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While Andy jet sets back home from a week long conference, the Michaels take the opportunity to record a show at our favorite coffee shop Bean Traders. With a bit of cool jazz in the background, we talk about a great set of tech-no-tronic tags and ponder how much longer Facebook can survive with all the privacy issues which keep surfacing.

What’s cool?
Michael M — Shameless IBM gaming promotion
Michael R — Cool gaming Beta on the iPad

Obligatory 3-D Internet
3d printing replacement parts epredator

Tecn-no-tronic
Apartment Mech lx5
Google joining the ebook par-tay heidigoseek
Airspace reboot post ashpocolypse uncommonman
Expo Shanghai lx5
Happy geekmas and merry nerd year heidigoseek
Upcoming Google I/O allerhed

Mac-a-roonie
AT&T gets 6 more months of iPhone exclusivity billsweeney1
Why Apple Hates Flash

Social Networkin’
Social Marketing – so bad, it’s good! bluebus
Facebook 2010 lx5
Eroding Privacy Policy lx5
Bosses should embrace Facebook gamesfanum

Final thoughts
Michael R – great to do a live show every once in a while
Michael M – He Love’s PowerPoint

Bonus Links
Saturday Night Live – National Public Radio Reference

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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
This slate intentionally left blank

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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