< Jeremy’s YouTube Pick of the Week #1: Google Chrome >

Hello out there in Internet Land!  We’re excited to be launching our new web site, and look forward to working with our clients, both new and old, on their interactive web experiences.

Each week here on on our blog, I’ll be sharing with you an interesting video found on YouTube that’s related to technology or other work-safe topics. 

This week, we’ll start things off with a pretty good introduction to the new web browser from Google, Chrome.

It should be noted that Chrome is very much a “Beta” product, meaning it is a work in progress.  It is probably far from complete (it may never be “complete”, which is common with Google applications) and there are likely a number of security flaws in it (at least two have been discovered already).  Chrome should not be used as your everyday browser on any personal or business computer containing sensitive data or applications that you can’t risk losing.  Use it with care.

If you do want to use Chrome as your regular browser, and really put it through its paces, I’d strongly recommend installing it on a clean machine (or virtual machine) that you could afford to wipe clean, if you had to, without losing anything that’s important to you.

So, why Chrome?  It seems to us here at redPear that Google has released Chrome not to compete with the existing browsers in the marketplace (or “knock out IE”, as some suggested upon its release) but to positively influence the marketplace, and show those existing players (Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, et al) a better way.  To improve the technologies, the performance, and the whole web browsing experience for everyone, regardless of which browser they choose.  (I sound like such a Google evangelist.  I swear I am not. :))

If you download, install, and fire up Chrome, you will notice a number of differences in the look and feel of the browser, and some very cool new features.  This week’s video talks about a number of them.

If you’d like to learn more about Chrome than what’s presented in the video, you can read Google’s comic book (yes, a comic book).  There are some other introductory Chrome videos on YouTube as well.

My opinion is that it’s worth giving Chrome a try if you can, and deciding for yourself if you like it!

Without further ado, here’s the video:

If you have any feedback on Chrome, have a good video you’d like to share (on any tech or business topic), or have any suggestions as to what we should cover here on our blog, email us@tasteredpear.com.

See you next week!

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