The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Image via CrunchBaseTechCrunch: Another Chrome OS Engineer Defects To Facebook In The Build-Up To Launch: 99.99 percent of my working day is currently spent in Chrome ...... a mildly worrisome trend occurring leading up to the launch of Google’s first desktop operating system: defections. Also interesting: what does Facebook want with these guys? ..... the talent continues to pour into Facebook — and much of it from Google
Image via CrunchBaseTechCrunch: In The Coming HTML5 Browser Wars, The Markup Should Remain The Same: On Monday, Google made a big splash with a customized Arcade Fire video page that showed off all the cool things HTML5 can do, from video, animations and 3D rendering to gorgeous fonts and choreographed windows. .... But until then, expect to see grandstanding about which browser does HTML5 better.Google does call Chrome a "modern browser."
Arcade Fire
- HTML5 Canvas 3D engine renders a flocking bird simulation that reacts to the music and mouse.
- HTML5 audio plays music and keeps track of timecode.
- Sequence system controls and synchronises effects and windows to the timecode.
- HTML5 video plays film clips in custom sizes.
- Choreographed windows are triggered by the music and placed relative to screen size.
- Map tiles are rendered, zoomed, and rotated in a scripted 3D environment.
- Animated sprites are composited directly over maps and Street View.
- 3D sky dome is used to render Street View with scripted camera control.
- Procedural drawing tool allows the user to create velocity influenced tree branches.
- Generative typeface triggered by keypress, uses an SVG path reader and individual canvas compositing for each letter.
- Google Maps API for fetching dynamic routes to destination and checking Street View content at points along the route.
- Street detection for animated trees composited dynamically in place over Street View.
- Color correction by combining canvas blending modes to enhance contrast and tint.
Image by Eric Schmidt / Google via CrunchBase"Our policy is we try things," the Google CEO said, hours after the company announced it was halting development of the complex real-time communication tool. "We celebrate our failures. This is a company where it is absolutely OK to try something that is very hard, have it not be successful, take the learning and apply it to something new." ..... "As a culture we don't over-promote products...we tend to sort of release them and then see what happens." .... a panel in which he said that society is not ready for all the changes technology is foisting upon it..... a range of issues ranging from Android and Chrome OS to China to competition with Microsoft to a rumored deal with Verizon on Net neutrality.My personal excitement over Google Wave ended on a personally unpleasant note. But that might have saved me some time.
Image via CrunchBase
Image via Wikipediae a tolerable replacement for a netbook or laptop ..... Chrome OS is a browser OS, and that will always be the focus. ..... Google will want this to be the simplest and cleanest browser experience out there. ..... Less need for storage and storage control, plus less demand on the CPU and other components means that the entire thing can be thinner and run cooler. .......a lightweight OS will always do more with fewer resources ...... Really instant on. All that really needs to be loaded into active memory is display, a blank browser page, and the wireless/IP stack. ..... a single-service device, crossed with the versatility of that single service ...... Chrome OS will offer a browser that you hold in your hand. ..... It’s a window into the web, and that’s all. ..... Viewing this rich, wonderful Internet of ours on a screen less than 7″ seems like self-flagellation to me. ...... the elegance and simplicity of the window into the web I hope Chrome OS will be.Google's Nexus One Exit Has Chrome OS Implications OStatic (blog) Google has announced that it has received its final shipment of Nexus One phones and will be exiting its Nexus One phone business altogether ... the Nexus One sold in the neighborhood of 150,000 units .... In a matter of weeks, Google will be introducing Chrome OS to the world. Like Android, it's an open source OS, but is aimed at netbooks.
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