
third and the seventh art & architecture (z303 /epredator)

Mac-a-rooni
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Social Networkin’
Monetizing Twitter on a personal level (billsweeney1)
Privacy? No Problem at Facebook! (heidigoseek)
map-a-rooni google to upgrade billboards in street view (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts / best of 2009
Michael R — augmented reality really coming to the surface
Andy — location based internet – sharing location
Matt — the Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
Michael M — – social computing / games driving more collaboration example: www.waze.com

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We would tell you where Michael M was this week, but given the tags this week on the lack of privacy in social media, we are sure you can find out yourself! We wonder whatever happened to Sony’s Playstation Home. We take some time and review the privacy settings of Facebook and other social media networks. And finally: has augmented reality finally gone mainstream with the iPhone? All this, and more of your tags, this week on Dogear-Nation.

What’s cool
Michael: Mythical Venn Diagram – Via @kevinrose tweet
Andy: 8-Bit Video

Obligatory 3D internet
How to Salvage Sony at Home – epredator
EduStyle Winners – lx5
Online 3D Pics Created – lx5

Social media security
Facebook Privacy, Fail!
Adobe Flash Cookies, Fail! – rickmans
Filesharing Tells preferences – lx5
MIT Persona Project – heidigoseek
ID Card Cloners – wideawakewesley
45% of all Employers use Social Media Screening – heidigoseek

Augmented Reality / iPhone
3 Augmented Reality Apps on iPhone – andypiper
AR in Paris – uncommonman
Evolution of Augmented Reality – uncommonman
Spotify For iPhone Approved – lx5

Final Thoughts
Andy: A Single Molecule – lx5
Michael: Ultimate Gadget Blog – lx5

Bonus Tags
Evolver – epredator
Mixamo – epredator
Fabrege Shampoo
Knock Three Times

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Michael, Andy and Michael are excited to welcome special guest Veronica Belmont to this weeks episode. After a rough and rocky restart (check out the end of the show – I guess that’s why it’s Friday the 13th), we dive right into our listener tags, including 3-D patient records, crazy British dress up day, and ways of getting out of all those social networks you’ve been joining for years. We also spend some time reviewing the new Facebook Privacy application, is it ready for prime time?

What’s cool?
Michael M — Peepfest!
Andy — Blue fusion – Week
Veronica — The vintage web
Michael R — Converting to run Safari 4 as primary browser

Obligatory 3-D Internet>
3-D patient record software – (dbartek)
Prior virtual art or a real case – (kevinaires)

Social Networkin’
Rednosin Day – (tx5)
Facebook privacy application

Mac-a-rooni
Sirius/XM on iPhone in 2Q – “primary distribution outlet, new car ales,” (SIC)
iPhone 3.0 coming

Technotronic
Get out of LinkedIn, find a new place MySpace, no need to be coy, Roy – set yourself free – (mattsimpson)
Patent allowing wearer to dodge bullets – (dbartek)

Final thoughts
Michael M — No plain brown wrappers on the whispernet! – (kiambogo)
Andy – ego — New niece
Michael R — record button is good
Verionia — Sword and Laser – Eye of the world. 2nd book on audible — not so great.

Bonus links from the show
Visible Human Server
The Visible Human Project
The Adam Software
BMW Augmented Reality

Google’s Opt out on Ads
BT claims patents on hyperlinks

Twitterlink – (twitterlink)

Other great links we didn’t get to
Apple Netbook with touchscreen rumor part 347

End of the line for IE? – (huskiect)
Military applications of post-it notes? – (comcipher)

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