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After some major user issues with talkshoe Michael, Michael, and Andy do our much hyped Windows 7 launch party. We thank the team over at BeanTraders coffee shop for allowing us to record the show with a live group of listeners. Even though this was our Windows 7 party show, our great listener tags gave us some great 3D internet and Tech-no-tronic topics. Keep on tagging!

Andy joins us remotely -

Andy Via Skype

Win7-a-rooni
Windows7 hotter than the Nimbus2000!
Windows 7 Whopper
Linus Torvalds – Windows7 get a big thumbs up
IBM teams up with Ubuntu (ragtag_2)
Trust me Mac ad (carolinabigblue)

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented Collaboration in Mixed Environments (ACME) – watch out for that virtual anvil! (uncommonman)
IBM, Nokia and VTT — virtual meetings in physical spaces
Cisco’s 19,000 people can’t be wrong – gaming and virtual reality (epredator)
‘Explodes’ off page (wideawakewesley)
Total Engagement (epredator)
Hacking iphone for true AR (heidigoseek)

Tech-no-tronic
Taste test search engines – you be the judge (lx5)
Broadband in a backpack (wideawakewesley)
Al Franken mobile satellite uplink
Hacking the weather — give someone else a blizzard (gypsychk)
You can lend a book to a crook or a schnook and get it back without a hook — if you use a nook!

Social Networkin’
Sellin’ Tweets to Bing & Google (heidigoseek)
Add a dash of fun (lx5)
Mary Poppins Principle

Final thoughts
Andy — Shiny new Apple things
Michael R — Bean Traders
Michael M — Bluetooth Banana

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Michael, Michael, and Andy welcome special guest Kelly Drahzal, who doesn’t have a twitter weather station at home. Our 3D Internet section is all about augmented reality videos, ads and design. Michael R. is positive that we’ve seen the Mini Cooper ad before; however, our bad show notes don’t help him find the prior episode – perhaps our listeners can help. We once again dig into Twitter and it’s impact on current culture thanks to The Daily Show – with Jon Stewart. And then wrap up the show discussing the new Kindle and the new Kindle App for the iPhone, while Andy gripes about it’s availability in the UK. Has Amazon finally gotten the Kindle right by moving to multiple platforms?

What’s Cool
Shave your head for Charity — Kelly
Episode 3 of Kindle Podcast — Michael R
Twittering Weather station — Andy
Hardee’s Ad Generator — Michael M

Obligatory 3-D Internet
World Builder — (epredator)
Unfolding 3-D worlds — (kevinaires)
Mini ad springs into 3-D
Mini roof designer

Social Networkin’
A Twitter montage — (lbenitez3000)
What the hash!?! — (adreich)

Tech-no-rama
The revolution is now — (kiambogo)
An iPhone Kindle app — (heidigoseek)
Calibre – eBook Helper

Final Thoughts
Michael R — Big basketball game coming up!
Andy — I need to Sort out my Calendar
Kelly — Thank you for having me (follow Kelly on Twitter!)
Michael M — Will Blythe’s book “To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry “

Bonus links
Mini roof gallery

Didn’t get to these great links today — thanks for the tags!
Apple is techno-non-grata for the Gates kids — (kiambogo)
UI design — (comcipher)
More MSFT UI design futures — (epredator)
Why the Japanese hate the iPhone — (huskiesct)

Next Week’s Guest
We have a potential – really special guest — next week… follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dogearnation

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