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Google Chrome: Google OS cornerstone?

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Odrakir
on September 2, 2008
in Computer Stuff, Google and Web 2.0
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Google Chrome

Today, Google announced it’s new web browser. In merely 48 hours, the was drenched in all the hype caused by leaked comic book scans and screenshots an plenty of rumors, that in the end became true.

An hour and a few minutes have passed since the beta version of and it’s probably one of the most downloaded browsers in launch day, I dare say, like or close to Mozilla Firefox 3. This only proves that people love everything that’s related and that they trust .

is like .com homepage page: simple and effective. The team mishmashed a few ideas from existing browsers, like Firefox and Opera, used Webkit (from Safari) and applied some ideas of their own for security and stability. I won’t go in details here, you can read a lot about that in the Google Chrome Comic. The result, from what I’ve tested, is a piece of software that will change the way that we’ll use the . It’s easy to use for the common user, powerful, stable, very user friendly and fast.

But is not just a . It’s the cornerstone of a possible OS. I can imagine now a small distribution with a small footprint, loaded with apps like Earth, Picasa and a fully integrated , transforming all those webapps (Gmail, Tal, Calendar, etc…) we use into applications (through the Gears module in ). Boot that from a USB pen drive and you have a portable OS, a thin client ready for the , using the cloud for storage, etc… the applications are endless. You can already have this, with and few quirks, but I believe itself will create and optimize it’s own OS.

After all, the is ’s business and, the more it can keep us online, the better.

Dear Mr. Google…

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Odrakir
on June 17, 2008
in Code and Google
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Mr. came out with version 3 and your Browser Sync Plugin is not supported. Can you please update it?

Thanks!

Google Embeded Presentations

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Odrakir
on January 6, 2008
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Yup… They did it again :) Just like a YouTube movie, you can now embed Presentations into any website.

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Come Again???

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Odrakir
on January 4, 2008
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This is what happens if you translate from English to Portuguese in Translate… I smell a conspiracy coming up ;)

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Gmail Video

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Odrakir
on August 6, 2007
in Google
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The guys at Gmail are making a cool “Add your clip to this video” campaign/project. They show you a video with people passing the Gmail envelope and you just have to print the Gmail envelope, make a video with it and submit it. You can check some of the user submitted clips here and read more about it here.

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Google Web History

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Odrakir
on April 24, 2007
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If you have a Account and the Toolbar installed on your with PageRank enabled, you’re one step away from using Google Web History, a new feature that allows to keep track of every page you visit. This can be handy if you want to keep a record of your surfing but it’s a hell of a profiling tool for , actually this is the closer that they profile you without inserting a RFID tag on you. ’s “do no evil” philosophy is beginning to show some cracks with projects like this. We can use our own history for tracking our visited sites, probably in a way not so functional as this new feature allows, but it’s a matter of , Microsoft or to improve the browsers history features. Giving your data to means they will use it some how… let’s hope it’s for the best.

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Google’s April Fools

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Odrakir
on April 1, 2007
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Update

Another one: GMail Paper :)

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Google Supports GeoRSS, KML in Maps API

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Odrakir
on March 28, 2007
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Announced a few days ago, Maps API now supports GeoRSS and KML. This really comes in handy for one of my current projects :D time to fiddle with this new features and see if we can “struck gold”.

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Google testing a new kind of Ad

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Odrakir
on March 21, 2007
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According to the NY Times, is testing in a new ad idea where the advertiser only pays when the ad spurs a consumer to take an action, be it purchasing a product, subscribing to a newsletter or even ask for more details about a product or a service.

The pay per click method has proven it’s value but it still has many flaws that seem not to overcome. Click farming still plagues the Ad business and has become very frustrating for advertises that spend thousands or even millions of dollars in Ads. With this new ad idea, seems to introduce a more fair ad system, still they say that that cost-per-action program won’t replace Ad Words, instead it will figure in publishers’ sites and essentially creating its own affiliate marketing network. Though this isn’t a new market, ’s entering might bring more advertisers into it.

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It’s the iPhone!… No, wait! It’s the Google Phone!

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Odrakir
on March 16, 2007
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Rumor addicts really need their daily fix. Now that the mother of all rumors has been out (aka the iPhone), a new substitute was in demand. Presenting the Phone.

First we get some guy on a forum that even posts a photo of the device (probably photoshoped) along with the some specs.

“The Phone brings the power of the in your pocket, in a simple and intuitive device. It combines the traditional voice and SMS capabilities of phones with all the exciting services from the PC such as Search, Gmail, Maps, Blogger…

The Phone, designed by Samsung, is a very thing and stylish handset with a large screen and a QWERTY keypad so that it provides a real experience.”

Yesterday Engadget came up with sort of a confirmation from a exec (which by the way is on Spainish division), saying that actually it exists and it’s just another product among another 17 R&D projects… I can hear the rumor mongers starting their photoshops…

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