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Seemed appropriate :) - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet

Absolutely loved this one. Actually found & shared it myself. Amongst a slew of excellent links, this was the article of the night. Because I believe it is absolutely true. - Christopher Galtenberg

A new Swiss company is taking a different approach to private jet travel by making the most of existing empty leg flights. Launched in May, Geneva-based LunaJets takes advantage of the fact that many private jets fly empty when they return home after dropping passengers off or when they head out to pick passengers up. - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet

Given the current economy and the higher prices of fuel, how real is this approach? Having worked in the Limousine Industry, we saw our business cut in half including general Aviation pick ups. - Paul W. Swansen

seeing the price range and considering which kinda target they have in mind, i would say this is more for upscale travelers who might get some lat minute smth and jump on a plane. There are but perhaps not too many to keep this airline in a thriving mode. Anyways, we will see how it fares. - Hayk

Same here, I love it's simplicity. - Amit Morson

I'm quite liking the new design. It's put certain features in better places. New design less efficient? In what way? I find it very efficient, I can select the rooms I can see on my sidebar. You can now create friend lists (of which I've used to put all my imaginary Flickr friends on and thus can see all their photos in one stream without any of noise). All the features are there just in different places, e.g. the Me tab is accessed by clicking on your username. - Kol Tregaskes

Robert, if you want your Comments only, click on your name/username, then Comments + Likes then Comments (only), fairly painless. I still use NoiseRiver for this as it highlights your comments and also replies to your comments, wish FF did that itself though. - Kol Tregaskes

Great example of Social Media at its finest! LMAO - Igor The Troll

I can just watch this animated gif again and again! It is so funny! - Igor The Troll

rotflmao!! - genieyclo

I have actually been doing some investigating into this exact approach for advertising but expanding it outside a single site and approaching it from the perspective of an ad network. I truly believe that these type of more social engagement ads are ultimately the next generation of display advertising. With APIs like MySpace Data Availability and Facebook Connect allowing for pseudo data portability, it is very realistic that this type of functionality could be set up to integrate with ads on various sites the same way that text and display ads currently are. So instead of having just a fancy banner ad, it has hooks to integrate with your social graph via the user's social network of choice. Thanks so much for posting this! - Devlin Dunsmore

I think that should be GUTorF i think the funny factor can be as effective. - Allan Anderson

If you look at it from another angle funny could also be interpreted as useful. If people are surfing YouTube or Facebook looking for funny stuff and your social media catches their eye for its hilarity factor it is helping them achieve their objective. Hence it is useful. Usefulness is relative to the goals of the user and not something absolutely defined by the creator. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl

"At some point Obama and the Democrats are going to have to fight back, and it better be soon. McCain's involvement in corruption should be handled in a gloves-off way. Wes Clark's statement that being shot down and imprisoned, while sad is in fact not a qualification for President. The age issue ought to be brought up in a personal way -- related to McCain's stumbles and appearance. Question his mental ability, and how it's not going to get better as McCain ages. Question his health, he's a cancer survivor. Question his education, his honesty, how he treated his first wife, how he cheated on his current wife, and her drug addiction, is she paying taxes on all her property? How many McMansions does McCain need? He's had a government health care program his whole life, how in touch could he be with your life as you deal with medical issues without insurance and face the prospect of losing your home. This guy has 12 homes and a private jet. How out of touch can you get!" - Dave Hussein Winer via Bookmarklet

LOL the election hasn't even really started and already people are using past tense. Hyperbole FTW! - Alex IHateMondays Scoble

I hate negative campaigning, but as McCain has demonstrated, it works even when it isn't true. Obama has a lot to work with if he goes negative, McCain is partially senile, thirty years behind on foreign policy, and has more connections to failed Bush policies than any Dem could hope for. I'd rather have Obama go negative and win, than stay on the high road and lose - and end up with 4 more years of the same, or possibly worse. - William Harryman

"I'll give you a great example that's already obsolete. At the end of the primaries, both Hillary Clinton and John McCain endorsed a gas tax holiday for Americans this summer. Every economist, both liberal and conservative, said this would do nothing to help matters. And when Hillary Clinton was asked by the late Tim Russert, "Can you produce one economist to support the gas tax holiday?" she said, "Oh that's elite thinking." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

Soulhuntre: I completely agree with your sentiments regarding cultural division. Our whole problem as a country is that we're so damned well-off that we spend an incredible amount of time arguing over the 10% of things that we don't have in common and very little celebrating the tons of ideals and goals that we share. - Roger Benningfield

I wish Obama and Biden 'WERE' a hell of a lot smarter. Their tax plan is pathetic and will chase off business. It is no different then anything we have seen before from a labor party in this country. It is not progressive. It is regressive. I see little incentives for companies to be beneficial to a community. Big business will be taxed regardless of what they give back to our neighborhood and to local jobs. I'm very saddened by our chances with Obama's leadership. Eating the rich makes the rich RUN - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

where is this feature on Google Reader? - Jeff Quinton

I follow you on both. Its actually considerably more difficult to find your shared items feed in Google Reader. You either have to go looking for it specifically, or (in my case) pick it up from a link Louis Gray posted. Contrast that with Friendfeed, where you show up as a Friend-of-a-friend almost immediately. - Denton Gentry

I subscribe to your items as an rss feed, and I am sure a lot of other people do as well. That wouldn't show up. - Christian Leonard Quale via twhirl

Adams was born in San Francisco, California in an upper-class family to Charles and Olive Adams. When he was four years old, he was tossed face-first into a garden wall in an aftershock from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, breaking his nose. - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Justin: the PhotoCycle series got a funding green light (thanks to a sponsorship from Adobe) and we'll be starting that up probably in October. Got some really fun ones planned for that. In the meantime, though, we just interviewed Rick Smolan, photographer behind the Day in the Life series of photo books. That should be out later this week or next week and is a good one. - Robert Scoble

Favourite image - Oak Tree, Snowstorm - http://www.findlikeminds.com/R... - Rob

Great article. For blogging to survive we must open our blogs to our readers and allow social interaction. Using long and engaging posts to drive people to our blogs so that they can take part in conversations is the way blogging should continue to go. More and more companies are realizing this and are giving us the tools to link our blog content to the conversations taking place in the social media. - Bob Blunk

Sounds more like wishful thinking than a trend. Just cause you put these features in the software doesn't mean it will make any difference. It's sort of the same as adding social features to enterprise content management. The baked in values are at odds -- not as severely in this case but still different. - Kevin

THe beauty of the blog platform is that it can be anything you want it to e. it doesn't "need" to be social unless the author wants that. I can as easily, and effectively, be a monologue, microblog, link dump or anything in between. Social is GOOD and I like it - but lots of the good in blogging is this personality, that a blog can be a reflection of a single facet of the social web - it doesn't need to be tied in all the time. - Soulhuntre

I've heard this for years, starting like my freshman year in high school. History teachers always complain that modern media is making a "sound bite" culture. - klecu

@klecu: one could argue that a 'soundbite bite culture' is a reasonable response to information overload - .LAG

Thanks Britney. Nice find! - Mitchell Tsai

Its just crazy - Britney Mason

yeah, showing their immaturity - Gregory Lent

Cute :) - Niclas Strandh via Alert Thingy

I am all signed up and setup at SocialMedian, but still have yet to soak in and get comfortable. looks exciting though. - Justin Korn