| New on Webware.com |  | Google Chrome now works on Linux, sort of
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google is tight-lipped about the Linux version of its Chrome browser, but the company's programmers have proved a bit more forthcoming with a brief announcement that they have a crude version of Chrome working on Linux. Read more |  | GMail gets video chat
Posted by Rafe Needleman
Google is rolling out video and voice capabilities for the chat function that is embedded in the Gmail interface. It's a bare-bones voice and video-conferencing service, but it's simple to install and use and is a very good addition to Gmail. Read more | | A scientific formula for Digg popularity
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Bernardo Huberman, Hewlett-Packard's director of the HP Social Computing lab, and fellow researcher Gabor Szabo have published a highly detailed report (PDF) on "predicting the popularity of online content." Focusing on content submitted and popularized on popular social sites Digg.com and Google's YouTube, the two concocted not one, but three ways to predict how much traffic and overall user interaction a story or submitted video will receive well after it hits its initial popularity. Read more | | OpenSocial turns one, previews version 0.9
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
On Thursday MySpace hosted a developer event in its San Francisco offices to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the OpenSocial application platform. Google took the chance to discuss plans for the upcoming 0.9 version of OpenSocial, which will feature a huge number of changes under the hood--many of which will improve the speed and overall efficiency of hosted apps. Read more | | Web-based Office to work on Macs, iPhone
Posted by Ina Fried
A Microsoft blog reiterated this week that the Web-based version of Office won't be tied to either Windows or Internet Explorer. In a blog posting on its Channel 10 site, a Microsoft blogger noted that, owing to support of Firefox and Safari, the forthcoming Office Web Applications will run on Linux and the iPhone. Read more | | | | Cool new iPhone apps | | | Voice access for Google Search
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Google is releasing version two of its mobile search application for the iPhone. The big change is the addition of search-by-voice, which lets you skip the keyboard entirely. Read more | | i.TV's iPhone app gets Netflix integration
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
i.TV, the movie and TV show listing service for the iPhone, pushed out a cool update that marries the idea of its live content guide with services that can take advantage of the iPhone platform. Read more | | | | | Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most |
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