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Your friendly neighborhood podcasters are swinging back into action again with a new podcast for a new year — games at work. The inaugural episode 00001 (both in binary and base 10!) kicks off with your trio of hosts, Michael Martine, Andy Piper and Michael Rowe consider several games, from Foursquare to Waze to Oink to Square, and how the social interaction and competition among friends helps to keep the gamers coming back for more.

Games at Work goes back to the early roots of what brought your hosts together in the first place — a love of games and how the intersection with business and social technologies make them more than simple pastimes. The podcast will explore where games are being used for business results today and how existing games may be adapted to new ways of creating social, economic and other values.

We’d like to thank Zebes System for their awesome version of the MoonPatrol theme.

Your hosts are eager to interact with you via multiple paths — you can use 140 characters on Twitter, send an email or even a gamecenter friend request! Check us out at twitter.com/gamesatwork_biz .

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:13 — 9.4MB)

Back at full strength the Dogear Guys have a great big show for you. We enjoy a very full 3D Internet section this week, while trying not to die from 3D. Andy tells us why 3D is crap, even though he loves 3D worlds. Nokia and others give Apple some help in dealing with their attenna problems on the new iPhone 4. While Apple unveils their latest product – the iHand. Andy and Michael even get into a bit of a tussle over wireless network providers.

What’s cool?
Andy — Folding Matter and Dancing Paint
Michael R — Tim Burton’s Art
Michael M — You preserved my Battleship! 3D views of one of the 16 inch turrets

Obligatory 3-D Internet
3-D without the glasses epredator
3D video hazardous to your health wideawakewesley
3D can damage children’s eyes allerhed
Gulf oil spill in 3D epredator via lx5
Rezzable unifies Unity and OpenSim epredator

Mac-a-roni
How to hold a Nokia andypiperuk
Wriststrong bracelet to fix iPhone4 reception heidigoseek
Talk to the iHand! andypiperuk
Windows on iPhone heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
Coffee coupon for you, Buck, buda-buda-buda heidigoseek
6% of people consume 50% of mobile data heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Michael R — Internet is made up of cats
Andy — Help when Checking in your code
Michael M — Waze taps into Geo Tweets

bonus links
Why 3D is so 1950′s
The vSide – That music world Michael talked about
Get your Tomaccos here
It’s the Falcon!
Hippo Remote Pro

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:26 — 19.7MB)

Andy, Michael and Michael are together again this week and decide that the obligatory 3-D Internet section didn’t have any content this week, so we let it slide. Is it still obligatory? Come post comments on the blog and let us know…Eroding your electronic brand… Printing a new kidney… More augmented reality… and a ton of news links from Andy… All this and more on this week’s Dogear-Nation!

Thank you for all your tags this week. And if you can figure out the video game that Michael R talked about during the Tech-no-tronic section…comment on this week’s show.

What’s Cool
Andy — Bobba Bar
Michael R — You’ve been Googled!
Michael M — I see you!!

Tech-no-tronic
Dual screen laptop! – duckboxxer
Branded tablets – uncommonman
Printing money by printing organs – epredator
Arcade expressionism – heidigoseek
Web 2.0 expo – mobthink

Social Networkin’
AR Twitter location – wideawakewesley
More AR Twitter location – heidigoseek
Waze crowdsourcing game
Backfiring Rewards – Rickmans
Social Media – Rickmans
Management access to social media – Rickmans
Tired of Waving yet? – lx5
Is super-cali-frag-a-twitter search – lx5

Final thoughts
Andy — superfast news roundup

• Google DNS
• Google Dictionary
• Bing Crash
• YouTube 1080p and Feather
• LG Watch phone
• SquareUp – NB correction to what Andy said in the show, this is a new venture from Jack Dorsey from Twitter, not Biz Stone.
• Waze
• Minimalist Google search page
• translated Google search

Michael R — What’s TWiT worth to you?
Michael M — Lego Rock Band

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:06 — 58.5MB)