Chrome Articles

Firefox has been in the spotlight for the past few years, but now another browser is aiming to steal that attention away. That browser is none other than Google Chrome. It seems like these are very critical times as new browsers and browser versions are constantly being developed, but never has a new browser had such attention behind it. So, just how well does Chrome fair when compared to its competition?

Oh, Google, how much we overly obsess with you. We even keep up with your birthdays! You turned ten years old on September 7, 2008, and we couldn’t be more proud of you.

Ten years ago on this very day, who would have known then that you would turn into one of the most recognized brands in the world.

Within hours of Google Chrome’s entry into the Web browser arena, concerns about the browser’s privacy and copyright claims within the terms of service echoed throughout blogs and news organizations around the world.

With a unique ID embedded in each copy of Chrome, so the grumble goes, Google could use Chrome to harvest huge amounts of behavior data and potentially dramatically erode any remaining semblance of online privacy. This idea has given us pause. Is Chrome a major privacy threat or have the good net citizens of the world been overreacting?

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the weeks’ SM news in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• Google Chrome, (because yes, it IS a social media story).
• Twitter hits 99.x% Uptime
• The Scandalous Shock of Disgraceful Digg’s Bribery Scandal
• Socialmedian does Newsstreaming as Lifestreaming
• Shozu Social App hit iPhone
• Socialcast 3.0: Social Networking in the Enterprise

Google Chrome

Google launched a new browser this week. You may have heard something about it. It’s great, far as we can tell (here’s our take on Chrome), and is tailor-made for running rich web applications, because it runs RIAs in seperate tabs in their own environment, or something. Which FireFox and IE do not. Which is why FF 3 crashes like a mutha and why IE usually runs like a 3-legged dog.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is now available for download by the public. Microsoft certainly needs to push IE8 out soon — especially when considering the recent developments within the Web browsing market. The company is touting the premise that IE8 is the most secure, reliable and privacy-aware version of the product to date. Will it be enough to impress the users of other browsers while keeping up with the expectations from current users?

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera, watch out — Google is entering the fray with its shiny new creation called Chrome. Google’s newest creation will be available for download today in more than 100 countries for people using Microsoft Windows, but is the amount of drama brewing from Google’s announcement just the beginning of a new browser war? Are we prepared for what Google will bring to the table and what personal information they make take from it as a result?