Dogear Nation

Michael Rowe and Matt Simpson take some time to wrap up the year with special pre-recorded sections from Michael Martine, who missed his first EVER episode of Dogear-Nation. The guys list their top innovations and wish lists for 2007, and Predictions for 2008.

Fun discussions:
Simpsonizer - http://www.simpsonizeme.com/

Top 3 Innovations:
Michael Rowe - Green Datacenters - Monitoring and Visualization by Michael Osias at IBM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j65RkMS9EGY
iClone - Favorite tool for creating machinima - http://www.reallusion.com
LOTR Online - Great visual game, good game play, familure setting - http://www.lotro.com/

Matt Simpson - The New Dawn of Solar - http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/green/item_59.html

Wish List Items:
Matt Simpson -
Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 HD - http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/pioneer-kuro-pdp-5080/4505-6482_7-32476901.html?tag=pop Bose® Lifestyle® 35 DVD home entertainment system - http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=ls35_dvd_index
Ultrasone Edition 9 - http://www.headphonenews.com/2006/10/08/ultrasone-edition-9-the-best-headphones-in-the-world/

Michael Martine -
Rock band — http://www.rockband.com/
A squeezebox — http://www.slimdevices.com/
A delorean — http://www.delorean.com/

Tops for Next year:
Michael Rowe -
2008 will be the year that VW become “real”
2008 will be the year that the iPhone becomes valuable and usable
2008 will be the year that Dogear-Nation gets better audio tools

Final Thoughts:
Michael Rowe - Never “EVER” leave it to your buddies to edit your voice
Matt Simpson - Stay Tuned for Michael
Michael Martine - Looking forward to 2008 of fun with Dogear-Nation and Check out Sports Sync Radio http://www.sportsyncradio.com/

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 33 - Where are you Michael? [39:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (504)

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: Gaming, Green, Machinima, Podcast, Solar Power, TV, Virtual Worlds, Year-End

Michael, Michael, and Matthew come back together as a full crew. The team of clueless hosts talk about the “Back Button” in the new OnRez SecondLife viewer, Corporate iPhone usage, Streaming media and surprising new features in Lotus Sametime 8.0.

Virtual Worlds Forum London -
VWF Site - http://virtualworldsforum.com/
Podcast - http://virtualworldsforum.com/content.html
Cross World Browser - http://www.blink3dworld.com/ And http://www.pelicancrossing.com/

Electric Sheep and CSI New York -
New Viewer - http://viewer.onrez.com
SL Open Source Client - http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/second_life_client_software_goes_open_source/

Other worlds -
Google Worlds - http://www.isde5.org/

The phone which will not be named -
iPhone for Notes - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2563

Mechanical Improvements -
Fastcompany Car Conversions - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/the-evolution-of-diesel.html
Mercedes Bluetec - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueTec
Interesting Makethings site - http://makezine.com/ and http://www.online-zombie-games.com/
Karl Cassel’s Voice on your answering machine - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100708

Interesting News -
Microsoft Invest in Facebook - http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6740
Musicovery - http://www.musicovery.com/
Orb 2.0 - https://mycast.orb.com/orb/html/login.html

Final Thoughts -
Michael Martine - Guitar hero 3 and Leopard launch
Matthew Simpson - I don’t have enough storage space in my house.
Michael Rowe - Leopard should be at home for me check out Channel Flip - http://www.channelflip.com/

 

 Dogear-Nation - Episode 28 - Clueless [36:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (19)

written by MichaelRowe \\ tags: 3dinternet, cars, channelflip, csi, electricsheep, facebook, interoperability, mercedes, orb2.0, TV, virtualworlds