Vueling is a small discount airline based out of Barcelona that runs much in the style of JetBlue. Vueling is a young company with a young staff. They put together this single-shot lipsync and dance number to David Guetta’s “When Love Takes Over” to help customers get to know them better.
Happy Holidays. 2009 has simply flown by. 2010 has almost landed and this year, to celebrate, we want you to get to know us better.
Because it’s been a great year, because next year will be even better and, above all, because you’re Vueling every day.
Go Vueling 2010
The Vueling Team
The video is pretty raw and underproduced. I love it.
You may have notice from out sidebar that we’ve played a little bit of Flight Control, a simple but extremely addictive iPhone game. If you think Flight Control is exciting, then this FAA simulation of real events at Charlotte Douglas International Airport will probably get your heart racing.
I’ll set it up for you a bit, because the radio chatter can be hard to follow if you’re not used to listening to it. The blue blip labeled JIA390 is a regional jet with 46 people on board. It’s leaving the commercial airport and planning on taking off from the end of runway 18L, which is the left end up the upper horizontal runway. On the radio they’ll refer to this aircraft as “Blue Streak 390”.
The yellow blip labeled N409DR is a single engine turbo prop with 3 people on board. It’s leaving from the civil aviation part of the airport, and it’s told to expect to take off from the middle of runway 18L, by means of taxiway A (which is pronounced “Alpha”). This aircraft has the radio call sign is 9DR (pronounced “Nine Delta Romeo”).
The flight crew waited the required brake cooling time and then taxied to the approach end of runway 18L and completed the flight to EWN without further incident.
ASDE-X is a radar and transponder system that sounds an alarm in the control tower if it thinks there’s a “runway conflict”.
The most important new features for this release is that Strongspace [our upcoming online storage service] users are automatically licensed when they connect to their Strongspace account using ExpanDrive. In addition quite a variety of small bugs surrounding some installation quirks and Windows 7 problems have been fixed.
Some lawyer friends of mine just pointed me towards a website redesign that just went live for the law firm Morrison & Foerster. If you do nothing else today, please go to their front page and click on “Imagination”. Then write me an email and tell me what these guys were thinking.
There is a detailed review at Above the Law. I actually like the graphic design more than wood-panels-and-old-money look of most law firms. But the site’s content. Oh man. Here’s a few of my favorites:
The “Imagination” page.
A page of optical illusions mislabeled as “puzzles”, and presented with out solution or explanation.
An integrated bookmarking / PDF export system called “MoFolder” (incase you want to save an optical illusion).
A directory directory of lawyers searchable by “law school”.
Search for lawyers by law school.
A “Commitment” page that claims they’re so committed that they don’t even have to explain it.
Don’t get me wrong, Foursquare is a fun little social network and beautifully adapted to the iPhone platform. But their points system incentivizes some activities that I think are detrimental to the environment as a whole.
So in the interests of making things more awesome, I’ve designed some Foursquare Badges intended to shame users into more appropriate behaviors:
A must-have if the Boston Top 10 is any indication.
You’re checking into the venue “Phone Booth in front of Whole Foods” from your cell phone?
Obviously, Foursquare would have to add a relationship status for this to work.
Maybe there’s a killer app on the way, something on the order of VisiCalc for the Apple II, but as far as I can tell, this’ll be the biggest dud since the G4 Cube.
This is rich. I got an email today from Facebook, a startup company which has taken $714M in funding and is still losing money, letting me know they intend to spend $9.5M found a non-profit that will “that will identify and fund projects and initiatives that promote the cause of online privacy, safety, and security.”
Facebook is sending you this notice of a proposed class action settlement that may affect your legal rights as a Facebook member who may have used the Beacon program. This summary notice is being sent to you by Court Order so that you may understand your rights and remedies before the Court considers final approval of the proposed settlement on February 26, 2010.
This is not an advertisement or attorney solicitation.
This is not a settlement in which class members file claims to receive compensation. Under the proposed settlement, Facebook will terminate the Beacon program. In addition, Facebook will provide $9.5 million to establish an independent non-profit foundation that will identify and fund projects and initiatives that promote the cause of online privacy, safety, and security.
For full details on the settlement and further instructions on what to do to opt out of, object to, or otherwise comment upon the proposed settlement, please go to http://www.BeaconClassSettlement.com.
I’m not approaching this post with anything other than a high-level observation that a money-losing startup with $714M of funding is investing $9.5M to found a non-profit. I find it hilarious.
Apple’s web browser, Safari, has a feature euphemistically named “Private Browsing…” When enabled, private browsing makes it so that the sites you visit aren’t stored in the browsers history, and cookies from those sites are deleted when “Private Browsing…” is turned off. In short, there’s no record left on your computer of what you’ve done on the web when “Private Browsing…” was enabled. If used judiciously you can be confident when guests borrow your computer and type www.you into the browser location bar, Safari will always suggest the completion tube.com and never porn.com.
In light of the recent news with Tiger Woods, I wonder if there might be demand for a similar feature on the iPhone. Users could, in a password protected configuration panel, flag certain contacts with a special setting. Incoming, outgoing, and missed calls for these contacts would simply not be saved, and text messages would be deleted automatically after they’ve been read. A contact with this setting would look like any other contact that you never called or heard from. Apple could call the feature “Private Calling…”, or maybe they could come up with a better name.
A must-have if the Boston Top 10 is any indication.
You’re checking into the venue “Phone Booth in front of Whole Foods” from your cell phone?
Obviously, Foursquare would have to add a relationship status for this to work.
For the Mayor of your local “Starbucsk Coffee”.
