Google Chrome 0.4.154.18 has been released to the Dev channel ONLY. This release introduces a couple of new features (and, as always, fixes a few bugs).

Lively, Google’s virtual world, has been a flop

“Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, believe that expanding their company’s lobbying operation in Washington, D.C., has become a necessity.”

JavaScript lib to make IE behave like a standards-compliant browser

“Online mapping is evolving into a historic nexus of disparate technologies and communities that is changing the fundamental use of the Internet, as well as redefining the concept of maps in our culture.”

create, share, and tag your own Google Map w/o resorting to the Google Maps API.