Following the landmark ruling by the California Supreme Court, same-sex couples from across the country have a new reason to visit The Golden State.

Wondering what California’s top-rated gay-friendly hotels are? While we at VibeAgent do the leg work for you to find the best hotel deal on the internet, our community of savvy travelers has done the work to identify California’s top-rated gay-friendly hotels.

The top recommended romantic, same-sex friendly hotels at five of the most popular California destinations are:

San Francisco:
1) Le Meridien San Francisco
2) Clift Hotel
3) Mark Hopkins Intercontinental
4) Hotel Vitale-Embarcadero
5) Parc Fifty Five Hotel

Los Angeles:
1) Mondrian West Hollywood
2) Hyatt West Hollywood
3) Le Montrose Suite Hotel
4) W Hotel Los Angeles Westwood
5) The Beverly Hills Hotel

Santa Monica:
1) Le Merigot - A JW Marriott Beach Hotel
2) Huntley Santa Monica Beach
3) Georgian Hotel
4) Viceroy - Santa Monica
5) Shutters on the Beach

San Diego:
1) Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
2) Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter
3) Bristol Hotel
4) Hotel Del Coronado
5) Marriott San Diego Hotel and Marina

Santa Barbara:
1) Bacara Resort Spa
2) Hotel Oceana Santa Barbara

What happens when you challenge travel experts to see who really has traveled the most miles? The answer: The Ultimate Jetsetter - Blogger’s Edition!

Two weeks ago VibeAgent decided to challenge some of the most respected travel experts in the Blogosphere to log their trips on our recently launched Facebook app - Jetsetter. With nearly 20 bloggers vying for bragging rights as the Ultimate Jetsetter, the contest proved to be a telling and grueling competition!

So which blogger has truly traveled the most in the past year?

The winner is…

Tim Hughes from The BOOT (Business of Online Travel)! At a whopping 144,142 miles traveled, Tim easily surpassed his fellow bloggers. With all that traveling across the world, it’s admirable that Tim still finds time for his blog (though, we hope that he hasn’t suffered from too much jet lag!).

How did the other bloggers fare? Listed below are the rankings of the top ten Jetsetters of all the bloggers that participated in the competition.

1. Tim Hughes - The BOOT (144,142 miles)
2. Jens Thraenhart - Tourism Internet Marketing (113,828 miles)
3. Ben Mutzabaugh - USA Today’s “Today in the Sky” (56,202 miles)
4. Juliana Shallcross - Hotel Chatter (49,506 miles)
5. David Molyneaux - Travel Maven (34,250 miles)
6. Gil Zeimer - Vagablond (19,370 miles)
7. Kevin May- Travolution (18,903 miles)
8. Patti Mangan- TangoDiva (17,649 miles)
9. Chris Clarke - Vacant Ready (15,520 miles)
10. Guillaume Thevenot - Hotel Blogs 2.0 (15,050 miles)

The true question is whether or not miles traveled is any indication of blogger’s expertise in travel. You be the judge. Until then, keep Jetsetting!

If you’re like most online veterans, you probably like buying domain names for fun and profit. I know I do. I’ve been doing it for about twelve years now.

But it was not until very recently, as in about like 10 minutes ago, that i realized this: how I end up buying domain names is probably very different than the way you do. Read on, and then if you want you can share your opinions in favor or to the contrary in the comments, or win a shiny new domain name.

That is, if you’re a real a person and not some robot spider sent by Google.

Many of us buy a domain name because we think somebody else might want it later, or perhaps somebody forgot to do something obvious, like register their own name or company or slogan or whatever.

I guess I might do that sometimes. But that’s usually when the domain name doesn’t end up being worth much.

I usually come at the whole domain thing a little differently. Usually when I decide to buy a domain name it is because there’s that semblance of a seemingly marketable idea bouncing around my head and I think I might as well go ahead and buy a little insurance policy on that idea. Like a $10 policy. $50 if i want the 5 year one.

Who knows, maybe it was a great idea. Maybe in 4 or 7 or 10 years I’ll circle back to that idea and think; right time, right place. Let’s do this. Or you will. No worries, you can have it. If it is the right time, right place for you, then I would be happy to contribute to that. Redirect and transfer!

Then I will have given someone a present while having a new story to tell…for $10 - what a bargain!

So here’s a little sample of five particular gems i’m sitting on right now. If you have a good idea for using one of these things, tell me below. If I like it, the domain is yours, free. My call.

feedbreaker.com
pillowbank.com
snufflebug.com
tastemakr.com
scubapals.com

I’m such a Jetsetter. I’ve traveled 29,728 miles so far within the last year, which is more than 1.2 rotations around the earth’s equator. I’ve logged 18 trips to 4 countries, and I’m the 8th most well-traveled person amongst my jetsetting friends. On all of Facebook, I fall to being the 255th most well-traveled person, amongst all jetsetters.

How do I know this? Because I downloaded the Jetsetter application for Facebook, built by….VibeAgent!

In the first month alone, we’ve had over 2,000 downloads and 10,000 trips created on Jetsetter. It’s one of the most popular travel applications on Facebook, and growing every day. Jetsetter lets you log your trips and share them with your friends, and then compete to see how many miles you’ve traveled. If you haven’t checked it out already, please do. That would be swell.