Now, we have two guys (sorry, I will fill in their names later, but they talked fast) who are demoing Google’s new Chrome browser and its features and user interface.

“Friendly” tabs, knowing your history better graphically, auto-typing, simplicity, easier downloading with a new window that one guy is calling a real app like “Pinocchio, because I wanted to build a real boy.”

Well, Pinocchio was wood for most of that story, but I like the effort!

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I am not sure what to think of this wacky video from Google that Tinu Abayomi-Paul wants to be able to download off the Web. It’s a video made by the search giant to show off the new Street View feature in its maps product, except using a guy in an orange suit who gears [...]

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The first video Mischael Cetoute said that he wanted to download was a bit too “Chongalicious” for our Web site (you can look that video up yourself on YouTube), although he noted, “It’s really popular down here in Miami.”
Gallantly, he sent us another one, embedded below, which is called “How To Crank Dat Soulja Boy,” [...]

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I’ll admit it–I had never heard of the Swingle Singers until Srinivasan Rajagopal sent me a link from India, where he lives as a self-described “music nut” and “YouTube maven.” Indeed, he also provided me with 16 clips he would download from the Web were he to get his hands on new software to do [...]

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Howard Fishman’s selection of a Web video he would like to download: A live performance of the Beatles.
RealNetworks is offering the beta software of its RealPlayer 11, which allows users one-click downloading of non-DRM-protected video from the Web, to AllThingsD.com visitors to try out before it is released later this month.
CEO Rob Glaser debuted [...]

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In the rush of D5, I neglected to make those interested an offer I am sure you will not refuse–RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser has given me 50 beta accounts to hand out to AllThingsD.com visitors to test out the new RealPlayer 11, which now allows users one-click downloading of nonprotected video from the Web.

Glaser debuted [...]

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