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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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Andy, Michael, and Michael must be having a crazy overloaded week and the show title shows it. The good news is we have a great set of listeners who tag some fantastic sites for us to talk about this week. We also, somehow, don’t talk about any tags for some possible upcoming device from a company in Copertino. But our robot overlords won’t let us anyway…so why try. We also see the power of the Dogear-Nation bump see here ->

What’s Cool
Andy — Tungle Me!
Michael R — Star Wars shirt
Michael M — CauseWorld

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Second Life economy grows rickmans
Utah 3D sweettt

Tech-no-tronic
Playing games with your webcam lx5
Visual search engine set billsweeney1
Seesmic Look andypiper

Social Networkin’
Bedwarming Service billsweeney1
SarcMarc rickmans

Final thoughts
Andy — contemplating the announcement of the shiny new device next week
Michael R — Lame accessory
Michael M — Non-Beer Guinness

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Andy and Michael soldier on without Michael Martine this week, but Michael, ever the professional, drops us a few inserts to make sure that he’s cool enough. This week’s tags are a great collection of technology and geekiness including – Spheres, spiral galaxies, and assassins. Thanks to all of you who tag, and come meet us on October 23rd if you are in the RTP area of North Carolina as we do our Windows House Party.

What’s Cool
Andy — Magic Wand
Michael R — MythHackers
Michael M — Red Shirt Cologne And Star Wars at National Mall in Washington, DC

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Spherical Virtual World (epredator)
Augmented Reality showing Twin Towers (wideawakewesley)
Augmented Reality apps to buy now! (kevinaires)
Unlock content by snapping a picture of a logo (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
MS-Mouse on multitouch (wideawakewesley)
Netflix Prize awarded (lxs)
3-D Stellar wiki (Philip Hartman)

Social Networkin’
GPS Assassins (Philip Hartman)
(Bonus)Halting State by Charles
Top collaboration tools that aren’t Google Wave (Rick Mans)
Analysis of leaked/weak passwords (wideawakewesley)

Final thoughts
Andy — Micro Men on BBC4
Michael R — Emotiv Headset – Developers Kit!!
Michael M — Everything’s L$10 and here’s a voucher

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This week Andy and Michael R. welcome “TheRab!” AKA Ryan Boyles, IBM Project Zero’s community manager, to talk about the Enterprise 2.0 conference, his love of comics, and social networks. We keep getting many more tags then we can talk about, and we are glad to extend our “Cool Stuff We Had no Time For” section this week… you are all amazing! Michael M was doing what he does best (a speaking engagement, getting people excited about gaming and business), but he will be back next week.

Show Tags

What’s cool
Ryan – e20 Conference – How to spark a fight and Reflections on Boston…also Dogear-Nation e2Conf and All e2Conf Tags
Michael – Tether iPhone, breaks phone features (michaelrowe01)
Andy – Star Wars themed links Tauntaun Sleeping Bag (carolinabigblue); Star Wars uncut (carolinabigblue) and John Williams acapella (andypiperuk via kellypuffs)

Technotronic
Akamai Study: Broadband Traffic Grows Worldwide (kevinaires)
Akamai visualizer (andypiperuk)
BBC Digital Revolution and What is Digital Revolution (epred and wideawakewesley) and BBC SOS (andypiperuk)
Dyson using 3D printing of prototypes to speed innovation (epredator)
Spotify wins award (uncommonman)
and MSFT to start a competing service (wideawakewesley)
Kindle about to hit the UK (michaelrowe01)
Super cluttered website (lx5)

Social networkin’
Tech Crunch web trend visualisation on Zoomarama (wideawakewesley)
Online consumer trends (epredator) and epred’s analysis (lx5)
Texting teen falls down manhole (gypsychk)
How teenagers consume media (lx5)
(bonus link – Roo’s take)
Why teens aren’t using Twitter (wideawakewesley)
Who uses social networks and what are they like (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts
Andy – Coffee themed links – Tips and Tricks for better Coffee and Beautifully Delicious Coffee Designs
Michael – Doom on the iPhone and… he can’t remember (bonus link – Worms for iPhone)
Ryan – Best east coast Comic Con! and The Dance of Community Management

Where people can find Ryan
Twitter http://twitter.com/theRab
Blog http://mobthink.com
Project Zero

Thanks for contributing…
billsweeney, wideawakewesley, heidigoseek, gypsychk, uncommonman, epredator, lx5, kellypuffs, kevinaires, kiambogo… and our Twitter friends!

Cool stuff we had no time for
Craziness
Shadow art from junk (gypsychk)
Eternal moonwalk (wideawakewesley)
Girls making boy sounds (andypiperuk)
omgrofl programming language (lx5)
Social network pillows (andypiperuk)
Cardboard tube fighting league (kellypuffs)
Tweetcraft (andypiperuk)

Mac-a-rooni
iPhone 3G-not-so-S (kevinaires)
Smarter city + phone = win (kiambogo)
iPhone doormat (carolinabigblue)

Apparently-optional 3D Internet
Sketchlife (andypiperuk)
Virtual guidedog (carolinabigblue)
Cross reality – sensors and VW (heidigoseek)
Augmented reality starts becoming reality (kevinaires)

Other
Google Voice (US-only though!!) – (billsweeney)
IBM to provide core of UK biometric passport system (wideawakewesley)
Tech too cheap to meter, plan for abundance (epredator)
Bill Gates to stop hurricanes (wideawakewesley)… Does anyone else think this is a very, very bad idea??
MSFT vs Chrome (lx5)
Office 2010 in the cloud (gypsychk)
Swearing can make you feel better (!) (gypshychk)
Elf island, kids VW gaming for good (gypsychk)
Tesco supermarket API (lx5)
1979 iPod patent?! (gypsychk)
Pirate Bay to become a pay site (wideawakewesley)
Opening the Poken platform (andypiperuk)
18th century gadgetry (gypsychk)

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The Michael’s squeeze out one more show before the end of the year. With each of them taking a bit of well deserved time off with family and friends, we miss our new co-host Andy Piper, but we soldier on anyway (btw, Andy provided us with a ton of great tags to choose from). In the spirit of helping with the economic woes, we look at a SecondLife live music aggregator with links to where you can buy the music from the in world musicians. We then look at Hype Cycles, a cool new Laptop from Lenovo (but is it cool enough), Panasonic’s iPod killer (not really), Cisco’s Telepresence tools, an iPhone VNC, games, and the top 10 cars we want (AND WE WANT THEM NOW!!!). We wish everyone a healthy, outstanding, prospers, and exciting new year, and Don’t forget to tag it with “Dogear-Nation.”

Show Tags

Obligatory 3-D Internet
iTunes in SL
Greenies
SL hype cycle (is it recumbent?) — (Sweettt)

Mobile computing
Lenovo’s Dual Screen
Panasonic ipod
Nintendo DS
Cisco telepresence

Mac-a-rooni
Jaadu control your desktop from your iPhone
Jaadu review
Refurbished Apple TV
Copy & Paste for iPhone
Space Deadbeef

And other way-cool stuff
Expressway through the heart of a building
Cars we want!
Han Solo Foldo

Final Thoughts
Michael M – Have a great new year
Michael R – And Don’t forget to tag it — “Dogear-Nation”!!!

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