The Google Chrome beta is now available at www.google.com/chrome. I’m taking a look, and will provide impressions, as I did for Internet Explorer 8, later today. Other information is available from ZDNet, who liveblogged the Google press conference, and from the Google Chrome media kit, which includes screenshots and videos.
CNET has published what looks to be the first picture of the Google Chrome browser in an article, Google Chrome update: First screenshot, and live-blog alert. The release looks to be scheduled for 11am US Pacific time.
Google is releasing the beta of its first web browser on Tuesday 2 September – US time, and if the media information Google has released is accurate, the product could reshape the face of web browsing over the next few years.Google Chrome is the company’s first foray into the web browsing market – but represents…
I’ve been reading a fantastic book recommended to me by my DGM, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith. It discusses 20 habits that hold back successful people and key behavioural changes that can help overcome them. One behaviour discussed is listening, where Marshall makes the statement, 80 percent of our…
My team’s web designer forwarded me the article Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign from A List Apart earlier this week. It looks at the justification behind design decisions – whether to change the design, layout and information architecture of a website or product – dividing it into two camps. Redesigners – who base their…
There are a lot of perceptions and assumptions about what the internet is – or isn’t. All of us make them – drawing conclusions about our world, often in the absence of reliable current knowledge, is part of being human. Personally I feel the need, from time to time, to get out of my own…
There’s still limited activity in the Australian corporate or government blogging area, however in other parts of the world this channel for customer or citizen engagement is growing rapidly. However not all organisations appear to be using the medium well. In July the Wall Street Journal reported on a Forrester Research study of 90 blogs…
Border control is really only a recent development in the evolution of nations. For thousands of years we can distinguish nations by their common language, culture, cuisine and other shared characteristics. However, with a few exceptions, it is only in the last few hundred years that the physical borders solidified into boundaries that delineated the…
I really admired the efforts of our New Zealand cousins in the egovernment arena as I’ve mentioned before. One of their initiatives is their ParticipationNZ wiki, which is allowing NZ public servants to collaboratively develop, assess and reflect on the overall approach to online participation by government agencies. If your agency is considering participating in…
I’d like to thank Kate Carruthers, a formidable change agent and renaissance woman, for prompting this post through a presentation she’s published on SlideShare, Enterprise 2.0 and stakeholder resistance. One of my key roles and, I believe, a key role for many in the online arena, is to be a change agent for digital channels….
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
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