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Trivial Posts #20: Cliffhangers, Knitting, And Error Trapping

Posted on October 20, 2015October 20, 2015 by Ewan Spence

What Have I Been Up To? Two appearances online from myself to highlight this week. The first is an appearance in the popular culture podcast ‘From The Sublime‘ where I talk about cliffhangers in modern television (with a specific focus on Doctor Who’. The second is a review of Microsoft Office 2016 on Forbes. Which Is The Better Star Wars Trailer? The nostalgia and new crew style that debuted this week for ‘The Force Awakens‘… or the genuine wish fulfilment of the PlayStation Christmas? Metafilter discusses the weaker trailer Indie Music And Knitting Finding a post on being self-employed and

I can’t see Vine video working online if it follows the Seesmic interaction model

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Vine, an application that allows you to post a six second video snipept online, is now owned by Twitter and looks ready to launch. But I come back to ‘the Seesmic question’ and have to ask who is it for and what problem does it solve? Almost any technology can find fans and a small social group who will champion it, but the tech fails to break out into a large-scale consumer success. What does Vine do differently? Peter Kafka, on All Things D: Why would you want to download Vine? Because it’s supposed to be a fun tool for

Video chat on Skype? Thanks but I’m happy with the new group chat

Posted on July 6, 2011July 6, 2011 by Ewan Spence

To be honest I’m more excited about group chat on Facebook, rather than the addition of video calling via Skype. While I’ll use Skype’s calling feature maybe twice a week, I use video about once a month. On the other hand, group IM/Chat on Skype is used every single day.