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The Michael’s welcome special guest Dave Kamalsky from Linden Lab to the show. We have a great section on virtual worlds including both the good, the bad, and the really ugly. Andy is traveling this week, but should be back with us next week. For those who celebrate, Happy Easter Weekend.

What’s Cool
Dave — iPad cabinet
Michael R — First Flight
Michael M — wii-tastic

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Understanding Islam through virtual worlds comic book format – michaelrowe01
Are virtual worlds over? – ranoka
Metaplace closing
Vitality
Forterra sold to SAIC
There.com shut down
Venuegen out of public beta – carolinabigblue
12 MMORPG failures – epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Welcome to our new (you get the picture) – phil_hartman
Ethical design – lx5

Mac-a-rooni
Apple vs Predator – epredator
Scott-e-vest ipad ready clothing

Social Networkin’
TV dinner
Facebook privacy changes – rickmans & andypiperuk
Facebook bigger than Google – andypiperuk

Final thoughts
Dave — no thoughts
Michael R — Snoop’s Luke Skywalker Shoes via @billhiggins on Twitter
Michael M — Hit the Big Button

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Special guest Kirk Nelson (@ArcatechOEM) joins Michael M and Andy to discuss Poken, Rapleaf and sharing identities. Everything gets recorded out of order. Andy stays up late fixing a bunch of audio capture problems. The resulting masterwork can only fairly be described as… the Frankenstein Episode!

Taggers this week
Thanks to kiambogo, jtonline, kevinaires, epredator, billsweeney, comcipher, duckboxxer, blowdart1, and lx5. You are all awesome – sorry we couldn’t hit every tag!

What’s Cool?
Andy — Apollo 11 Workshop Haynes manual
Michael M — mobile burger grill

Social Networkin’
Rapleaf aggregating public social networking data (kiambogo)
Thunderbird Rapleaf plugin (kiambogo)
Contxts (kiambogo)
The rise of the mighty Poken (carolinabigblue)
Nabaztag, nano:ztag, ztamp:s (carolinabigblue)
Meetingwave (billsweeney1)
Talent poaching (lx5)
The pros & cons of URL shorteners (andypiper)
Web design – an open letter to AA.com (lx5)

Obligatory 3D Internet
Prior 3-D Internet art (andypiper)
New glasses-based UI (kevinaires)

Tech-no-tronic
Wii Vitality Sensor (andypiper)
Project Natal (kevinaires)
Project Natal news coverage including “Milo” (andypiper)

Final thoughts
Michael M — Stealth computing netbook (via jtonline)
Andy — Voices of Lara Croft video (via “happymaker” @SilviaEmilia)

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It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and the Michael’s welcome back Phaedra Boinodiris to the secret padded lair of Dogear-Nation. In honor of ITLAPD we decided to have an all Pirate show, focusing on 3D, Security, Music, Games, and Social Networking Pirates. Also a big thank you to Andy Piper who has done major improvements to the Dogear-Nation website, and Christopher Mifsud from Icarus Studio’s whose interview wraps up the show from Virtual Worlds ’08 in Los Angeles.

This weeks Piratical Tags

3D Pirates
3D Internet tool from kiambogo
VW on an iPhone – Icarus

Pirate Security
Sarah Palin’s email is hacked
Deletionpedia
Spore’s DRM

Pirate music
DJ Hero
Ideas for other potential games in the ‘Hero’ genre

• Tuba Hero
• Broadcast News Hero
• Hat Designer Hero
• Global Warming Hero

iTunes Genius from andypiperuk

Pirate games
For the iphone — flying simulator X-Plane 9
For the wii — Star Wars Force Unleashed super game

Pirate Social Networking
Blur of Social Media and tools from andypiperuk

Pirate Final Thoughts
Michael M — Durham Bulls Blues Festival
Michael R — ITLAPD
Phaedra — Arrgh!  Need so solve DRM.   Waiting for Global Warming Hero

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This week we welcome back Andy Piper from our UK contingent of Dogear-Nation. This week we focus on Robots, Games, Phones, and Transitions. This week’s launch titles from E3 for the Wii Motion Fit reduces the potential of burning your face when beach fencing. Will Sony’s MAG suck all the phone out of MMO Gaming? Spore is bigger than all of creation! Are we all bored of the iPhone 3G news, yet? Andy actually bought his on the launch day. Are location based services the real reason behind the GPS in the iPhone? Why does the 3G phone need 802.11 connection for iTunes purchase?

Community Volunteers
Lego Robots
Excite Technology Camps for Girls

E3 Readout
Wii Motion Plus Add On – Worst Demo Ever
Wii Music
Sony MAG
More Spore creatures species then real life

iPhone
The Mouse is Dead
Next Gen Navigation
HP New Touch Screen Computer Ads
iPhone Killer App – Pandora

Metavangelist Down!
Roo Reynolds takes new role at the BBC

Final Thoughts
Michael M – Seeing New Niece Today!
Andy P – hmmm.. Check out Exposure App on iPhone
Michael R – Kindle version 2.0 only has color on the outside

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This week Matt Simpson and Michael Rowe take time to have a little phone with listener tags. But before that begins, a quick review of virtual reality verses Real reality, takes the guys into a nice discussion of the necessity of physics.Show Links:Fredic Birthday – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance#SynopsisObligatory 3D Internet Section:Virtual reality is Real Reality – Digado – http://digado.nl/virtual-reality-is-real-reality.htmlRay Kurzwell at Ted- http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/38Howard Rheingold – Way-New Collaboration – http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/216Innovation Section: Scott Innovation Insights Tag – http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/anthony/2008/02/sony_winning_the_wrong_war.html?cm_mmc=npv-_-listserv-_-FEB_2008-_-InnovEntreWii Outsells PS3 – 4 to 1 – http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/28/brawl-effect-wii-outsells-ps3-4-to-1-in-japan/Shameless Self Promotion Section: Dogear-Nation – Evil Episode 29 – The Evil Episode – http://www.dogearnation.com/2007/11/06/dogear-nation-episode-29-the-evil-episode/Beehive yourself – http://beehive.cambridge.ibm.com/beehive/events/?id=ff808081182e32e0011832d9073d50d45 Reasons to Give Points as Incentive – http://beehive.cambridge.ibm.com/beehive/hive5s/?id=ff80808115d73edd0115faed47696fbcAndy’s Dogear Nation Widget for the Mac – http://jumpgate.homelinux.net/random/DogearNation.wdgt.zipFinal Thoughts:Top 20 Oxymorons – http://www.stonerguy.com/2008/02/27/the-top-20-oxymorons/

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