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The importance of ubiquity

By Scott Barnes
October 23, 2009

I've spent a few years studying the behavioral pattern associated with ubiquity, and I'm surprised at what I've learned along the way. Here right now, I'm going to unload my findings, and it's up to you to keep an open...

Google Releases Chrome Frame

By Andrew Trice
September 25, 2009

In an interesting move, Tuesday, Google released the "Chrome Frame", a plug-in that will allow you to run Google Chrome inside of Internet Explorer. This allows you to take advantage of HTML5 elements (including Canvas), and the V8 JavaScript engine.

Google Releases Chrome Experiments

By Andrew Trice
March 19, 2009

Google recently released http://www.chromeexperiments.com/. It's a collection of Javascript-based experiments designed to show off the speed of the Google Chrome browser.

Turbo-charging JavaScript - Trace Trees and V8

By Kurt Cagle
September 21, 2008

Persistence, performance, rich APIs and increasing broadband connectivity are all likely to make a huge difference for this latest generation of browsers, and the quantum improvement of JavaScript capabilities due to Trace Trees and precompiled JavaScript will likely play a major part in that evolution.

Simplifying your Firefox life with Chrome

By Martin Kelley
September 9, 2008

The big secret about the Google Chrome browser is that it's faster in some tests, slower than other. But guess what? As I wrote in my first review, few of us are going to notice any difference. The best part...

Microsoft Missing the Boat on Mobile?

By Tim O'Reilly
September 6, 2008

Yesterday's Microsoft Watch had an incisive article about Microsoft's failure to compete in the mobile phone marketplace. Echoing my own assertions that Microsoft's obsessive focus on competition with Google in search is a massive distraction, while open mobile is Google's most strategic initiative, Joe Wilcox notes: Microsoft must change its priorities. The company has wasted too much time chasing...

Linux Status Page for Chromium

By M. David Peterson
September 4, 2008

For those of you (such as myself) who have interest in Chromium (The foundation of which Google Chrome is build upon) running on Linux, Seo Sanghyeon has created a status page over on the Google Groups Chromium-Dev site. http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/web/linux-status...

Scott Berkun on Chrome

By chromatic
September 3, 2008

Google Chrome has interesting implications for the web and technology, but how does it work as a browser? Scott Berkun's initial review of the browser as only a browser is the most interesting.

Google Chrome: The Comic

By RJ Owen
September 3, 2008

Google chose to launch its Chrome browser with a comic book about the browser, among other things. In this entry I talk about the book itself, its value as a piece of information design, and a little about the book's author, renown comic book artist Scott McCloud.

Reflecting Upon Chrome

By Kurt Cagle
September 3, 2008

Scott McCloud may not have intended to become the icon for Google's most recent efforts, but the choice of the veteran cartoonist (and semiotician) was a master stroke on the part of Google for introducing their new web browser, Chrome. McCloud's spare, clean lines, intellectual positing and delicious manipulation of symbols could not better have captured Google's secret skunkworks project. McCloud was commissioned to create a series of web comic pages that would explain the inner workings of the new Google Chrome browser, intended for release later this month, but a fan of McCloud's work apparently leaked the comic early, forcing Google to announce their latest (and arguably most audacious) project to date. As it turns out, the extra month or so of work probably wouldn't have made that much difference - even in beta, it is likely that Chrome has completely changed the balance of power on the web. Rumors that Google has been working on a web browser have been repeatedly heard for years now, but the assumption has long been that Google's physical proximity to Mozilla's headquarters and its general commitment to server-side technology precluded any real benefit for Google in building a browser of its own. Those assumptions, however, appear now to have been wrong.

Building V8 On Linux With GCC 4.3

By M. David Peterson
September 2, 2008

via a recent post to the V8-Dev mailing list, the always impressive Seo Sanghyeon provided the following info and patch related to building the V8 virtual machine on Linux via GCC 4.3: Hello, everybody, I had to do the following...

Google Chrome: Not Invented Here Syndrome Invades Mountain View

By M. David Peterson
September 2, 2008

It seems Google has decided the world needs Yet Another WebKit-based Browser: Chrome. Chrome? That's the best they could come up with?! Well, more on that later. In the mean time it seems we got a little investigative work to get done. Here's what we've got so far...

Google Enters The Browser Market

By Andrew Trice
September 2, 2008

It's been all over the blog world today... Google's chrome. Well, it is finally out, and it can be downloaded here.

Google Chrome: A new web browser from Google

By Richard Monson-Haefel
September 2, 2008

Google is going to release its own open source web browser called, Google Chrome.

Hayward Marsh in Black and White

By Harold Davis
July 15, 2008

Briefly noted: This is a black and white version of my photo of the Hayward Marsh. I prepared the black and white version for an environmental magazine doing a story on marshes created using reclaimed waste water (as is the case with the Hayward Marsh, south of Oakland, California). Hayward Marsh, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Some...

Hayward Marsh in Black and White

By Harold Davis
July 15, 2008

Briefly noted: This is a black and white version of my photo of the Hayward Marsh. I prepared the black and white version for an environmental magazine doing a story on marshes created using reclaimed waste water (as is the case with the Hayward Marsh south of Oakland, California). Hayward Marsh, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Some...

Hexachrome Color

By Harold Davis
June 21, 2008

The Lithographers Club of Chicago is a printing industry trade group. They selected an image of mine to use for the cover of their May/June 2008 magazine issue (the cover is shown below). Printing was contributed by Komori (they are a large manufacturer of printing presses) and demonstrates the Hexachrome process-color system. I'll explain Hexachrome color later in this story....

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