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Andy and Michael M take you through the Interwebs, ruminating on your tags, setting a Dogearnation.com record for the longest “What’s cool?” section ever.  Going from consoles to kiosks, Andy and Michael talk about how the emerging social networking capabilities are providing the ability to mix the real world and the virtual in ways that were predicted by Neil Stephenson in Snow Crash.  Facebook privacy settings loom large (again!) with some nice visualizations for how the default privacy settings have evolved over the years, and upstarts such as Diaspora are quickly raising seed capital.  Will FB be the next MySpace, or will the new applications and interfaces propel Facebook to even higher heights?  Has Augmented Reality faded?  How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

What’s cool?
Andy P – tweeting xbox won on Raffle.it
Michael M – Notebook 3.0
Obligatory 3-D Internet
3D Content Marketspace lx5
3D Internet in a browser

Tech-no-tronic
Omek Interactive Interface epredator

Mac-a-roonie
iPad printing to come michaelrowe01
Adobe brings ad to a gunfight
Apple //e to iPad interface “like Wall-e connecting to Eve” jtonline

Social Networkin’
Diesel Cam brings Facebook to the PoS wideawakewesley
Evolution of FB Privacy visualization michaelrowe01
Matt McKeon article on FB privacy visualization
Privacy-Centric Social Networking heidigoseek
Why hasn’t Location hit mainstream? allerhed

Final thoughts

Andy Piper it slices, it dices, um, people…
Michael M  Betty White on SNL tag via michaelrowe01

bonus links

ubuntu 10.0.4 lucid lynx
topcoder
mechanical turk
Facebook facts infographic
Facebook login security enhancements

Location, location, location
Neil Stephenson “the Street”
Launchdays Durham
Tyler’s Taproom Durham, NC Foursquare special
Brightkite
Dopplr
Google Latitude

Can get these services in the UK, but not in the US
BBC One
Spotify

Can get these services in the US, but not in the UK
Hulu
Pandora
Rhapsody

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It’s a black, black Friday as the Michaels both enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend and Andy rambles his way through the tags on his own.

Obligatory 3D Internet

Skape | Building information modelling for major UK cities – online (epredator)

Procedural Inc. – 3D Modeling Software for Urban Environments (epredator)

Augmented reality rig that turns you into a character in a third-person game – Boing Boing (wideawakewesley) and Avatar Machine (and Wes’ podcast Weekly Geekly)

Future Tech / Technotronic

Teleportation (IBM Research) (phil_hartman)

F.lux: – ergonomic tool for working at night on your computer (lx5)

Gaming stuff

Microsoft patents in-game guide system (epredator)

British intelligence spooking Xbox Live – Xbox 360 News at GameSpot (epredator)

Lunar Lander (epredator) and Roo’s Shift Run Stop podcast

Non-gaming stuff

IBM n.Fluent Translation Tool with a Human Touch (lx5) and IBM Dogear

Is Wikipedia maxed out? (rickmans)

Choose your own adventure visualization (lx5)

The week in space / the year in space (michaelrowe01)

Martian landscapes (michaelrowe01)

Fun

Life In Latin (rickmans)

Final What’s Cool Thought Thing

Trinity – Help!
and Lego Matrix

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Michael, Andy, and Michael are all back together again, and have a blast dealing with all your tags. This week’s tech heavy show gives us plenty of excitement, including more eye-ball stories to keep Michael M. happy. (Keep tagging great tags about sticking things in your eyes.). We also welcome new tagger Bradicle.

What’s Cool
Andy — Roocast
Michael R — Supporting Space Science!
Michael M — Text to speech / lane guidance

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Space invaders in 3D – heidigoseek

Tech-no-tronic
Dashing through the wifi halls – duckboxxer
The wifi gift that keeps on giving – lx5
Eyewriter – The Story – bradicle
Eyewriter source code – andypiper
Eyewriter – The site
Quantum Physics made relatively (heh) simple – phil_hartman
E-waste Guiyu (Where our stories end up) – gypsychk
Cool capital – phil_hartman
Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers – SarahAires

Mac-a-rooni
RFID on iPhone rumor – heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
Cream then jam – jtonline

Final thoughts
Andy — Original DOOM available & multiplayer – vintage video maker
Michael R — AT&T Microcell
Michael M — sousaphone!

Michael on The Field

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:08 — 9.9MB)