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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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This week we enjoy giving Michael M. the Heebie Jeebies as we talk about Augmented Reality contact lenses, proving that we won’t all need glasses one day. epredator provides us with the most challenging game ever, and Douglas Adams’ wisdom continues to be right, 10 years later. We also pick up a few new reviews of the podcast from The Thinking Man’s Podcasts, Anne and the Podcast Place – Thanks guys!

What’s Cool
Andy — The Thinking Man’s Podcasts, The Podcast Place and Anne is a Man review Dogear-Nation.
Michael R — Lenovo A600 All-in-One desktop
Michael M — Noobs ain’t a word ’cause it ain’t in the dictionary

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Operation Unholy Rage (kiambogo)
Mannahatta project — Manhattan in 1609 AD (lx5)
Augmented contact lenses (andypiper)
Augmented contact lenses (kevinaires)
Bonus Link — Michael Hedges — Great Guitar musician with Augmented reality
One button jumper (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Sony Ericcson Ap Store / Open GL ES 2.0 (uncommonman)
But will it run Windows 7? — Restoration of the Harwell (1951 computer) (kevinaires)
Microsoft Requirement for 1280×720 resolution being dropped (wideawakewesley)
What hole has Michael M. been in? (billsweeney1)

Social Networkin’
Douglas Adams on the Internet (rickmans)
Knoyce +1 (duckboxxer)

Final thoughts
Michael R — Windows 7 Launch Party on Dogear-Nation
Andy — Star Wars Force Trainer and Lego Escher
Michael M — Lego house

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Michael R. takes on the whole concept of Social Networking in this gigantic rat hole of his own making, while Andy and Michael M. bring LotusLive to the forefront of all social networking — in the world!! With a heavy dose of virtual trade shows and some serious Microsoft Surface tension, this show has it all.

Show Notes

What’s Cool
Andy – Twestival
Michael R – Durham Tweet Up WIth Elsua and more!
Michael M – Snow in Chapel Hill – Big Red Sled!

Obligatory 3D Internet
Fractal tree generator — (mattsimpson)
Sony Electronics virtual trade show — (epredator)
Lotus Sametime 3D without the glasses — (epredator)

Social Networking
It’s ALIVE!!! Lotus Live — (epredator)
Zooming editor for stunning presentations — (jtonline)
Tweetgrid — (adreich)
Tweetdeck Adding columns of searches

Cool tech
MS Surface at Sheraton — (sweettt)
TechFluff.tv — (jtonline)
Doll out of living cells. Great balls of collagen. — (epredator)
BugLabs — If you mashup a bug, does it squish? — (graham_alton)

Final thoughts
Michael M — The Inaugural Moment (Fallout 3 version of Inauguration) — (epredator)
Michael R — Don’t sign up for things that consume your entire life? Shows / books, more.
Andy — Unveiled the mashup for twtrctr — Shameless Plug

Bonus links
Artificial life in Second Life (Mar 2007)
Engage expo

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This week Andy and the Michael’s welcome back Phaedra to the show. In our Obligatory 3D Internet section – Sony finally releases Home for the PS3, is anyone there? In Social Networkin’ we see the youngest twitter, Google tells us what we are thinking, Typealyzer misreads some blogs, is Web 2.0 dying, and do you have a personal brand yet? And we wrap the show looking at the environment in subways and on other planets. Keep on Tagging!

Obligatory 3D Internet
PS3 home (phaedra)
PS3 getting going

Social Networkin’
Youngest twitterer ever
Google zeitgeist
Typealyzer
Poverty of social networks & death of web 2.0 (heidigoseek)
Risks of personal brands

Environmental focus
Piezo-electric floors in Tokyo (heidigoseek)
Carbon dioxide, it’s out there!

Final thoughts
Michael R — New podcast for Michael!
Michael M — Who’s in the dog house — who who who?
Andy – Current cost iPhone App
Phaedra — Sony Home — will report back!

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This week, the Michaels & Matt are joined by Frank Jania, who shares his insights on idiot speak within the world of business (among other things.)  Please post your comments below!
The Idiots

• business people speak like idiots

• business cliches

• a plane flying behind a cloud or is is in a different frame

Hackday

• Makezine

A Vision for Twitter

• Deal or no Deal

• “What is social software?” twitter fight

• collaborative thinking

• Here Comes Everybody / Clay Shirkey

• IBM’s webbie world

• iGoogle sandbox

Obligatory 3D Internet

• Sony @ Home delays

• PS3 video download service

Final thoughts

• Michael Rowe

• Matt — Matt & Dvorak uses a Pavoni & Veronica didn’t take Matt’s advice

• Frank — http://digitalanalog.net/ & http://www.home-barista.com/

• Michael — espresso machine delivered!

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