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Andy, Michael, and Michael enjoy an all-listener tag show… well, almost, we have to talk about Andy’s gloves again. Questions that could be answered in this show – Do you really need a netbook? Can Lenovo sell more PCs thanks to Virtual Worlds? What stage of Twitter acceptance are you at? What is your Claimr? And Twitter scoops the mainstream media – again.

Show Links
3D Internet
Business in virtual worlds — (epredator)
I want my M -3D -TV! — (jbrown523)

Social Networking
Facebook pulls the flame-broiled plug — (heidigoseek)
Hello, my name is dogearnation, and I’m a Twitter user.  Hi, Dogear Nation… — (ragtag_2)
Andy’s Klout rating

Mac-a-rooni and PC
Show us the glove
The three finger salute — (heidigoseek)
Android netbooks — (duckboxxer)

Grab Bag
NYT reader — (dbartek)
The fine print that’s fit to print — (ragtag_2)
Site for entrepreneurs — (epredator)
TwitPic of US Airways plan on the Hudson

Final Thoughts
Andy — A photo-graph — say no more! — (graham_alton) — iPhone app for tiltshift
Coldplay twittering away
Michael M — Obama’s Blackberry
Michael R — Vista’s all better now

Bonus links
Solargraphs — (tx5)
Multicore iPhone

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Michael and Michael get together via skype this week, while Michael R’s studio has pounding hammers and mystery sounds from the construction team outside. We address this week’s burning questions – is SecondLife movie worthy? Can Blind users benefit from a immersive 3D graphical environment? Is the iPhone an immersive virtual world environment? Is Apple stealing employees and patents from other companies? Is the Future Windows 7? Have you joined us on Friend Connect yet? These and many more questions are answered on this week’s Dogear-Nation. So don’t forget to keep tagging with “Dogear-Nation” on the various social bookmarking sites.

Obligatory 3D Internet
The future of media is now
Troops – the video
A bust even before having a chance to be a blockbuster
JenniCam
Virtual worlds support for the visually impaired
Network is the platform — (Phaedra)
iPhone gets unity

Mac-a-rooni
Apple sued over Apple TV, Airport Express and Mac
Windows beta 7

Working the Socialnet
Google Friend Connect
Best producers of short content in 2008
Twitter and how to be followed by other Twitterers — (ragtag_2)
Why brands should be on Twitter — (ragtag_2)

Final Thoughts
Michael M — Tried to give away basketball tickets via Twitter
Michael R — Year in pictures and Majel Barrett-Rodenberry passes away — (Phaedra)

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Michael and Michael welcome our new “official” co-host – Andy Piper, and then end up having to move the recording time this week to way too late in the evening. So hopefully Andy will be joining us next week. This week’s show has a great set of listener tags. We look at the revival of Second Life (really??), new technology in Forterra, a new Virtual World in Australia, out of body experiences in Sweden, and a finish off our Obligatory 3D internet section with a really big beer! As we move over to the Social Networking section, Duckboxxer helps us see ads on Twitter, while Twitter turns down a rumored $500m deal from Facebook, we learn what we don’t know about language immersion from cynicalicious while Pownce gets pwned when they are purchased by Six Apart, and we resolve with the real value of the Re-Tweet. Our Mac-a-rooni section begins with Vista users begging Microsoft not to make Windows 7 easy to user over the expense of power and functionality, Kevinaires sends us a link to a cool iPhone holder, and Matt Goerning taking on Apple users and Steve Jobs.

Show Links
Obligatory 3D Internet
Second Life’s Second Wind?
Forterra & IBM Unified Communications — (andypiperuk)
Foreterra & Lotus — (epredator)
Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop
body swapping — (twitterati)
Big Ad!

Social Networking
tweeterize — (duckboxxer)
tweeterize
Twitter tweets “thanks, but no thanks” to Facebook
iKnow — (Cynicalicious)
Pownce pwned
RT looking for a kidney transplant

Mac-a-rooni
Don’t make Windows7 too mac-like
Just mobile xtand — (kevinaires)
Mapple!

Final Thoughts
Michael M — Amazon iPhone app
Michael R — Customer Service is not dead

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