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The Michaels have a great show this week, while Andy is out flying around. We are glad, however, that Andy is able to drop us a bit of coolness via Dropbox and edit it into this week’s show. In our 3D internet section we discuss meat space – This is a controversial contention, of course. There are proponents – of course you can have meaningful friendships online – and there are detractors – how on earth can a lean medium full of anonymous users replace the physical and visceral richness of meat-space? Thank you ePredator for a great tag! We also have a whole host of interesting listener tags to talk about, so don’t forget to keep tagging with “dogear-nation”!

What’s cool?
Andy — Lagoa Physics Engine – via @kelisha
Michael R. — Apple – Surprise 
Michael M — Wherebo? – Bo knows!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Out on meatspace epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Microsoft fun facts heidigoseek
Stuck in a rut? wideawakewesley
The Rise of Consumer Tech billsweeney1
HTML5 – Cool infographic heidigoseek

Mac-a-rooni 
Wired predicted the ipad heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
Games are everywhere, really? epredator
FB hated, really! heidigoseek
Ups & downs of social networking bluebus

Final thoughts
Andy –  Limbo game for XBox 360 and I Write Like via net@night podcast
Michael M — Ford Design 
Michael R — Local Gaming Incubator 

Bonus links
Chore wars from Episode 17 – I want my virtual MTV

Bonus Pics
Farnborough airshow photos

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Andy and the Michaels can tell the holidays are here… our tech-no-tronic section is overflowing with excellent tech thanks to our listeners (duckboxxer, rickmans, bradicle, philhartman, and billsweeney1). It appears that the 3D internet must be fading back into 2D, due to all the very cool augmented reality capabilities being brought to phones, so we have gotten the message from you, our listeners, and have left the Obligatory section as optional.

Our words of the day are (Andy) – Flible, (Michael M.) – None- he’s saving up, and (Michael R.) – Is.

What’s Cool
Andy — Raffle it!
Michael R — Metallica pussy cats
Michael M — Airlock

Obligatory 3-D Internet
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Tech-no-tronic
Going to bing? – duckboxxer
Facebook turning its square into a triangle – rickmans
Eye-fi / google deal – bradicle
True random numbers – philhartman
100k words per american per day – rickmans
Kindling competition – billsweeney1

Social Networkin’
Whose social network is stronger – Simon Cowell or everyone else? – rickmans
BBC Mashup shows – jtonline
Twitter demographics – jtonline
Twittering bed of the newly wed – wideawakewesley

Final thoughts
Andy — iPhone vs girlfriend
Michael R — Clash of the Titans
Michael M — Amazon Innovates again

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This week Michael and Michael welcome special guest Zack – AKA -@Comcipher, the winner of our Raleigh Twestival contest. We begin the show discussing the pros and cons of businesses in virtual worlds. Are how to books Ponzi schemes? Help us decide on this week’s show comments. More and more businesses are getting into Twitter, is this a good thing? Can Twitter replace regular customer service? Why do we need a blow by blow of a Surgery on Twitter? Is 140 Characters too much for a “real” tweet? Is Andy enjoying Riverdance? Is Creative Commons necessary for Twitter? We decide that all news breaks first on Twitter, can traditional media actually keep up? Does Larry King know the definition of a Blog? We look at these questions, and more.

Show Links

What’s cool?
Michael M — Kingdom of Loathing
Michael R — ThinkGeek Drumkit Shirt
Zach — Man Shoots TV

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Building your Own 3-D Internet business (michaelrowe01)
The Game of Education (carolinabigblue)

Mac-a-rooni
epredator goes Mac – and he won’t go back!
Symphony for Mac

Social Networkin’
twitterbiznezez (adreich)
Clamp.  Scapel.  Tweet. (heidigoseek)
?twitter for the less verbose.  The Much. Less. Verbose. (andypiperuk)
Twitterfriends powers activate! (andypiperuk)
licensing tweets via creative commons (graham_alton)
Facebook TOS, as if someone else needs to talk (andypiperuk)
NZ twitter blackout (comcypher)

Visualization
Mirror, mirror on the wall (comcipher)

Final thoughts
Michael R. : Hunt for Gollum
Zach:  Filmblazer & great time at the @raltwestival !
Michael M. : Tweetsie railroad and Tweetsie tweets

Bonus Links:
Lothar of the Hill People
Multitouch open source development group
Larry King Live

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Simplicity + Maximum Verbosity

Matt and Michael M ensure that the show goes on, despite Michael R’s illness — sending good wishes to our missing co-host with a slightly longer than usual episode, Matt and Michael talk about the beauty of simplicity, both in software and hardware products, reminisce about Dungeons and Dragons and discuss the grand sport of peep jousting . When things just work, it’s a beautiful thing. Matt is slowly breaking down, calling an iPhone “seductive” and actually tagging links with the device that must not be named. Could we be going 3 for 3 in the Dogear Nation host to iPhone ratio? Time will tell. In any case, pay attention to Matt’s final thought and backup your hard drive. You’ll be glad you did!

Listener links
Brian Jager / Kiss MS-Project goodbye — http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9896473-2.html?tag=nl.e724
37 signals / Basecamp — http://www.37signals.com/
KISS Wired Article — http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_signals
Sharkware CRM software — http://www.sharkware.org/
Harvey Mackay — http://www.harveymackay.com/

Social Networking
diigo – http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9898696-2.html
Lotus Connections — http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/
Twitterfox plugin — http://www.naan.net/trac/wiki/TwitterFox
Conversation has left the blogosphere – (TechMeme) – http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_conversation_has_left_the_blogosphere.php
5 Ways How Gen Y is changing IT — http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Five-Ways-Generation-Y-May-Reinvent-IT/
Matt’s simple aggregation wiki — http://underoak.bluehost.ibm.com/

iPhone-a-rama
Gartner re iPhone for Enterprise – http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39369898,00.htm
Old Gartner prediction not ready for enterprise — http://www.macworld.com/article/58530/2007/06/gartnerit.html
Microsoft Mouse 25th anniversary — http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/25thanniversary.mspx
MxTube native YouTube downloader — http://www.installerapps.com/2008/03/13/mxtube/

Obligatory 3D Internet
Doing Business In Virtual Worlds http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Trends/Doing-Business-in-Virtual-Worlds/?kc=CIOMINEPNL031208
Geek Love / Gary Gygax — http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09rogers.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Dungeons & Dragons — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_&_Dragons
Monster Manual — http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndcore/177550000
Zork — http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

Mixed Bag - Visualize World Peeps
Adults join kids in call for world peeps — http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/13338.html
Hail the Peep — http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/999423.html
Just Born (makers of Peeps) official website — http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/

Final Thoughts
Matt — backup your hard drive!
Drobo share — http://www.drobo.com/products_droboshare.aspx

Michael — from Luis Suarez’ tweet
Tom Peters Excellence for the Rest of Us “book” for Real People — http://www.tompeters.com/blogs/freestuff/uploads/Book_for_Real_People031808A.doc

The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution — http://www.amazon.com/Summer-1787-Men-Invented-Constitution/dp/0743286928

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Michael, Michael, and Matt welcome back Steven Harrison, and a new comer to Dogear-Nation – Michael Ackerbauer. The guys discuss the history of the cookie monster, the new palm ultra portable, and file systems from longhorn.

Computer History:
Rocketboom – IBM Training video with Cookie Monster -> http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/archives/2007/05/rb_07_may_07.html From listener Stephen Knight
The real computer monster -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAKgJDahzw
The Flip Wilson Show -> http://www.tvparty.com/flip.html
Long horn reloaded -> http://longhorn-reloaded.org/
Apple Newton -> http://www.beanblossom.in.us/larryy/ANHR.html
The Palm Foleo -> http://www.palm.com/us/products/mobilecompanion/foleo/index.html

Lotus Connections:
New Dogear -> http://dogear.tap.ibm.com/html?tag=dogear-nation&lang=en_US

TED Talks:
Simplification & Ease of Use -> http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/7
Multi-touch Interface device -> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

Google Features:
Street View feature -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91wuBqlny50
Street View Feature example -> http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=wl&hl=en

Cool Machinima:
iClone 2 -> http://www.reallusion.com/

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