we’re excited to bring several new features from Chrome’s beta channel to the stable build, including WebGL

If you don't know what WebGL is, grab the latest Chrome and go check this out. I've been following/tinkering with it lately, as WebGL was available in Chrome's Canary build up to now.  WebGL is still very much in it's infancy, yet it's still quite impressive.  A browser based 3d rendering platform backed by one of the largest internet companies? My bet this is going turn gaming upside down in a few years.

free calls to other Viber users using
3G or Wi-Fi

This is huge! Voip over the iPhone as I have long suspected is possible. Right now, as I am the only one in my calling circle who uses an Iphone, it's not much use to me, but once the Android app comes it's game on. Viber will be groundbreaking, if they are allowed to hang around, expect many variations later...Google Voice?

I know it’s not exactly headline news, but I just think that Dictionary.com is in a fairly interesting position in the market right now

A dictionary.com api? Oh my. What devilish carnations or dare I say it, mash-ups, could be created from this? I know in the past I have looked for this on their site, but apparently it was just released 'publicly' late last month. Although not very public, the usage looks pretty specific, but maybe they approve apps like Ping.fm does hehe.

What we have needed, though, is a native approach, both on the client- and server-side to be able to have bidirectional communication.

Browser based apps are the future, you did know that right? especially communication apps and games. HTML5 web sockets will play a huge roll, give it a try, very simple(and short) way of doing it here. I like these kind of tutorials.

Current sites should already work, but you may want to provide your users with an enhanced TV experience -- what's called the “10-foot UI” (user interface)

Key words here are 'should', 'may', and 'enhanced'. And I've just now friggin got down how current sites 'should' already work on phone browsers, but I 'may' want to provide users with an 'enhanced' mobile experience.

I want one. Only $299 and xmas is just around the corner..hint, hint. Tons of more utube vids, follow this one back.

If we acknowledge that network jitter can be sufficiently filtered out to allow the measurement of very small timing differences then Remote Timing Attacks are no longer impossible

A great read about timing attacks, with a focus on it's impact on php applications. I've got to tell you, this is something I had never really even thought of. The resources needed to pull off an attack like this would be extensive. But it's very possible, and a very real threat if you run a site the bad guys want into.

Effortless sharing from your iPhone has arrived with the new Posterous iPhone app

I moved to Posterous because of the already existing effortless sharing (and because I was tired of maintaining a blog I randomly neglected). Now an app, oh my.