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The Michael’s welcome Rawn Shah to the show. Rawn just published a new book on social media which caught our attention. A long time gamer and social media expert, Rawn helps people within IBM adopt social software. We also talk about wireless charging, humanAPIs, and the pro’s and con’s of Apple’s long awaited tablet.

What’s Cool
Rawn — Host encouraged – shameless self promotion!
Michael R — iPad Perfect for Mom!
Michael M — Stolen, Augmented, Cool! – epredator

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Virtual worlds — still worth your time – epredator
LL switch to OpenSim? – andypiper

Tech-no-tronic
IBM System P – allerhed
Wireless charging – @mjones via lx5
Discuss, develop and prototype new kinds of browser based applications – Z303
Eco jammin’ – ragtag_2

Mac-a-rooni
iPad #lame – rickmans
iPad #lame reprise – heidigoseek
Lenovo’s Cool Tablet
iPad not a kindle killer – billsweeney1
Mr. Edison’s kindle – billsweeney1

Social Networkin’
YouTubin’ with POTUS – mattsimpson
82% increase in social networking – rickmans
Yes, Virginia, the authors are listening – billsweeney1

Final thoughts
Andy — We Miss You!
Michael R — Wishing for Snow, so I can relax.
Rawn Shah — Vacation, while on vacation
Michael M — Thunderbird upgrade

Bonus Links
Zork online
Infocom Games online
Lemmings Online
Windows 3.1 in a browser

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As we begin a new year we’ve got no time for any look back (this week), way too many great tags from you our listeners. Also, Andy continues his holiday and will be joining us again next week. Next week we will talk about the tags that have stuck with us the most from 2009. But with CES going on we look at some cool new tech. Michael and Michael talk about Generation M’s impact on the enterprise (thanks to a great tag by billsweeney1 and rodent). We look at the best business model yet, and deal with the twitter nay-sayers. And thanks to ePredator we have to ask, has this augmented reality thing gone too far? Happy New Year!!!

What’s Cool
Michael R — AR Drone
Also AR Drone – listener tag wideawakewesley
Michael M — You Rock!

Augmented Reality
iphone in an iphone epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Google’s openness duckboxxer
CES kickoff by Ford’s President & CEO Alan Mulally, discussion on MyFord & Microsoft Sync

Social Networkin’
Snowmash 2.0 lx5
Facebookisation of the enterprise billsweeney1 rodney
Mother of all business models rickmans
TV scrobbling lx5
It’s 2010 and if you don’t embrace the web it shows you don’t care rickmans
Criticizing twitter heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Michael R — Roots are beautiful
Michael M — Trade Show? There’s an app for that

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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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