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. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.

This is just the beginning — Google Chrome is far from done. We’re releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we’re committed to continuing on their path. We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others — and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

Recently I downloaded the ubuntu source for linux2.6.24-18.32, which is 8.04 latest. I need the i386 modules in ABI to finish the compile for Verdis, there there but there not the right ones. I often lose place of myself in the Linux Terminal when it comes to things like this. I need /linux2.6.24/debian/abi/2.6.24-18.32(verdis)6/i386/386.modules – but instead I only have abi/2.6.24-17.36/ – whats up with that? Right now I just found another package of linux source code labeled 2.6.24-18.32, hopefully it will have the correct modules. If anyone recognizes what I’m doing wrong, please assist me. It’s probably minor. Once I get Verdis compiled I think I will open a repo host of the latest linux source codes in order on one simple download page, so no-one else has to go through things like this. I personally think ubuntu is doing a good job, but it’s a bit jumbled and out of order for me.

• click here to download 1600×1200
• click here to download 1280×1024

My compile of Verdis crashed with some ABI modules in the linux 2.6 kernel i was compiling, I fixed it though. Found out that I didn’t have the i386 modules in place. So I got that sorted out, at the reate of this compile I should have results for the next compile tomorrow morning.

Anyways that’s not what I wanted to write about, I’ve started out some new website projects on my server that you will see up and running within the next week or so. I’ve been working on these projects for a while. The majority came from open source projects, but they had a lot of bugs, so I fixed them and wen’t on modifying the codes to what I need. They are a number of web services and applications. The following projects are all licensed with the MIT License, some are under Creative Commons…

First off, I am starting an online magazine called “Green Society Magazine”; it’s going to be a magazine about almost everything from culture to technology to music to fashion to politics, and a lot of other things…

My second project is called “Spacegeist,” it’s really for my senior exit project but it will be another personal website of mines with a bunch of stuff on it. Not much of a service but people can register and join in on the fun. The cool part is, is that it’s an evolving website that will do what it wants… more genetic algorithms… lol

My third project is “My Green Budget,” it is an online budget/ finance management system. Its user friendly and has a lot of nice features to it. It came to me when I was reading this month’s GQ issue about the down fall on the economy, and the authors testimonial to the effects it’s been having, and how we should be looking forward to recession. The economy is not looking it’s best, so I decided for me to get ahead is to manage my spending habits and the little money I have. This will also be useful when college comes around next year… if I can afford it!!! LOL (I’m seriously thinking of joining the military to pay for college, there benefits are looking really good!!!)

My fourth project is called “FlickStreamr,” it will be a simple WordPress blog that allows people to stream movies on it. Of course, from 3rd party sources. The blog will only post the best movie sources and screening, no bootlegs etc…

My fith project will be “the universal eye,” which is sort of like Flickr, where it allows photographers, and any body else to post photos online, it’s really simple. Sign-up, upload, and share… The coolest features of the website will be in the community part and the “grand collage.” The grand collage will be a collage of random users photos smashed and jumbled together on a web page. Hopefully it will be a application that features higher rating photos in the collage.

My sixth minor project, which is port 28 of the ZocialNET, it has came out so nice I decided it deserves it’s own domain. “ZocialOS.com” – Port 28 is an online web browse desktop environment operating system that features a kernel, and lots of cool applications. Anyone can sign up and get an account on the system. It even has an ftp, and documents etc… It’s like taking your desktop everywhere on the road.

My seventh project, “Jabber Board,” is a online chat system that will allows people to come in and chat, create rooms, and channels, pm, all that, it’s basically an online chat client and message board together. The board is phpbb3.

Those are my near future projects, so they will be a great addition to the network. Also Huntersville’s new website is almost complete and I can’t wait to have it 100% ready for them!

The ZocialNET is incomplete but when you visit the website AC/DC will be playing, that’s one clue to let you know it’s not done. But the ZocialNET will be a fast loading web application that I plan on building up more in applications as if it were an online OS as well.

The ZocialNET is a significant web feature. It will change the way people connect on the internet. It will combine the human element with the internet. Check out www.zocialnet.com to see the minor progress is the application.