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Michael, Andy, and Michael welcome special guest Matt Simpson from Sweettt to talk about the segregation of adult content within Second Life. Michael M. would have talked more about the conference he was at last week, but then he would have had to kill us. Is shameless self promotion on Twitter OK? Is it OK for Amazon to remove books from your Kindle? Can you build a token economy within Social Networks? Is Best Buy being fair with their Web vs. in store pricing? Are luggage handlers, mis-handling your luggage? All these questions and more will be addressed this week on Dogear-Nation!

Thank you for your tags: Sweettt, kevinaires, epredator, gypsychk, uncommonman, wideawakewesley, lx5, rickmans, and jtonline

What’s Cool
Andy — iSnapShotter and Photoshop Like App for iPhone
Michael R — WoW the Movie has a Director
Michael M — Gaming for Peace
Matt — ebook reader by Plasticlogic (sweettt) and Catching Kindle (sweettt)

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Long Tail for Virtual Worlds (kevinaires)
Babylon SLURL
Castle Wolfenstein 3D source code available – man the parapets! (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
Wakey-Wakey watch (gypsychk)
Swpppt — sound of whispernet taking books *off* your kindle (uncommonman)
Spotify adds 2m more tracks (wideawakewesley)

Social Networkin’
House tweet party (lx5)
Monetizing twitter (lx5)
When did you join Twitter? (kevinaires)
Me me me me (all about me!) (rickmans)
Another bad twitter brand story (rickmans)
Note to self: don’t piss off a musician (uncommonman)

Final thoughts
Matt — Singingbowl
Andy — Dogs Who Twitter
Michael R — Image-based Search (previously mentioned on Episode 71)
Michael M — Temporal photos

Links we didn’t get to
Attack of the 50 foot twitter! (wideawakewesley)
Gardeners tend their social networks too! (jtonline)

Bonus links
A different kind of TV Remote Control
Comic Themes for Google
Dave Carroll
Andy’s blog post on 140 characters

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Andy, Michael, and Michael are back for 2009! In our first episode of the year, we look at some great videos (WoW and Mac vs. PC), make up trends from only two data points, Apple Rumors abound, Walmart is visualized, and our former guest Michael Ackerbauer helps us kill ideas.

We are looking forward to seeing more of your tags this year, so don’t forget to tag with “Dogear-Nation”. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter at:
Andy – http://twitter.com/andypiper
Michael M – http://twitter.com/carolinabigblue
Michael R – http://twitter.com/michaelrowe01
Dogear Nation – http://twitter.com/dogearnation

Show Links

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Craft of War
(bonus link – The future of Blind)
Princeton departs from SL
epredator’s epredictions
Sim on demand

Mac-a-rooni
Mac vs PC
Snow Leopard screenshots
Apple’s last Macworld

The Future of UI is now
New form factor for iPod touch
Rethink your desktop with Bumptop
The rise of Social Media in the UK (updated with new / working URL)

gaming interlude
Wii Music
The Force Unleashed

Data visualization
Walmart across America
OMG – WTF spectrum

Random stuff
Rating websites!
(bonus link – Parental Guidance advised)
SSL cert hack
How to kill an idea
Merry Little Christmas

Final Thoughts
Michael R – Play Auditorium
Andy P – Podcast Studio Mixer and Moved site to Blubrry PowerPress, let us know if you see any problems
Michael M – Waiting for new Apple toys after Mac World Expo (Apple TV announcement?)

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Michael and Michael welcome back Andy Piper to the show – our social networking expert. We look at the addictive qualities of games and social networking tools thanks to listener Kevin Aires. We investigate if older people are scared of technology from listener Heidigoseek. ToastyMel helps us all become Twitter Stalkers. And listener Adreich muses over Apple’s fear of the other fruits like – Blackberry.

Show Tags

can stop anytime I want
Games to outsell music — (kevinaires)
Compulsive gamers not addicts — (kevinaires)
Don’t trust anyone under 30 — (andypiper)
Scared of technology? — (Heidigoseek)

Social Networkin’ on the tiny silver screen
YouTube goes wide screen — (andypiper)
Kvetch — (Heidigoseek)
Stalking — (toastymel)
Kwout — (kevinaires)

Mac-a-rooni
iPhone advert dropped — (kevinaires)
Apple approves iPhone app by mistake
Apple afraid of RIM? — (Adreich)
Apple developing always on status indicators — (andypiper)

Politics & such
Innovation Agenda
Delete your past

Obligatory Virtual World
Reuters quits second life
SL Reuters Embedded Journalist

Final Thoughts
Andy Piper – HomeCamp!
Michael R – Off the Grid?
Michael M – Going to Rain?

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Michael and Michael enjoy a great set of listener tags from – Heidigoseek, dbartek, andypiper, tweetweek, sweettt, uncommonman, and toastymel. The show includes helpful Google tools, Treats for your Tweets, fun new iPhone Games, and a whole bunch of Soul Sucking Video Games. We also visit the demise of Google’s virtual world Lively, and end up with some deep thoughts around Women and IT. So don’t forget to tag your favorite sites this week with “dogear-nation”.

Searching for love (in all the wrong places)
Let Me Google That for You –> (Heidigoseek) 
Peer to Patent –> (dbartek)
Twiturly –> (andypiperuk)

Wattsamatta you
Papa John Facebook –> (tweetweek) 
Bojangles on Twitter

Social networkin’
Online time is good for teens –> (andypiperuk)
Tweet Week
Most memorable new product launch –> (tweetweek)
Jellycar
ZiiBii

Obligatory 3D Internet
Obama’s net neutrality (but is he chaotic good?)
Lively shutdown
Google earth (ancient rome)
Soul Sucking Video Games –> (matt simpson)
2KSports NBA 2K9 
MS Flight Simulator
Virtual World timeline 

Mac-a-rooni
Gascubby
Gloves w/removable fingertips –> (andypiperuk)
iPhone update: Categorzies –> (andypiperuk)

Women and IT
What has driven women out of IT degrees –> (hedigoseek)
Women against fantasy sports –> (toastymel) 
Smallball

Final thoughts
Michael R — Monty Python channel
Michael M — Rack-a-node (uncommonman)

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Michael and Michael welcome special guest Sandy Kearney on the show this week. Sandy is a founding member of IBM’s 3D Internet team and ThinkTank3D.org. Michael M. is on his yearly pilgrimage to South Carolina, so that his Z can hang out with it’s siblings, at the BMW Roadster Homecoming. We have a ton of great tags this week, thanks to all our listeners who have been busy on their tagging.

Social Media
Does Social Media Scale
Running across Azeroth
Porting Twitter to Ubiquity
What is ubiquity

Phone
iPhone 3g No Hardware problem
Silly Phone Packs
Cell Phone sign language

Design
Math Dimensions
Motion Capture
Interview
Interior Designs
Textured Graphics in a Flash

Automotive / Green
Electric Cars

Final Thoughts
Michael M – Aufwiedersehen to BMW Roadster Homecoming.
Sandy K – Future guests
Michael R – Home network outage!

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