Ubelly » election http://www.ubelly.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:50:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Who needs real politicians when you can have finger puppets…? http://www.ubelly.com/2010/05/who-needs-real-politicians-when-you-can-have-finger-puppets/ http://www.ubelly.com/2010/05/who-needs-real-politicians-when-you-can-have-finger-puppets/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 08:13:36 +0000 Sara Allison http://www.ubelly.com/?p=1301 rubbishfingers_thumb.jpgWant a cute reminder of the 2010 election? Or quite like the idea of degrading key political figures? Either way, Continue Reading]]> rubbishfingers_thumb.jpg

rubbishfingers Want a cute reminder of the 2010 election? Or quite like the idea of degrading key political figures? Either way, you’ll like these limited edition UK politician finger puppets. If you want to be in with the chance of winning one, Wired holds the key. Personally, if I don’t see another politician for the rest of the year I’ll be happy. And I’m not telling you which is my favourite puppet…

]]> http://www.ubelly.com/2010/05/who-needs-real-politicians-when-you-can-have-finger-puppets/feed/ 1 Vote for IT in the election, change local governments and Lightfleet are light years ahead http://www.ubelly.com/2010/04/vote-for-it-in-the-election-change-local-governments-and-lightfleet-are-light-years-ahead/ http://www.ubelly.com/2010/04/vote-for-it-in-the-election-change-local-governments-and-lightfleet-are-light-years-ahead/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:15:21 +0000 Sara Allison http://www.ubelly.com/?p=1150 Continue Reading]]> Not sick of the election yet? Keep up to date with each party’s stance on IT at the Vote IT Up blog.

Code for America leverages the web to enable developers to build projects online and share the resulting code with other local governments. Sounds great – should we start this in the UK?

Microsoft adapts Office Web Apps for Facebook with the launch of Microsoft Docs (beta)

Will light replace cables in blade servers? Lightfleet’s technology employs light signals to replace the cabling and switches used to connect various server nodes in a blade server – and they just delivered their first unit to Microsoft’s Research Labs.

Aura is a new way of communicating status updates across multiple Microsoft platforms using Xbox LIVE avatars. It’s early doors yet, but sounds fun…

]]> http://www.ubelly.com/2010/04/vote-for-it-in-the-election-change-local-governments-and-lightfleet-are-light-years-ahead/feed/ 0 The future of news and how to track your mobile apps http://www.ubelly.com/2010/03/the-future-of-news-and-how-to-track-your-mobile-apps/ http://www.ubelly.com/2010/03/the-future-of-news-and-how-to-track-your-mobile-apps/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:16:51 +0000 Sara Allison http://www.ubelly.com/?p=942 Continue Reading]]> Algorithms being used to report the news? Whatever next…!

Watch out for lots of Twitter and other social media activity related to the election, despite the fact analyst claims TV will be more important in election than social media

Fancy a free trip to Australia? Try your chances with the Facebook boomerang campaign launched by Tourism Australia

Ebay aims to reenergise its classifieds business in the US with the launch of eBay Classifieds

Google and Adobe join forces – Flash player to be included in future versions of Google Chrome, with automatic updates

Distimo Monitor Lets Developers Track Mobile Apps Across Platforms – no charge and no custom code required. Result!

Hollywood wins injunction against UK download site – but they say they’re just a search engine, not a download site

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