| The biggest news in tech and business that wasn't related to Wikileaks this week, was probably the unveiling of Google's new operating system - Chrome OS. Earlier this week at a special Chrome event, the company highlighted a number of new things they're doing with the Chrome browser (which has grown by 300% since January, according to Google), opened up the Chrome Web Store, and showed off the long awaited Chrome OS.
If you're not familiar with Chrome OS, you can learn more about it here, but it basically turns the Chrome browser into the entire OS. Everything is in the Cloud. It's designed to make your entire computer experience very fast from booting up to coming back from standby mode. The company launched a pilot program in which it has sent a bunch of applicants test models of an unbranded notebook computer with the operating system built in. The goal is to get people to test it and give feedback before a consumer launch (which will come sometime in 2011 beginning with models from Acer and Samsung).
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| I've always seen a great deal of potential in Facebook's advertising offering. The premise is that ads are highly targeted based on users' profile information. Theoretically, the more a user adds info about the kinds of things they like, the better idea Facebook has about what they are actually interested in, and can serve ads accordingly.
To be honest, it's been hit or miss with me. I see a lot of ads for things that I actually do like, which is more than I can say for ads in other channels, but I see a lot of ads that make me wonder why I was possibly targeted for them as well.
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