Entries Tagged as 'Google'

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Google’s own web browser; World meet Chrome!

Google is developing its own web browser based on the open source framework webkit engine, which is also used by Apple for its Safari web browser and interconnecting applications such as mail, dashboard and itunes.
The browser called Chrome (Page not available to the public yet as of 02/09/08) has been built with speed, security and [...]

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Education Cooking with Google Apps

The NSW Education Department is now among Google’s biggest gmail clients after they recently signed up for the service. A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the NSW Education deal is one of the biggest deployments of gmail in the world. You can read the article here. Macaquarie University has also reportedly [...]

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Google Lively Machinima Potential

Although this new soon to be ubiquitous virtual world is not as vastly customisable as Second Life it has some nice useful, linear machinima features such as the rather quaint preset animations and its obvious cartoon aesthetic. I just put together a quick sequence of some of the ’solo’ animations of the toons up onto [...]

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Social Virtual Spaces start invade the Worlds of Google and Facebook

I have mentioned several times in this blog about the next big steps in the metaverse and two of my key points spring to mind, 1) Integration with existing online ‘life’ tools and 2) a company with super deep pockets, Google. So without much fanfare or pomp or circumstance ‘Lively - perpetual beta‘ was sneakily [...]