The Commonwealth Club Podcast http://www.commonwealthclub.tv Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:37:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 A fortnightly tech podcast from Charlie Cooke, Aidan Hornsby and Stuart Bowness. Three twenty-something guys from various parts of the non-American English speaking world who share an interest in technology, video and design which ranges from the accessible to the downright nerdy have a chat every two weeks and put it up on the internet for all to share. Often ranges into other topics, from the sublime to the ridiculous. A particular fascination with killing mosquitoes predominates. For all details please visit http://www.commonwealthclub.tv The Commonwealth Club clean The Commonwealth Club charlie@charliecooke.co.uk charlie@charliecooke.co.uk (The Commonwealth Club) The Commonwealth Club The Commonwealth Club british, canadian, technology, video, apple, gadgets, internet, software, commonwealth The Commonwealth Club Podcast http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/site-meta-image.png http://www.commonwealthclub.tv The British Empire Weekly #5: The Groupon Crocodiles http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/the-groupon-crocodiles/ http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/the-groupon-crocodiles/#comments Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:35:52 +0000 Charlie http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/?p=159 In which Charlie, Aidan and Stuart finally introduce themselves, and then discuss:

  • The Commonwealth Club Twitter account
  • The KickOff team collaboration app for OSX
  • Windows Phone 7 and 8, Windows 8. Does it go far enough, and is Microsoft structurally capable of bold moves?
  • Has building one’s own computers come full circle?
  • Where does one take a broken Android phone, and who is responsible?
  • Five years in the future, Microsoft has 40% share of the smartphone market; what did they do?
  • Steve Ballmer’s face
  • iCloud: what will it be, what are the potential problems? How easy would it be to pirate?
  • What is in iCloud for the record labels?
  • Charlie’s worries about OSX Lion
  • How iOS 5 could be improved
  • Groupon: to invest, or not to invest?

Links: KickOff, iCloud Will Be Huge, Steve Ballmer,

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]]> http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/the-groupon-crocodiles/feed/ 0 android,apple,crocodiles,groupon,icloud,ios5,kickoff,microsoft,nokia,osx lion,windows 7,windows 8 In which is discussed: KickOff, Windows Phone 7/8, how to say 'Nokia', building computers, broken phones, Windows 8, Steve Ballmer, iCloud, iOS 5, Groupon IPO. In which is discussed: KickOff, Windows Phone 7/8, how to say 'Nokia', building computers, broken phones, Windows 8, Steve Ballmer, iCloud, iOS 5, Groupon IPO. The Commonwealth Club clean #4: The Elephant Cushion http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/the-elephant-cushion/ http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/the-elephant-cushion/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 14:55:40 +0000 Charlie http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/?p=149 In which Charlie, Aidan, Stuart and guest Joseph Brett discuss:

  • Charlie’s bad experience with RingGo at the train station
  • The future of libraries
  • Charlie holds a letter from Hitler
  • Nicholas Cage
  • Flagrant blasphemy
  • blip.tv
  • Joseph Brett’s viral video recut of ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off‘
  • YouTube hiring content producers
  • Is there too much content on the internet?
  • Ashton Kutcher
  • All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

Links: Joseph Brett, Ferris Bueller Recut, Blip.tv, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

]]> http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/the-elephant-cushion/feed/ 0 all watched over by machines of loving grace,ashton kutcher,blasphemy,blip.tv,hitler,joseph brett,libraries,nicholas cage,ringgo,youtube In which is discussed: Electronic parking, libraries, Nicholas Cage, blasphemy, blip.tv, Joseph Brett's viral video, Ashton Kutcher, YouTube content producers. In which is discussed: Electronic parking, libraries, Nicholas Cage, blasphemy, blip.tv, Joseph Brett's viral video, Ashton Kutcher, YouTube content producers. The Commonwealth Club clean #3: The Sedin Twins http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/the-sedin-twins/ http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/the-sedin-twins/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 22:27:36 +0000 Charlie http://www.commonwealthclub.tv/?p=135 In which Charlie, Aidan and Stuart discuss:
  • The Royal Wedding
  • iCloud
  • Apple’s cash – a dividend, or buying a pointless country?
  • All Charlie’s friends have PCs
  • The iPhone Nano?
  • Do people realise that Wikipedia isn’t all true?
  • Can Apps become dominant given their turnover?
  • Viagra
  • PushPopPress
  • iPads and Kindles replacing books
  • Google and Feedburner
  • Ice Hockey

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  • Who is in The Commonwealth Club?
  • Shipping Containers
  • 48fps video, and 3D movies
  • Is Apple creating a YouTube killer?
  • The prospect of an Apple Television
  • Amazon downtime
  • The supposed iTunes In The Cloud
  • Rdio and Spotify
  • Will Windows Mobile and Nokia kill RIM?
  • The US Army and Android
  • Katherine Parkinson
  • The Bill Gates Mosquito
  • Did Stuart buy a MacBook Air at the wrong time?
  • iPhone 5
  • The map of nuclear risk, the Royal Wedding, and the English weather

Links: Zigloo, Nuclear Risk Map, GiantURL, Mystery Theatre 3000, Chicks With Steve Buscemeyes

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  • Stuart’s brand new MacBook Air
  • Final Cut Pro X
  • The movies GarbageMan and Sucker Punch
  • Killing mosquitoes the American military way
  • Is Twitter pointless?
  • People who buy PCs and then make them look like Macs
  • The difficulty of renting cars in the UK

And many other things..

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