http://blog.christianebuddy.com Christian eBuddy Sun, 20 May 2012 09:35:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/the-sandbox-bulkypix/ http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/the-sandbox-bulkypix/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 06:41:03 +0000 Benedictus http://blog.christianebuddy.com/?guid=dcfde75a975e87b5663106b14935400e http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/the-sandbox-bulkypix/feed/ 0 http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/pollution-teams-with-thunderclouds-to-warm-atmosphere/ http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/pollution-teams-with-thunderclouds-to-warm-atmosphere/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 02:31:38 +0000 Benedictus http://blog.christianebuddy.com/?guid=0cc947d1c2b53398d15f0a82ae0a376f http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/pollution-teams-with-thunderclouds-to-warm-atmosphere/feed/ 0 http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/kickstarter-meet-cordlite-the-light-up-iphone-cable-for-night-owls/ http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/kickstarter-meet-cordlite-the-light-up-iphone-cable-for-night-owls/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 16:36:53 +0000 Benedictus http://techcrunch.com/?p=556886 My set ritual before going to bed each night is as follows -- turn out the lights, plug in my iPhone, take off my glasses and attempt vainly to nod off. Step two in that process can be a bit of a crapshoot in the dark, but the folks at Scrap Pile Labs have recently kicked off a new Kickstarter campaign for a product called the CordLite that just may come in handy. As the name sort of implies, the CordLite is a dock connector cable for iDevices that, well, lights up thanks to a pair of forward-facing LEDs. It's a very simple concept, but the thoughtful execution is what make this project worth keeping an eye on.]]> http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/kickstarter-meet-cordlite-the-light-up-iphone-cable-for-night-owls/feed/ 0 http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/ice-rage-mountain-sheep/ http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/ice-rage-mountain-sheep/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 14:00:03 +0000 Benedictus http://blog.christianebuddy.com/?guid=6f07e99aed4d76eaf30dbca3111cd673 http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/ice-rage-mountain-sheep/feed/ 0 http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/newspaper-attacks-uk-government-for-its-closeness-to-google/ http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/newspaper-attacks-uk-government-for-its-closeness-to-google/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 13:39:33 +0000 Benedictus http://techcrunch.com/?p=556863 UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail, has decided to raise the issue of Google's influence on the UK government, after uncovering the fact that Conservative party ministers have held meetings with Google an average of once a month since the General Election two years ago. There have been 23 meetings between Tory ministers and Google since June 2010, with Prime Minister David Cameron meeting Google three times and George Osborne - who as Chancellor of the Exchequer is supposed to meet with business leaders - four times in two years. The story need to be a seen in a wider context. The Conservatives (in as has Labour under its tenure) have recently come under fire for having too close a relationship to another powerful entity, News Corporation. A huge inquiry into Press standards has in large part focused on the ties between Rupert Murdoch’s media giant and the Conservatives. But what the report buries way down in the article, is the number of times the newspaper itself has met with the Government. A Google spokesperson told us: "It's absolutely right that governments speak with companies about issues that affect their citizens. The British Government makes the list of those meetings publicly available - including the Daily Mail’s 34 meetings over the same period." In other words, the Daily Mail has met with the Government almost one and a half times a month (on average) since they entered office - that's quite a bit more than Google has. It's likely those were high-level meetings, not editorial ones.]]> http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/newspaper-attacks-uk-government-for-its-closeness-to-google/feed/ 0 http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/new-silicon-memory-chip-developed/ http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/new-silicon-memory-chip-developed/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 02:31:17 +0000 Benedictus http://blog.christianebuddy.com/?guid=f46adc2b21e366042076817cf3b32bea http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/new-silicon-memory-chip-developed/feed/ 0 http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/clarityray-battles-ad-blockers-with-500k-in-funding/ http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/clarityray-battles-ad-blockers-with-500k-in-funding/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 02:06:31 +0000 Benedictus http://techcrunch.com/?p=556742 Some of you are probably reading this post with ad blocker right now — and to be honest, I don't blame you. Sure, there's the occasional amusing or genuinely useful ad, but not terribly often, so why not install a plugin and avoid the whole mess? Of course, those ads make money, so if ad blockers become widespread enough, it could be a real problem for online publishers (who have enough problems already). Israeli startup ClarityRay says it's not something looming in the misty future — it's happening now, and it's only going to get worse.]]> http://blog.christianebuddy.com/2012/05/clarityray-battles-ad-blockers-with-500k-in-funding/feed/ 0