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Google officially announced the forthcoming release of an open source, royalty-free video format called WebM. Using the VP8 codec that Google acquired from On2 last February, the format is backed by fellow browser makers Mozilla and Opera.
In April, rumors about the open sourcing of VP8 started to take off, but the implications of what VP8 — and now WebM — might mean has been somewhat clouded by the bigger battle between Apple and Adobe over HTML5, Flash and the future of mobile platforms.
While WebM is not currently part of the HTML5 spec, it will be added as a supported part of the tag for the Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers.
Today I noticed that Youtube has a “new look” on the updated version of Google Chrome. 
As you have noticed on my screenshot. The video description is now located below the video and the related videos has increased in numbers. After further exploration I found out that there’s a statistics section on which areas around the world has the most viewers as well as the number of male or female watching it.
Personally, I liked the new look however is this for Chrome only or this would be the new look that user will expect in the coming days. Let’s wait and see.
The Nexus One is a smartphone from Google that uses the Android open source mobile operating system.The device is manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corporation, and became available on January 5, 2010. Features of the phone include the ability to transcribe voice to text, noise canceling dual microphones, and voice directions while driving.
The phone comes unlocked and is not restricted to any particular mobile network provider.
View the Nexus One Full Technical Specifications
Engadget’s Review of the Nexus One
Two key pieces of Google’s effort to make Chrome a more competitive browser fell into place on Tuesday as Google released beta versions of the browser for Mac OS X and Linux.
Tuesday’s software release is a version of Chrome that had previously been available only as developer preview software for Mac and Linux machines. “It took longer than we expected, but we hope the wait was worth it,” product manager Brian Rakowski said in a blog post.
Macs are widely used, if not as common as Windows machines, and there’s been some demand in tech circles for the Mac version of Chrome. Linux, while less widely used among ordinary computer users, has importance of its own: it’s the foundation for Chrome OS. That’s the browser-based operating system Google hopes will be popular on Netbooks starting next year.
According to the Chromium development calendar, the beta versions are scheduled to graduate to the next level of maturity, “stable,” on January 12. Chrome for Windows graduated out of beta almost exactly a year ago.
I blogged about Google Wave on how this service would make things easier for us users to collaborate on some projects. With that in mind, Google has given me Google Wave invitations to give away, so if you wanna have your own Google Wave then please do leave a comment with your Gmail add. This is a limited time offer and I will only take the first fifteen people.
Today the interwebs is dominated by news and excitement surrounding the official launch of Google Wave.
In a nutshell, Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files.
As of this writing , I am hoping to receive an invite from my fellow Google users.
Click this link for an in-depth, complete guide about Google Wave
With the advent of Google announcing that Chrome will soon have browser extensions, Google made the upgrade Chrome without us knowing. Now we can enjoy the new themes and I am personally impressed with it’s speed.
If you have not installed Google Chrome yet, I encourage you to do so. Download Google Chrome 3 now!