http://vivabusiness2.com Aggregating data from Business 2.0 blogs worldwide! Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:54:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting that among the first things to go live at the new iPhone apps store is an official Facebook app. The social network is touting its native, and presumably easy-to-use, FB Chat capability. This could be a big deal—if my kid's behavior is an indicator. My 17-year-old daughter put off ... http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/07/10/alternative-to-sms-for-the-iphone-netly-news/ Last summer, at a dinner party that led up to the Web 2.0 Conference, I was skulking around with Mitch Kapor, talking about how Facebook was suddenly "the new Google"--that is, it had all the buzz. Mitch, who of course has seen it all by now, said, "The tech industry ... http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/06/06/the-best-quote-i-didnt-put-in-my-story-netly-news/ I spent the morning looking at a number of laptops that will launch this summer. Lots of whizzy things! But this one right here was my favorite: One of the manufacturers actually offers a "Downgrade to Windows XP" feature. I am not making this up. "You can easily uninstall Windows Vista, ... http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/05/20/a-cool-new-feature-for-laptops-easy-to-uninstall-vista-netly-news/ One thing I hate: Buying music. I haven't bought a CD or MP3 for years. Instead, I subscribe to music — I pay a small monthly fee to Rhapsody and can access most of the world's music (more than 5 million songs) by streaming it via the Net to my home audio ... http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/05/20/10000-netflix-vids-zapped-to-your-tv-netly-news/ Technology put a man on the moon, but it has yet to enable the average Joe to make a perfect shot of espresso. Scores of websites are devoted to this topic. For my money, none is better than Coffeegeek.com which I scoured some years back to come up with my current rig: a Rancilio ... http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/05/16/in-search-of-a-god-shot-netly-news/ Thanks to a new Google project, soon any Website can be its own Facebook. Upping the stakes in its ongoing battle with the popular social network, Google announced today that it was getting into the "social plumbing" business — giving every website a way to add a limitless number of applications and a means ... http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/05/12/google-wants-to-friend-you-netly-news/ [Image: LA Times.com] Last night, I was in New York for the Time 100 dinner, and arrived at the same time as Craig Newmark. There was a long, red carpet out front and people lined up at the curb to see the celebs. (Robert Downey Jr., Rupert Murdoch, John McCain, Mariah ... http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/05/09/craigs-gist-netly-news/ Immortalized in Episode Two of Sn4tchbuckl3r's's Second Chance. Thanks, guys! http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/05/09/the-coolest-thing-that-ever-happened-to-me-netly-news/ Two words: Marc Andreessen. I suspect he'd never join Facebook's board if he thought that selling out to Microsoft was an option. (I love taking  one rumor to debunk another.) http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-buying-facebook-not-likely-netly-news/ I don't know anything about art, but I know a little about Google. And I Googled this: Jeff Koons. He's the artist whose "Chrome Tulips" decorated Google's minimalist search box yesterday morning. Lovely stuff. Beneath the empty box was a link to something called iGoogle Artist Themes ("What happens when great art mixes with ... http://vivabusiness2.com/2008/05/01/googles-art-of-war%e2%80%94with-facebook-netly-news/