21. Getting High With Richard Branson: Virgin America's Virgin Flight - Boing Boing When we arrived at SFO this afternoon, richard branson, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, Virgin America CEO Fred Reid, and others held a press conference. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/08/getting-high-with-ri.html

Boing Boing Home Gadgets TV Suggest a Link ... Joel Getting high with Richard Branson: Virgin America's virgin flight Posted by Xeni Jardin , August 8, 2007 6:07 PM permalink Virgin America kicked off service in the United States today. As regular BB readers may recall, they kindly invited us to name one of the planes a while back I flew on a VA inaugural flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco just now ('California Dreaming' flight number VX0846) to check out the new service, and uploaded the iPhone snapshots you see here from the plane. More of them here: Link These planes are wired. There are two 110-volt power outlets for every three seats (1:1 ratio in first class), USB ports, two WiFi access points on board (front and rear, broadcasting SSIDs today, but not delivering connectivity yet pending regulatory approval), ethernet at every seat (which connects you to a planewide network mile high LAN parties, anyone?). EVDO is planned for transmitting data back to the ground (email, txting not active today, should be by early '08). I'm told AirCell will be providing the wireless connectivity My flight buddy today was Artur Bergman from O'Reilly Radar . His account of the inaugural flight is here: Link . He shot the chat UI snapshot here , more great snaps from Artur here: Link So, in three words: Virgin America pwns. Here are ten reasons:

22. The Best Business Ideas In The World - August 1, 2006 richard branson, entrepreneurial icon, shares his freshest ideas like a Virgin superfuel Where others see disaster, richard branson sees opportunity. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/08/01/8382250/

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24. $25 Million Offered In Climate Challenge - Washingtonpost.com 9 British billionaire entrepreneur richard branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, offered a $25 million prize Friday to anyone who can http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020900693.

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25. Talk Talk: Tracy Morgan, Richard Branson, Spoon - TV Squad Charlie Rose Ken Auletta and richard branson; The Late Show with David Letterman Tracy Morgan, Kat Von D, and The Dropkick Murphys; Jay Leno TBA http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/01/11/talk-talk-tracy-morgan-richard-branson-spoon/

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26. Health Blog : Richard Branson's Virgin Group Gets Healthy To richard branson s long list of eclectic moves we can now add launching a health care company in a country where doctors are employed by the government http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/01/11/richard-bransons-virgin-group-gets-health

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27. Business Opportunities Weblog | Richard Branson: Rocket Man The stretch white SUV limo outside the Virgin Group’s Bleecker Street headquarters does not belong to richard branson. Like any selfrespecting billionaire http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2008/01/14/richard-branson-rocket-man/

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28. Advocates For Self-Government - Libertarian Education richard branson is CEO of Britain s Virgin Group, which includes Virgin Airlines and Virgin Records. On July 14, 1997, in a Reuters News Service article http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/richard-branson.html

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29. The Enlightenment Of Richard Branson In a world where companies routinely bedevil customers, the Virgin chief is an angel, because he truly puts customers first. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/108/open_customers-branson.html

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30. Richard Branson Doll (Cartoon Doll Maker) richard branson, known as The Rebel Billionaire, also known as That British Guy Who Is On TV A Lot, is a groundbreaking entrepreneur. http://www.cartoondollemporium.com/richardbransondoll.html

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31. Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Weblog: Podcast: Richard Branson richard branson explains why he wants to send us all to space and says that entrepreneurs are more capable of changing the World than politicians. http://www.forumblog.org/blog/2006/01/podcast_richard_1.html

Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Weblog Alert the Moderator About this blog Subscribe to the feed Main Podcast: Richard Branson Richard Branson explains why he wants to send us all to space and says that entrepreneurs are more capable of changing the World than politicians. I hard to fight really for this one ;-) Loic Le Meur Posted by Lo¯c Le Meur on January 27, 2006 at 06:49 PM in Podcasts Permalink Comments hostName = '.forumblog.org'; Post a comment This weblog only allows comments from registered users. To comment, please Sign In You are currently signed in as (nobody) Sign Out Comments: Davos Conversation, visit the Davos bloggregator videoblogs Sunil Bharti Mittal Interview on the Annual Meeting MediaChannel: Davos 2007 Davos invitation Jeff Jarvis on how you can join the conversation Klaus Schwab on Davos Conversation pages www.davosconversation.org Pre-Davos press conference Part 1 of 6 Annual Meeting 2007 programme Jonathan Schmidt, Head, Global Agenda Take a tour of the Forum with Professor Klaus Schwab top categories Young Global Leaders all categories About Africa Alert the moderator Americas Annual Meeting Arab World Reforms Asia China Business Summit Communities Competitiveness Current Affairs Europe Media Debate Middle East Podcasts Religion Science Social Entrepreneurs The future of business in Europe Videocast Web/Tech Weblogs WorkSpace Young Global Leaders most recent posts Davos and after – beyond the conversations India, Israel and lessons on innovation

32. Profiles: Branson’s Luck: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker PROFILE of British entrepreneur richard branson. richard branson sees himself as a modern version of a 19thcentury British adventurer. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_specter

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33. William Morris Agency richard branson was born in 1950 and at age 17, while at Stowe the famous English public school - started a student advisory service. http://www.wma.com/richard_branson/

34. Tycoon Lovefest: Sir Richard Branson Claims He And Larry Page Are Working Togeth Virgin boss Sir richard branson who hosted Larry Page s stormtossed nuptials on his Caribbean island Necker last year says that. http://gizmodo.com/340455/sir-richard-branson-claims-he-and-larry-page-are-worki

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35. Joe Polish Interviews Sir Richard Branson, Founder Of The Virgin Empire Sir richard branson presented live, via satellite, from Necker Island at Joe Polish s Piranha Marketing SuperConference 2007. Sir richard also agreed to a http://www.joepolish.com/richardbranson/

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36. Sir Richard Branson Tells Virgin Atlantic Strikers To Resign - Times Online Sir richard branson has provoked outrage by telling Virgin Atlantic staff who are threatening to go on strike that they should “consider working elsewhere”. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/articl

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38. Richard Branson Bio richard branson was born in 1950 and educated at Stowe School, where he established a national magazine called Student at the age of 16 and started a http://realitytv.about.com/od/therebelbillionaire/a/BransonBio.htm

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39. Burt Rutan And Richard Branson Want You To Hit Space In High Style This is encouraging news for billionaire mogul richard branson. His Virgin Galactic spaceline, the front runner in a crowded field of spacetourism http://www.wired.com/science/space/magazine/15-06/ff_space_virgin

@import "/css/toolbox_article_bottom.css"; @import "/css/article.css"; @import "/css/google_ad.css"; @import "/css/wiredcomment.css"; Subscribe Renew Give a Gift Change Address ... WIRED Science Top Stories Magazine Wired Blogs All Wired WIRED MAGAZINE: ISSUE 15.06 Science Space Burt Rutan and Richard Branson Want You to Hit Space in High Style Spencer Reiss Engineer Rutan (left) and entrepreneur Branson. AP See Also: Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth's Orbit The Falcon 1 's Rocket Science, From Its Avionics to Its Engines How NASA Screwed Up (And Four Ways to Fix It) From Wired Science A Conversation with Shana Dale, Deputy Administrator of NASA Listen to the Audio Transcript (39:30 minute MP3) Don't bother asking muttonchopped aerospace samurai Burt Rutan for a peek behind the 50-foot hangar doors at his Mojave, California, skunk works. He'll show off his new airships "when they're ready to fly," he huffs in an email. With SpaceShipOne , the first private vehicle to carry a human into space, safely berthed at the Smithsonian museum, the next generation is taking shape. According to industry sources, Rutan's Scaled Composites engineering crew has locked down designs and started laying up carbon fiber for two new craft: a supersize

40. Scaled Composites, LLC: Composite Aircraft Design, Prototyping And Flight Test Sir richard branson added I couldn t be more delighted to announce the Conceived in 1970 by Sir richard branson, the Virgin Group has gone on to grow http://www.scaled.com/news/2005-07-27_branson_rutan_spaceship_company.htm

Branson and Rutan Form 'The Spaceship Company' To Jointly Manufacture and Market Spaceships for the new Sub-Orbital Personal Spaceflight Industry OSHKOSH, Wis. July 27, 2005 The Spaceship Company will be jointly owned by Virgin and Scaled, and will contract Scaled for the research, development, testing and certification of SS2/WK2. Burt Rutan will head up the technical development team. Burt Rutan commented: "I am very excited to have agreed the terms on which we can now move forward to develop the world's-first commercial, passenger-carrying Spaceships. This will truly herald an era of personal spaceflight first described by the visionary science fiction writers of the 1940's and 1950's. Richard and I share a vision that commercially-viable and safe space tourism will provide the foundation for the human colonization of space. I am looking forward, (actually looking way up!) to working together with Richard on this next exciting phase." Sir Richard Branson added: "I couldn't be more delighted to announce the formation of this joint venture at the biggest private aviation event in the world. Like many millions of people growing up in the Sixties who witnessed the wonder of man walking on the moon - I dreamt that one day I too would make that 'one small step...'! Unfortunately though, over the last three decades, many people gave up hope - luckily people like Burt Rutan never did. His vision has allowed people, like me, to dream again. But even I never dreamed as boy, that one day, I would form, with Burt, the company which will build the world's first commercial passenger spacecraft!"

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