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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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:27 — 8.4MB)

Thanks to ePredator, Michael R. spends a significant amount of time talking about World of Warcraft, while Michael M. wants to play MMO’s by himself. Andy reiterates that Matt needs a Mac. We are all incredibly excited by LX5’s link on molecular printing — Here comes the Star Trek replicator — way cool! Andy reminds us, if you make a website, don’t loop your midi file… it’s really really annoying. We also have started a Dogear-Nation wave on google wave, so let us know if you have a Wave account and we’ll add you to this wave.

Thanks for all the great tags this week: epredator, mattsimpson, lx5, heidigoseek, rickmans, phil_hartman, and wideawakewesley.

What’s Cool
Andy — Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 Karmic Koala on Acer Aspire One 110L
Michael R — Emotiv headset Update and Headset in pieces
Michael M — It’s Gobbledygook!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
MMORPG scaling (epredator)
Thriller in SL (MattSimpson)

Tech-no-tronic
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot — molecular printing (lx5)
Tiny living room (heidigoseek)
Why is Wave so complicated? (rickmans)
Pulp Fiction as a Google Wave – NSFW (via Twitter – wideawakewesley)
Temporary disposable email (phil_hartman)
Chronological email (wideawakewesley)
Mind to mind communication (epredator)
Dyson bladeless fan (lx5)

Win-a-rooni
Which version of Win 7 do you need

Final thoughts
Andy — Still waiting to Choose what Version of Windows I need
Michael R — Google hides the Usenet
Michael M — Google Starting Book Store

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:46 — 7.8MB)

Andy and Michael soldier on without Michael Martine this week, but Michael, ever the professional, drops us a few inserts to make sure that he’s cool enough. This week’s tags are a great collection of technology and geekiness including – Spheres, spiral galaxies, and assassins. Thanks to all of you who tag, and come meet us on October 23rd if you are in the RTP area of North Carolina as we do our Windows House Party.

What’s Cool
Andy — Magic Wand
Michael R — MythHackers
Michael M — Red Shirt Cologne And Star Wars at National Mall in Washington, DC

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Spherical Virtual World (epredator)
Augmented Reality showing Twin Towers (wideawakewesley)
Augmented Reality apps to buy now! (kevinaires)
Unlock content by snapping a picture of a logo (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
MS-Mouse on multitouch (wideawakewesley)
Netflix Prize awarded (lxs)
3-D Stellar wiki (Philip Hartman)

Social Networkin’
GPS Assassins (Philip Hartman)
(Bonus)Halting State by Charles
Top collaboration tools that aren’t Google Wave (Rick Mans)
Analysis of leaked/weak passwords (wideawakewesley)

Final thoughts
Andy — Micro Men on BBC4
Michael R — Emotiv Headset – Developers Kit!!
Michael M — Everything’s L$10 and here’s a voucher

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:59 — 9.2MB)

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We must be getting closer to Halloween, since we have death and undead on our minds. In our 3-D Internet section, we have people living out their lives in robotic forms. In our Tech-no-tronic section, we have the ability to will our Twitter account to someone after we die (could this end up causing a bit of Ghost Tweeting?). In our Win-A-Rooni section, we have Microsoft Windows’ attempt at rebirth with Windows 7 and house parties. And finally, in our Social Networking section, ma.gnolia comes back from the dead with a new invite-only social bookmarking tool. I think it’s time to play with the undead and head over to World of Warcraft!

What’s Cool
Andy — Lego t-shirt
Michael R — Heads up GPS on iPhone
Michael M — Augmented Reality and Bionic Eye, The future mashups are bleeding into the 3-D Internet.

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Linden Speaks at Metanomics Show (epredator)
Linden Lab says SecondLife is Huge! (kevinaires)
Surrogates (wideawakewesley)
Business users who don’t get it — doomed to failure (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Living will for your digital assets (lx5)
Fitbit launched (kevinaires)

Win-a-rooni
Host your own Windows 7 House Party! (lx5)
In da House (uncommonman)
Dogear-Nation’s Windows 7 House Party
Zune OLED screen outshines iPod and Video

Social Networkin’
Magnolia’s ba-ack! – Sorta (heidigoseek)
Visualization for local twitter trends (heidigoseek)

Final thoughts
Andy — Apture (rucsb) Checking Facebook during a burglary and Poken for Business
Michael R — Evidently not playing enough WoW
Michael M — Honda’s Segway-like Unicycle (via kevinaires)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:30 — 8.9MB)