JetBlue

Snowpocalypse? Good Thing There’s an App for That.

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 27, 2010 at 10:18 pm PT

A smartphone won’t help de-ice the plane, but stranded travelers have been increasingly using their devices to cope with blizzard-related changes in travel plans. Traffic to the mobile Web sites of various travel companies is up 200 percent, according to Usablenet, which powers a number of airline and hotel Web sites.

JibJab Picks Puppets and Politics for 2010 Recap

Liz Gannes in Social on December 20, 2010 at 10:36 am PT

JibJab went for a bit of a narrower focus on American politics in its annual original music video recap of the year, constructing a regretful duet between U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

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LinkedIn to Add Recommendation Service

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 1, 2010 at 2:42 pm PT

LinkedIn Corp. plans to launch a new recommendations service, which will allow the social network’s more than 80 million members to post reviews of products and services linked to their professional profiles. Participation in the program is free and voluntary for companies, which would need to set up company profile pages and add products to be reviewed before users could leave a recommendation.

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NextMedia Isn't Stopping With JetBlue and Snooki Videos

Miguel Gonzalez Jr., Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

NextMedia Animation’s computerized reenactment of jetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater’s notorious last day on the job has been a hit, but it’s no accident that the studio has broadened the scope of its computer-animated dramatizations of news events beyond the Hong Kong and Taiwan region that it calls home.

The Freak-Out Flight Attendant's Internet Moment: Facebook Fan Page, Ballads on YouTube and, Yes, a Taiwanesed Treatment!

Kara Swisher in News on August 11, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

BoomTown has not been much of a fan of Facebook fan pages, finding most of them sterile affairs with empty marketing messages and little in the way of real life. But things are actually hopping if you click over to the one created for JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, who went loco after an encounter with a belligerent passenger, opened the emergency inflatable slide and got out of Dodge.

Web Meme: BoomTown and the Internet Is on #TeamSlater and His Inflatable-Slide Rage

Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2010 at 8:15 am PT

The story of JetBlue flight attendant Steve Slater–who, after being abused by a passenger, did a full “Norma Rae” and huffed off the airplane via an inflatable slide–spread like wildfire across the Internet yesterday, almost immediately after the incident occurred. It’s too much to hope that someone on the flight had a Flip camera and is uploading the incident on YouTube right now, but video was unnecessary after the tale of flight rage got out and details piled upon details. This is just the kind of silly, but true-to-life, story that everyone loves to share, and share it they did, with #teamslater quickly gaining ground on Twitter, and online comments and news stories exploding.

The Captain Has Turned Off the "No Streaming" Sign

John Paczkowski in News on August 5, 2008 at 6:01 am PT

Airline passengers will soon have a new option for getting wired at 30,000 feet. This morning, Delta Air Lines said it will offer wireless Internet access across its entire domestic fleet by mid-2009. Provided by Aircell’s Gogo, Delta’s in-flight broadband will offer 3.1Mbps connectivity for $9.95 on flights three hours or less, and $12.95 on flights of more than three hours.

The Captain Has Turned Off the “No Streaming” Sign

John Paczkowski in News on August 5, 2008 at 6:01 am PT

Airline passengers will soon have a new option for getting wired at 30,000 feet. This morning, Delta Air Lines said it will offer wireless Internet access across its entire domestic fleet by mid-2009. Provided by Aircell’s Gogo, Delta’s in-flight broadband will offer 3.1Mbps connectivity for $9.95 on flights three hours or less, and $12.95 on flights of more than three hours.