The Ojai Post

This puts the announcement in a bit more context:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/182743/five_reasons_google_chrome_os_will_succeed.html

I'm intrigued, because I'm interested in being "geographically independent" in my work, but bandwidth here in the US is completely inadequate for a full migration, particularly in terms of video editing and the massive amounts of raw content associated with it.

Interestingly, at the same time Google continues to develop Google Gears, which allows programs to be run locally without the internet, and then seamlessly synced when you do go online.

Smart dudes and dudettes at Google, no doubt.

downloading the Mac (dev) version now ... will see it it functions well enough as a browser at this stage of its development ...

ok ... Google Chrome Mac dev is working, I am using it to browse and comment here. it was interesting to observe that in the release I had to sign, it gives google the right to automatically upload my private data, or to install or remove or modify 'extensions' ...

of course, all the browsers and the internet have always 'allowed' this ...

Yeah, but....I don't like the idea of any ISP, and hence, any internet hacker, governments included, to have access to my personal docs, photos, music, etc., on my personal hard drive--kinda like giving all your files to the bank to store without a key!

how then are you able to participate here??

it's the conundrum of the internet -- two billion users 'strong' -- set up to be beyond any copyright or privacy provisions to allow free speech/inquiry -- beyond the law, vulnerable to any sort of economic or other theft -- yet subject to infinite theoretical liability in the courts by the 'agreements' you have to sign to subscribe to an email provider, or have a blog or a browser --

just another member of the global intelligence community, without any rights but with the ability to seek redress or protection from any of the millions of 'gods', power-brokers in the chain-of-command ... what did they used to call that, a feudal economy?

I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?