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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, Michael and Michael are together again this week and decide that the obligatory 3-D Internet section didn’t have any content this week, so we let it slide. Is it still obligatory? Come post comments on the blog and let us know…Eroding your electronic brand… Printing a new kidney… More augmented reality… and a ton of news links from Andy… All this and more on this week’s Dogear-Nation!

Thank you for all your tags this week. And if you can figure out the video game that Michael R talked about during the Tech-no-tronic section…comment on this week’s show.

What’s Cool
Andy — Bobba Bar
Michael R — You’ve been Googled!
Michael M — I see you!!

Tech-no-tronic
Dual screen laptop! – duckboxxer
Branded tablets – uncommonman
Printing money by printing organs – epredator
Arcade expressionism – heidigoseek
Web 2.0 expo – mobthink

Social Networkin’
AR Twitter location – wideawakewesley
More AR Twitter location – heidigoseek
Waze crowdsourcing game
Backfiring Rewards – Rickmans
Social Media – Rickmans
Management access to social media – Rickmans
Tired of Waving yet? – lx5
Is super-cali-frag-a-twitter search – lx5

Final thoughts
Andy — superfast news roundup

• Google DNS
• Google Dictionary
• Bing Crash
• YouTube 1080p and Feather
• LG Watch phone
• SquareUp – NB correction to what Andy said in the show, this is a new venture from Jack Dorsey from Twitter, not Biz Stone.
• Waze
• Minimalist Google search page
• translated Google search

Michael R — What’s TWiT worth to you?
Michael M — Lego Rock Band

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Hey, Hey, Hey, What’s Happening? Raj, Rerun, and Dwayne are all back this episode for some good old fashion fun. After meeting up at our favorite lunch time place, the 3D Internet, we venture over to a strange and wonderful tech-no-tronic world full of scalability and youtube. Ultimately Dwayne asks, What’s Happening? and we end up thinking some Final Thoughts. Thanks for all the great tags from – rickmans, epredator, blebs, wideawakewesley, jtonline, heidigoseek, and lx5

Please note, we are aware of the problem with our iTunes feed and have been trying to get it fixed. You can still subscribe and will get the current episode even if the iTunes store shows our last episode being in August.

What’s Cool
Andy — Microsoft surface
Michael R — Smarter than a Cat
Michael M — SAP’s Augmented Reality

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Stick’em in your Eyes – radio waves power contact lens — rickmans Thanks for this one
N-Dubz augmented reality — epredator
Second Life still around? — bluebus

Tech-no-tronic
Holy See — wideawakewesley
Breaking things is not hard to do — Jtonline
1000 users on a sim — bonus link
Youtube captions — heidigoseek
21 heros of Data Visualization– lx5

Social Networkin’
What’s Happening?

Final thoughts
Andy — Google — chromium OS, captioning in YouTube, google image swirl, site hierachies google blog — location tagging blog post
Michael R — TomTom for iPhone
Michael M — AM Radio

Bonus Links
Izzy

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The Michaels enjoy a great set of listener tags. Andy has to take customer calls, and is unable to join us this week. We take this time with Andy away, to have a few shameless self promotions and tell you what we’ve been unto in our day jobs lately. Michael M. tries to infect the world with his coughs as he is in the scary eastern parts of Tennessee, but since it all via skype you are all safe — Happy Halloween.

Thank you to all the listeners who make this show possible each week with your tags – epredator, wideawakewesley, lunamoth, billsweeney1, ragtag_2, rickmans and lx5

What’s Cool
Michael M – Shameless Self Promotion
Michael R – Shameless Self Promotion

3D Internet
Future of the Enterprise: Special Event Live from San Francisco – epredator
Hands on with Acer’s 3D laptop – wideawakewesley
The Value of Virtual Worlds – epredator

Tech-No-tronic
Which is easier to understand: Google Wave or Cardiothoracic Surgery? – lunamoth
Beyond the Kindle: Color, Video E-Paper Devices Are Just Around the Corner – billsweeney1
Robots Tiptoe toward terminator – billsweeney1
Amazon goes Window shopping – michaelrowe01
CoolPics, CoolLens, CoolIris- Whatever!
Photo editor online – Pixlr.com edit image – ragtag_2
Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe – rickmans

Social Netorkin’
Peace on Facebook – rickmans
D&D on Google Wave – michaelrowe01
Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists – rickmans
In Authoritarian Regimes, Social Media Doesn’t Only Help Social Activists – rickmans
Privacy is dead and social media hold smoking gun – rickmans
Facebook ‘memorialises’ profiles – wideawakewesley
Uni adds Twitter to the curriculum – rickmans
Reading the Telegraph costs the British economy £1.38bn – rickmans

Da Governator
Track where US gov bailout trillions went with augmented reality mobile app – wideawakewesley
Net set for ‘language shake-up’ – lx5

Final Thoughts
Michael R – Alternative Mac software – AlternativeTo.net
Michael M – Real Life iPhone Costumes Put Your Crappy Halloween Outfit to Shame and Smart Phone Etiquette

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