Daily Links: (18.05.2010)

• Commuters travel to work on the Tube NAKED to Promote Virgin Series
• Travel brands seize on ash cloud flight chaos
• IS Parade
• Openbook - Connect and share whether you want to or not
• New Apple Patent Also Points to Tighter Facebook Connection
• Eine Frage der Perspektive | Spreeblick

Commuters travel to work on the Tube NAKED to Promote Virgin Series So this one is slightly confusing for me. A TV show which promotes team building through going to work naked utilized a PR stunt where people rode the tube naked (with strategically placed bags). Hmm....if you take out the mentions of PR & TV out of the previous statement and replace them with 'I' and the past tense, then how do you think this would end....Apologies for the Daily Mail link...

Travel brands seize on ash cloud flight chaos Posted: 18 May 2010 04:20 AM PDT It was only a matter of time until travel brands (esp. alternatives to flights) started to cash in on the ash cloud. The risk in doing so though (esp. for train operators) is that overcrowding during a flight down time or routine delays/inefficiencies can not only quickly negate any benefit from the message, but also cause consumers to see them as inept, hypocritical or disingenuous. Glass houses and all that.....

IS Parade Japanese Twitter Visualization....I don't what else I can say about it other than entertaining for a few moments and properly inspired.

Openbook - Connect and share whether you want to or not Openbook is doing for privacy on Facebook what 'Please Rob Me' attempted to do (and pretty much failed) for privacy on Geo-location. The site shows what can be done when you start aggregating public status updates in a pretty brutal manner. The timing of the site's growth serves as yet another hit to users accepting Facebook's ubiquity.

New Apple Patent Also Points to Tighter Facebook Connection Facebook integration into the Apple 4.0 OS? It seems like there isn't much that Facebook will be directly linked into soon. It seems that moving beyond basic member volumes to become even more indispensable through integration is the name of the game.

Eine Frage der Perspektive | Spreeblick I know visual effect websites in German aren't really my normal fare, but I thought the visual effect that comes from painting the bars of this fence was incredibly creative. It really illustrates what can be done with a space.