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Google Chrome Turns One: Has It Been a Success?
Exactly one year ago today, the Google Chrome browser was launched to the world. And, in Google-like fashion, they took the unconventional route of announcing Chrome via comic book. Do you remember all of the discussion around Google’s decision to enter the browser market?
Now, 365 days later, Google is commemorating Chrome’s first birthday with some impressive stats. To get the full picture of where Chrome stands today though, we need to look at all the numbers. Read the rest of this entry »
Can 20 folks Make Bing? Nah.
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 16th, 2009
Since vacation last week I’ve been on the road constantly, and unable to find much time to write. But this NYT Op Ed, by Robert Cringely, caught my eye, as it addresses something I’ve been watching closely for some time – the competition between Microsoft and Google. Clearly the two giants are circling each other’s core revenue streams – Google announced a vapor competitor to Windows last week, and Bing is Microsoft’s answer to Google search. (Disclosure: Both companies have sponsored this site in the past, and Bing is sponsoring it now (see BingTweets), and both companies work with FM, my business). 
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So it makes sense that there’d be a fair amount of speculation on what it all means. But Cringely’s take, validated as it was in the pages of the Times, struck me as worthy of thinking through. In it he argues:
This is all heady stuff and good for lots of press, but in the end none of this is likely to make a real difference for either company or, indeed, for consumers. It’s just noise — a form of mutually assured destruction intended to keep each company in check.
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Intel doesn’t view Chrome OS as a threat to Moblin, just wants world peace
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 9th, 2009
Here’s an interesting one. While one would assume that Intel would be quaking in its boots with the emergence of Chrome OS, Michael Chen — director of Intel’s embedded sales group and ultra mobility group in Asia-Pacific — recently proclaimed that the company isn’t worried at all. In fact, Intel seems pretty stoked that Google has introduced an operating system that will undoubtedly rival its own Moblin. To quote: “Our long-term goal is providing hardware for devices with different operating systems… more competition will drive up more innovations and that’s good for consumers.” Furthermore, we’re told that Intel is looking forward to providing chips for machines based on Chrome OS, and frankly, we reckon that Intel’s foothold in hardware and software makes it easier to brush this whole thing off. Must be nice, right?
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First Google Chrome OS screenshots leaked? Update: it’s a fake
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 9th, 2009
- The “elegant” install on the Acer Extensa 4620Z laptop took about 10 minutes and 1 restart
- Reboots desktop-to-desktop in about 25 seconds
- It was “amazingly fast” in its stripped-down beta form
- The blue orb on the auto-hiding “Chrome Bar” along the bottom of the UI is essentially the start menu
- Navigating the file system can be done in “exploration” (like Windows explorer) or “browser” (search based) modes
- The Chrome Bar can also host a search bar if configured
- Future Chrome OS netbooks will feature an iconified Chrome key on the keyboard similar to the Windows flag key
Of course, it’s a long, long time before this OS appears on next generation ARM and x86 smartnetbooks — second half of 2010 according to the Goog — so who knows what the interface will look like by then. One more image after the break.
[Thanks, Matthew M.]
Update: We just got another set of shots of what is purportedly the boot screen. To be honest, any of these could be faked, but we thought we’d pass along — hopefully we’ll be seeing something a bit more concrete in the coming weeks. Gallery is below.
Gallery: More leaked Chrome OS shots?
Update 2: Mr. Chrome OS Leak himself has come forward and confirmed his “screenshots” to be fake. Thanks, buddy. No word on this other set of pics.
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Google Chrome OS in Context of the Google Distribution Chain, Being a Cartoon With Roughly 11 Steps and a Guest Appearance of the MS Monster
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles, Google on July 9th, 2009
Google Announced Their Operating System: Chrome OS
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles, Google on July 8th, 2009
Google announced an open source OS called Google Chrome Operating System. Google’s aim seems to make this a lightweight operating system that has a browser running web apps at its core. Many web apps being Google’s of course, or at least, that’s probably Google’s bet.
Google says Chrome OS will be initially targeted at netbooks. “Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web.” Google adds that the OS will be
“running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel”, and be available for end users in the second half of 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 8th, 2009
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser . Already, over 30 million people use it regularly.
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Google Sphere, an (Unofficial) Experiment
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles, Google on July 8th, 2009
If you have the Chrome browser available, have a look at Google Sphere. It’s an experimental third-party version of Google Images which spins around everything… navigation, image results, and so on.
At the Google Chrome Experiments entry, creator Mr. Doob comments:
If you have ever done anything with 3D you probably know that scaling is the only thing you need to give the illusion of 3D on a 2D surface. Porting my custom 3D engine from Actionscript 3 to Javascript was pretty easy and the only thing left to figure out was the z-sorting of div elements.
For the magic touch it just needed some smooth animations which is where jstween comes in.
(Hmm… perhaps decreasing the opacity for elements supposed to be further away would enhance the 3D effect?)
Microsoft’s Browser Comparison Chart
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on June 18th, 2009
Microsoft has a “Get the facts” page for Internet Explorer 8. As you can see, Internet Explorer has security, privacy, and ease of use, whereas Firefox and Chrome don’t have those. Gotta love some old-fashioned propaganda. [Via Reddit.]
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