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With a full complement of hosts, our friend Matt Simpson from Sweettt.com joins us to review the news of the week, and we comment on the big topics from last year. Unlike some of our competitors, this podcast is unbreakable! (ooops… did I just say that live on air?)

What’s Cool
Matt — photo of the day and CoolIris
Andy — a different take on Tetris
Michael R — oldtech new again
Michael M — drake equation

Obligatory 3-D Internet
100 virtual tours (epredator)
playing in virtual worlds (epredator)
AR helping mechanics (wideawakewesley)
LEGO Universe (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Reigniting the patent discussion (lx5 / ragtag_2)
Unbreakable phone breaks (billsweeney1) – also on Failblog (andyp)
blessed blackberry (lx5)
third and the seventh art & architecture (z303 /epredator)

Mac-a-rooni
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Social Networkin’
Monetizing Twitter on a personal level (billsweeney1)
Privacy? No Problem at Facebook! (heidigoseek)
map-a-rooni google to upgrade billboards in street view (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts / best of 2009
Michael R — augmented reality really coming to the surface
Andy — location based internet – sharing location
Matt — the Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
Michael M — – social computing / games driving more collaboration example: www.waze.com

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Our good friend Matt Simpson (formerly a regular on Dogear Nation) has started a podcast called Sweettt, co-hosted by another friend of the show (and Internet non-email celebrity), Luis Suarez. I was listening to the latest episode the other night and spotted a Dogear Nation reference, so I thought I’d mention it over here.

Sweettt is a conversational podcast where Luis and Matt discuss various topics – it’s a very different style to DN and for me it took some getting used to, but the insights that the guys come up with are really very interesting. In the most recent episode released on the site, they talk about social software within the enterprise… and how corporate firewalls can affect the ways that people converse online. In particular Matt talks about Dogear Nation’s transition from the inside to the outside of a corporate firewall (about 10 minutes in to the episode), so it may be of interest to those of you wanting to learn a little bit more about the history of the podcast.