By using the software you “give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services”

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http://www.comicrelated.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2675

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/26/matt-groenings-macin.html

Google’s marketing folks could have gone in any number of directions with the launch, but they chose comics.

For comics aficionados, it doesn’t get any better than this.

Congrats to Scott! I hope your wallet is substantially fatter now!

As for McCloud “selling out”, I find that hard to see when dealing with a topic that Scott McCloud is so obviously fascinated with. I imagine he had a lot of fun doing this type of project (which is why I imagine Google approached him for it).

That said, I think the browser kind of sucks. It feels like a very early alpha product than a public beta product. It’s suppose to be fast, but everything just takes FOREVER to load with it. To the point that while waiting for pages I was able to open a new tab in Firefox, type in the URL have the page load and start reading before any content has loaded in Chrome. On top of that there’s the the lack of home button, lousy way of dealing with bookmarks, non-OS GUI (I’m using Windows XP but get the Vista GUI with Chrome) and overall lack of customization that Firefox has.

Some cool ideas with threading individual web pages, tabs on the top and other features, but overall I think it’s a really poor implementation, which I found quite surprising coming from Google. I’ll definitely be sticking with Firefox and see if Google’s Chrome gets better with time.

OT: Rereading the b&w ZOT! tales this month was a treat.

Guess they’d rather see us barefoot, poor and selling our drawings on street corners.

Actually, Scott McCloud should be making his living off of micropayments.

Go Scott McCloud, get that paper.

Guess they’d rather see us barefoot, poor and selling our drawings on street corners.

Which is able to be read easily and loads quickly.

I’ll invoke the Microsoft Dot Zero rule. If a software version ends in “.0″ (for example: Windows 3.0), wait for the update.

I will also wait for the first malware to hit Chrome, to see how everything works.

As for the comics, it’s pretty darn cool. I think we’ll be seeing more of this sort of thing. Not too surprizing, as there are many “graphic” computer manuals out there which are almost all completely screen snapshots with a simple mascot explaining each process.

(Those little web crawlers (heh) on page nine are kinda creepy.

Wow… Page 22: Your homepage looks like a sunday comic! I hereby invent: GOOGLE COMICS! Create a tab page with your nine most visited websites, so that they create a narative of some sort. (Sort of like those postage stamp naratives MAD Magazine ran in the 1980s.)

Google Chrome is audacious. I’m fairly computer savy, but there’s some stuff here I don’t understand fully, but the comic does a pretty good job of explaing the intention, even if I don’t fully understand the background. In other words, I know how to drive a car, know that the engine runs on a synchronized series of explosions, but I couldn’t change the oil or tell you which hose goes where.