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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

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Michael, Michael and Matt have a blast talking about social networks today. Google drives Open Handset Alliance and Android Developer Challange, will this open up the cell phone for Mashups and portability? Yahoo and Google are focusing on Social Networks, again, with inbox 2.0. Will this change the way you react to the flood of emails? And how can you have a bit of fun with surgery – Check out our final inks – From John Moore.

Google’s Phone Play:
Android — http://code.google.com/android/
Open Handset Alliance — http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
Android Developer Challenge — http://code.google.com/android/adc.html
Google Social Design / OpenSocial — http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/bestprac.html
Best Practices – http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/bestprac.html

Inbox 2.0
x-prize — http://www.xprize.org/
Google / Yahoo inbox 2.0 — http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/inbox-20-yahoo-and-google-to-turn-e-mail-into-a-social-network/
reinventing email — http://www.research.ibm.com/remail/
Paul Moody — http://domino.watson.ibm.com/cambridge/research.nsf/0/801202452f8bc73b8525698a0066cba4?OpenDocument

Obligatory 3D Section
Windlight — http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/14/windlight-first-look-is-back/
First Annual Federal Virtual Worlds Conference — http://www.ndu.edu/irmc/fedconsortium.html
Havoc4 — http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/09/28/havok4-is-here-on-the-beta-grid/
cloud computing — http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071116_379585.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories
cockroaches — http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16328789
robot chicken — http://www.adultswim.com/shows/robotchicken/

Listener Tag
Educational Simulations – http://www.edheads.org/

Final Thoughts
Michael M – Sweet tea and Sushi
Matthew S – Everyone’s working for the weekend
Michael R – 4 hours and 15 minutes left

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Michael, Michael and Matt get together to talk about rumors of Microsoft buying Yahoo, potential troubles at Digg.com, and Cyborgs.  Also, the guys makes sure that no one confuses them for lawyers, while questioning the judgement of some hackers.

General:
Microsoft and Yahoo – http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB117827827757492168-lMyQjAxMDE3NzA4NDIwNzQ4Wj.html
Digg.com digs a hole – http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2125752,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL050407EOAD
Talkshoe – http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/main.jsp?pushNav=1

Mandatory 3D Internet Section:
The First Cyborg – http://www.flickr.com/photos/philosophy_rebel/470666935/in/pool-79444839@N00/
IBM Tops list of Corporate Second Life sites – http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018238&pageNumber=1
Motorati Island – http://motoratilife.com/

Technology, Convergence, and Mash-ups:
Fring – VoIP for your cell phone – http://www.fring.com/
Cyborg and Robotics – http://www.kevinwarwick.com/faq.htm
Reading Wikipedia on iPod – http://swannman.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/howto-read-wikipedia-on-an-ipod/
Firedog – http://www.firedog.com/
Geek Squad – http://www.geeksquad.com/

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