Tag Archives: Chrome Web Store
Chrome Web Store Launches With 500 Apps, Some Quite Stunning
Posted on 07. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Today was the day that Google’s much-awaited Chrome Web Store was rolled out. It features applications that work in the Chrome browser, and there are certainly many applications to delve into here: there are over five hundred of them.
The Chrome Web Store melds applications, extensions and themes all into one. Applications are full-fledged games or multimedia experiences. Extensions are complements to your web browsing, and allow you at have a better time while visiting your favorite pages. Themes allow you to customize your Chrome user interface.
Chrome Event is Live!
Posted on 07. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 3 Comments
See it here in livestream. We’ll be updating developments here, just refresh your browser.
-VP Sundar Pichai on stage. In six months gone from 70 million users to 120 million Chrome users.. developing countries important to growth.
-Brian Rakowski is showing off Instant in Chrome.
-Working on making the integrated PDF reader really fast! Nice.
-Showing off WebGL examples. I have posted this in the past here.
-Google Health demo of smooth GPU processing in the browser. Layers of the human body. Emphasis on fast, and Brian leaves the stage.
-Pichai is back on stage. V8 JavaScript engine is improving immensely. V8 is getting enhancement called “Crankshaft” with adaptive compiling. 100x faster than original Chrome.
-Chrome team is constantly looking at every pixel in the browser for simplicity in the UI.
-Chrome sync is being shown. “Same Chrome experience everywhere”. Makes browser simpler.
-Talking about security. Many, many layers. Auto updates. Sandboxing. Plug-in sandboxing.
-Working with Adobe on Flash sandboxing.
-Chrome Web Store!!
-It’s hard to monetize apps. Users don’t trust unknown developers. This will be solved with Chrome Web Store.
-Showing off Sports Illustrated Snapshot webapp.
-Games are the top thing in app stores.
-CloudCanvas productivity app. Has monthly fee, but users can try it for free.
-NYTimes for Chrome webapp being shown by Mark Frons, CTO NYT. You can read this app offline, somehow.
-COO of EA John Schappert takes the stage. Showing off game called Popit. Now showing Chrome version, very fast. Full HD as well.
-Popit Embedded in Chrome 9…
-Amazon’s Eva Manolis and David Limp on stage. Showing Window Shop for retail-like experience. Something called CakePop.
http://chrome.google.com/webstore is the link to Chrome Web Store.
-Boom. Pichai talks Chrome OS. People live on the web. How do most PCs work today? Complexity is in operating system before web existed. Let’s rethink this. Chrome OS is nothing but the web. Chrome running on hardware.
-Showing login process. Asks for picture. Most people do not like this.
-Resume from standby should be instant. They show it comes up right away. They are now showing how installs/syncing between browsers is really easy.
-Now showing off sharing. Incognito mode for browsing on shared machines. Pichai says everything is private.
-Displaying collaboration in Google Docs. It will all work offline. Again, no explanation, but likely cached.
-Every Chrome notebook will have data connectivity!?! Yup 3G. Pichai says it works really well.
-Partnership with Verizon. Pay as you go! Modem by Qualcomm. 100 MB of free data every month for two years. You can pay for a plan, which starts at $9.99 for a day pass. He says no contracts, no activation fees, no overage fees or cancellation fees.
-Security. All user data will be encrypted. Startup will have digital check.
-Talking about Chrome OS for business. This intrigues CIOs. Too much money spent on lower level activities like updating software, etc.
-CIOs suggested to work with Citrix. Partnership with them on Chrome OS. Fast and responsive. Applications off machines and in datacenter.
-After you buy a regular PC, it gets slower. Pichai has been using Chrome OS for six months, and it gets faster.
-Time left to go on consumer device. Partners will be Acer and Samsung. Middle of 2011.
-Thousands of Googlers are already being used. But there are bugs. Real user program coming. Today, Chrome OS Pilot program.
-Name is Cr-48 for testing the software. 12.1″ display. Full size keyboard. 3G built in. Dual band wifi. 8 hours of active use.
-Jailbreak mode is a feature!!
-Businesses will have pilot programs. American Airlines, Kraft, Logitech. Call centers. Department of Defense!
-Consumers: New tab page will have an application form.
-Limited number of users.
-Eric Schmidt hits the stage. Problems with cloud computing in the past laid out.
-Chrome OS will become the third viable platform in IT.
-No word on when CR-48 will ship.
Some Chrome Web Store Screenshots Appear
Posted on 07. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
Google has worked to upload some new videos into their Chrome YouTube channel this morning, but the clips currently are not available for viewing. However, there are some screenshots to take a look at of what appears to be some graphic-rich webapps. One is most certainly a game while the other looks to be a digital version of Sports Illustrated.
The first shot comes from a video titled “Chrome OS Tour”. No hiding what that will be about.
Google Cloud Print Requires Chrome 9
Posted on 06. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 32 Comments
Google’s printing service for Chrome and Chrome OS is called Google Cloud Print. Unbeknownst to me, it is already in Beta, but you’ll need to have Chrome 9 in order for it to work. Does that mean there will be no printing on initial previews of Chrome OS devices that may be happening tomorrow. At this point it’s hard to tell.
Video: TweetDeck CEO Talks ChromeDeck
Posted on 06. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
Not many executives have gone on the record to talk about their Chrome Web Store apps, but TweetDeck CEO Iain Dodsworth is talking up ChromeDeck. Scheduled to be released with the launch of the Chrome Web Store, ChromeDeck will be a webapp that organizes all of you Twitter streams right in your browser.
Will you try ChromeDeck? I’m sure I will. Stay tuned for a review when it is released. Also, if you find other people talking up their Chrome webapps, let us know.
Confirmed: Google Chrome Event December 7
Posted on 03. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
via Engadget
Developers: Get Ready for Chrome Web Store; December 7 Seems Real
Posted on 03. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
Google is taking some time to email Chrome extension developers about the fact the the Chrome Web Store will be launching very soon. As we’ve said many times before, Chrome OS and the Chrome Web Store very much go hand in hand with one another for a launch. Indeed, even All Things Digital, who will be holding a conference in San Francisco next week where an unveiling may happen, is announcing that the webapp store will be launched December 7.
Remember, this may all just be a preview for what’s to come. But surely Google has been working on this project quite hard all year. Hopefully we’ll see not just a glimpse but an actual product that will be available soon. That, of course, remains to be seen.
Could this be like the launch for the Nexus One where sales of a device started almost immediately? That would very much be ideal. With the holiday season approaching here in the US, getting devices into the mail prior to shipping deadline week would be optimal. It’s all dependant on how comfortable Google feels about their product.
What are you expecting for next week?
Google Cloud Picker: Another Part of the Cloud Ecosystem
Posted on 03. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
The launch of the Chrome OS platform is very dependent on Google having a number of other services available for users. After all, being a cloud operating system will require heavy usage of the web. So when reports started emerging of Google’s Cloud Picker service accidently being sent into the wild, I thought about how storage in Google Docs is not really going to suffice for media files and the like.
Despite my reservations for the name itself, Cloud Picker will find its place among yet-to-be released services like the Chrome Web Store, Chromoting and Cloud Print as an important facet for Chrome OS users. I’m excited to try it out.
Chrome Web Store Gets New Logo, Release Coming Soon?
Posted on 30. Nov, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 3 Comments
We’ve all thought that the Chrome Web Store would have made its debut by now. But that obviously has not been the case. Nevertheless, development work on Chrome’s app store is moving along quickly as evidenced by, for example, an option in Chromium to remove the CRX extension requirement with the option to use manifest files, which is a method of installing hosted webapps.
Acer Likely to be One of First Chrome OS Manufacturers
Posted on 24. Nov, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
It was tablet glory for Acer yesterday in New York as they unveiled a lineup of slates and a smartphone running Android. Those devices won’t be released until 2011, but more importantly the company did do a bit of talking about Chrome OS. A company official told those at the press conference that Acer will have a Chrome OS netbook available next year.
eWeek: Android Likely Changing Chrome OS Strategy
Posted on 21. Nov, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
It appears as if we won’t see a Chrome OS device on the market before the end of 2010. That may be because of the resounding success that Android has had over the past year.
Looking back to this time twelve months ago, there were no tablets and Android was but a niche player in the smartphone market. This was the time when Chrome OS was first previewed and the source code was opened.
In an article written by eWeek’s Clint Boulton, he quotes IDC analyst Al Hilwa on a possible shift by Google in its cloud strategy.
“Something happened on the way to birth Chrome OS, and it is called Android,” Hilwa said. “Android has taught Google that maybe the cloud is not everything and there are ways to change the OS market dynamics without a pure cloud approach.”
We’ve talked in this space about the Chrome OS rival Jolibook netbook, which runs a version of Linux that allows one to install native Ubuntu applications as well as runs webapps through Chromium. Perhaps that may be a path that Google takes.
With so much riding on the success of the Chrome Web Store and Chrome itself, that doesn’t seem likely, however. Google is championing the web in its marketing and has a better chance trying to push an entirely new alternative in terms of operating systems with Chrome OS as it is.
Still, there must be a reason behind this delay, right?
via eWeek
Video: Google Cloud Security
Posted on 09. Nov, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 6 Comments
Gooogle security researcher Ulfar Erlingsson spoke in July at the Google Faculty Summit on cloud computing and software security.
While users aren’t supposed to have to worry about security and other associated software problems with cloud computing, it requires careful thought and planning for the provider. This talk delves into webapps, Chrome and the Chrome Web Store.
via ReadWriteWeb
