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6:10 AM ET, September 2, 2008

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The Official Google Blog:
A fresh take on the browser  —  At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.”  While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well!  As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project  —  Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics.  Within the 38 pages, which I've scanned and put up, in very readable format Google gives the technical details …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Chrome Screenshots  —  Google announced their browser Google Chrome to be available on Tuesday, but their download page and tour was already partly available at gears.google.com/chrome/ just now, as Uval in the forum noticed.  While the download itself didn't work when I tried …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Meet Chrome, Google's Windows Killer  —  Make no mistake.  The cute comic book and the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft.  —  Chrome, the Webkit-based Google browser that launches tomorrow at Google.com/chrome …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google Ignites a New Browser War With Microsoft By Unveiling One of its Own This Week  —  In its most frontal and aggressive attack on Microsoft yet, sources with knowledge of the project said Google is preparing to unveil a new browser-ready for download to users as early as tomorrow-to try …
Nick / Rough Type:
The cloud's Chrome lining  —  Google's release today of a test version of its new open-source web browser, Chrome, marks an important moment in the ongoing shift of personal computing from the PC hard drive to the Internet “cloud.”  I distinctly remember when, back in 1988 …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Here's the Google Chrome Browser Comic Book: Hey Microsoft, Kaa-POW!!!  —  Here is Google's entire comic book-BoomTown's not going to say the search giant is juvenile, but a comic book?-that it is using to explain the technical details of its new browser called Chrome.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Ten Questions About Google Chrome  —  Four years ago, I blogged about rumors that Google was working on a Web browser.  I found 'em intriguing, as anyone would, but no such browser ever appeared, and Google became an enthusiastic Firefox booster.  The blogosphere pretty much stopped pondering …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Mozilla Not Worried About Google Browser  —  In response to today's news that Google is releasing its own browser, code-named Chrome, I decide to call John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla Corp., the folks behind the fast-growing Firefox browser.  My intention was to find out what Lilly thought about this development …
Discussion: Scobleizer and WinBeta
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why is Google Releasing a Browser?
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:   Google Chrome, the security tidbits
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS:
Google's Chrome and the browser end game
Discussion: The Register and ZDNet.com.au
Wall Street Journal:
Google to Launch Its Own Web Browser
Discussion: Network World and BloggingStocks
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
No Joke: Google Introduces The Chrome Browser With A Cartoon
Discussion: Shoemoney
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google OS Is Actually a Browser: Google Chrome
Discussion: The Inquisitr
John Furrier / Furrier.org:
Google Chrome What Does it Mean? …
Discussion: BroadDev
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
How Globalization Handed One Blogger a Big Scoop
Discussion: Webmetricsguru
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Google Launches Video Sharing for Business  —  Google has found a way to make money from video sharing — but not on YouTube.  The company will add video to its paid business edition of Google Apps on Monday.  In a way, Google is opening up a whole new category of online video: internal corporate video sharing.
Andrew Parker / Financial Times:
Nokia to launch music service for mobiles  —  Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, is planning to launch its new mobile music service in the UK next month, and will extend it to continental Europe and Asia next year.  —  Nokia has underlined its aim of turning the mobile music service …
Discussion: Nokia, CrunchGear and Engadget Mobile
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Ted Dziuba:
OpenID Is Why I Hate The Internet  —  I've been farting around with Jeff Atwood's StackOverflow for a few weeks now as a beta tester.  —  Everything was all well and good until I had to figure out how to use OpenID.  I've been watching the development of this s**t from the sidelines for a while …
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
MLB Hits It Out of the Park Online  —  Homer Simpson once remarked that watching baseball without beer was really boring.  That's probably because he wasn't watching the games online (d'oh!).  We've written before about the success that Major League Baseball has had this year with its web video program …
Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Facebook selling digital gifts at a $35m run rate  —  In January of this year, we estimated that Facebook was selling digital gifts worth $15m per year.  We based this estimate on an analysis of the number of each gift available each week over a 7 week period.  —  Facebook creates a certain fixed number of each type of gift.
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch:
Apple Puts One More Nail Into the CD Coffin  —  Apple will release an application next month that will provide users with interactive albums, which will include lyrics, behind-the-scenes images, and exclusive artwork.  —  According to Music Week, Apple will make the app available to users …
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