Interesting artritcle from Ben at Mashable:

http://mashable.com/2009/11/19/impact-of-chrome-os/?utm_source=feedburner&...

With the Google Revenue Equation in mind, it’s easier to understand Google’s primary motivations for creating an OS based entirely off the browser. The more time we spend browsing the web, the more money Google makes. It’s that simple. Thus, Google’s primary goal is to get us on the web more.

That’s exactly what Chrome OS does: its interface is 100% web, thus you are always browsing if you’re using Chrome OS. Every app is a web app. Plus, Chrome OS loads in seconds, getting you on the web faster.

In order for Google to accomplish its goal of getting us on the web more, it has to eliminate time sinks and anything that distracts someone from surfing the web on the computer. Thus, one of Google’s goals is to destroy the desktop.

There is no desktop on Google’s new operating system, but that’s only the beginning. Google may only be looking to launch on netbooks next year, but make no mistake: it hopes to have a strong presence laptops and desktops everywhere within the next five to seven years. Not only that, but it hopes that the influence of Chrome OS is powerful enough to push all future operating systems to be more web-centric.

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A new report launched today, reveals ten online retailing trends for the 2010s and the most important actions online retailers should take to grow their business post-recession. The findings forecast that monetisation of online retail sites could be worth up to £949m by 2013.
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 Facebook accounts for 6% of all US internet traffic and is far ahead of rival Twitter, which seems to have stopped growing, according to Hitwise data. The research firm says Facebook is on its way to becoming ubiquitous, while traffic to Twitter is falling. Facebook’s share of US traffic has risen steadily from little more than 1% this time last year to 6.1% in October. Traffic to Twitter peaked at just over 0.2% in July this year, but its share of US internet visits has since dropped to 0.14%.
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The Internet will now allow users to create web and e-mail-addresses using non-Latin characters, opening up the Web to billions of people around the world. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has given the green light to the change at its board meeting taking place in Seoul, South Korea. This would include characters as diverse as Arabic, Korean, Hebrew, Chinese, Greek, Hindi and Cyrillic (Russian). Until now, anyone wanting to set up a website has been forced to include a few characters of Latin script in the address, or domain name, that they choose. 
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