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While Andy begins his quest to find our one Chinese listener, we welcome Kelly Yeoh (@kelisha on twitter) on to the show to talk give us the southern hemisphere’s perspective of our listener tags. And boy do we have a bunch of great tags this week: glue, snow, web, games, and books are all on the menu today. So stick around and enjoy the show!

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What’s cool?
Kelly — Goosing the search engine game and Geek Girl Dinners
Michael R. — Indie Game Challenge
Michael M — Mary Poppins Principle

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Australia’s 2010 election andypiper
Augmented reality object glue: junaio glue epredator
Sketchup to SL — sketchy? jtonline
Project Snowstorm epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Higher IQ = < Zzzzs (at least on weekdays) gypsychk
Design is history bradicle
Apps are suburbia, the web is downtown duckboxxer

Mac-a-rooni
Comic books from your video games mobthink

Social Networkin’
just look at all the colors! Is the web dead? bluebus
Read Ayn Rand heidigoseek
Twifficiency heidigoseek
Twournal — book it Lion-o

Final thoughts
Kelly — Andy, I hope I did you proud!
Michael M — I need to shower and shave!
Michael R — Great to have the different perspective on the show

bonus links

Outliers
GeoCities
Comic Strip Aggregator

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The guys are excited to have our master tagger ePredator (or as some may know him – Ian Hughes) on the show this week. And while ePred is best known for his work within the 3D Internet, our tags this week focus on cool tech and social networking capabilities, with a slight diversion to legal action be brought against Apple. We also indulge in our inner geek with the new Thor trailer, even if some of us weren’t able to view it during the show – Michael R. assures us all that the link is still good (having tested it during the editing of the show). So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

What’s cool?
Ian / epred — Manchester Fablab and New Chairman of British Computing Society group for Animation and Game Development
Andy — Presentation about Social Software Adoption in the Workplace
Michael R — IT Crowd Series 4 Coming to the US
Michael M — Burningman visualzation

Obligatory 3-D Internet
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Tech-no-tronic
AR drone (not the vuvuzela kind) – allerhed
Forget the OLPC — how about a $35 tablet – gypsychk
London Zipbike Locations – bluebus

Mac-a-rooni
iPad doesn’t work like a book? – heidigoseek
iPad owners are selfish elites – billsweeney1
Users now free to break out of jail, on the iPhone – heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
HRH Flickerstream – gypsychk
Life, don’t talk to me about life – epredator

Final thoughts
Michael M — Michael Loves the Loved Game
Ian — Really irritated by Bejeweled Blitz and Michael Jackson Zombie removed from PvZ
Andy — MS Street Slide and Microsoft can still Innovate
Michael R — THOR! – we hope the link still works

bonus links
Gamestorming
Star Wars trench run
#wookieleaks meme
Experts question the $35 tablet

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While Andy jet sets back home from a week long conference, the Michaels take the opportunity to record a show at our favorite coffee shop Bean Traders. With a bit of cool jazz in the background, we talk about a great set of tech-no-tronic tags and ponder how much longer Facebook can survive with all the privacy issues which keep surfacing.

What’s cool?
Michael M — Shameless IBM gaming promotion
Michael R — Cool gaming Beta on the iPad

Obligatory 3-D Internet
3d printing replacement parts epredator

Tecn-no-tronic
Apartment Mech lx5
Google joining the ebook par-tay heidigoseek
Airspace reboot post ashpocolypse uncommonman
Expo Shanghai lx5
Happy geekmas and merry nerd year heidigoseek
Upcoming Google I/O allerhed

Mac-a-roonie
AT&T gets 6 more months of iPhone exclusivity billsweeney1
Why Apple Hates Flash

Social Networkin’
Social Marketing – so bad, it’s good! bluebus
Facebook 2010 lx5
Eroding Privacy Policy lx5
Bosses should embrace Facebook gamesfanum

Final thoughts
Michael R – great to do a live show every once in a while
Michael M – He Love’s PowerPoint

Bonus Links
Saturday Night Live – National Public Radio Reference

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This week is a very special episode (kinda like an after school special for those of you who remember those). We have the emerging technology class from Villanova University as guests and talk about some of their tags. Michael and Michael try to keep this Wildcats under control, while Andy is tucked away in his bed, dreaming of sugar plums. Frequent guest Sandy Kearney is stuck in the room with our guests, and together we all have a great time.

What’s Cool
Michael R — CS5 Amazing new tricks
Michael M — Gaga for Google
Sandy K and The Class — cool to be doing a podcast

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented reality by sbnova13
Virtual goods revenue growing by leaps & bounds< dbmurdoch
Bonus Tag
Lego Universe

Tech-no-tronic
Smart Phones risin’ dbmurdoch
Augment your windshield dbmurdoch again?
Flexible implantable medical devices vscohen
Running rings to eliminate wires vscohen
Zauberkugeln für Krebs (magic bullets for cancer) lyndamigliaccio
Iron Man jpjhack
Bending light darknbitter

Social Networkin’
US Census 2010 visualization chris

Final thoughts
Michael R — Cool Bio Bike
Sandy K — thanks to the hosts and the class!
Michael M — thanks to the class

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Back to full strength for the start today, but we do lose Michael M. due to conflicts midway thru the show. We go back to the Future and talk about Linden Lab’s new SecondLife Viewer Version 2.0, which comes to us from many of our listeners. We also look at how European privacy and media laws are starting to impact Google and social media sites. Thanks for all the great tags this week!

What’s Cool
Andy — Flower Power Lights
Michael R — Roadie
Michael M — Lego Mindstorms robot solves Rubics cube under 12 seconds via lx5

Obligatory 3-D Internet
SL following Web Browser metaphor – mattsimpson
SL goes 2.0 with webby viewer – epredator
Sneak peek at new SL viewer
Linden hosting a registry of SL viewers – andypiper
Syntensity 3D game builder for the masses – epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Awesome Cast Wraps – uncommonman
Italian Google privacy case – billsweeney1
Facebook opens Hamburg office, now under German data privacy laws – rickmans
NASA’s Lunar Electric Rover iPhone game – allerhed
Google Buzz and Parental Controls – wideawakewesley
Google buys reMail application, removes from appstore
Mozilla Ubiquity no more (or is it?) – heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Andy — Opportunistic Development for Ubuntu
Michael R — Twitter perceptions of Google Buzz and Effie’s Designer Cakes
Michael M — IBM as a digital dancing elephant via lx5

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