HOWTO embed Google’s V8 Javascript engine.

A list of libraries used in Google’s Chrome browser. It looks like the UI is probably Win32 using the WTL. Also interesting: NPSR is used from the Mozilla codebase.

Yet another product I had not heard of. Apparently there is some controversy about Google’s ranking of their own articles at Knol. I’ll crawl back under my rock now.

Here’s a scriptlet for displaying Google reader articles on your blog. It’s an excellent example of how to craft a small chunk of Javascript: it’s cleanly encapsulated object and unobtrusive. The only thing that could improve it would be a dash of Prototype | jQuery | Moo | Dojo.

From your 286 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 7,074 items, starred 4 items, and shared 2 items.

Google launches a web reference/encyclopedia called Doctype, under an open license, with collaborative editing. The site includes, for example, compatibility charts for popular browsers for every point of reference, and a good selection of HOWTO articles.

Google releases a much better RSS reader for the iPhone. I’ve been waiting for a rich RSS client for my iPod Touch, but this may just be good enough.

Google has released Gold, a replacement linker for the gcc tool chain. Gold boasts up to 5x faster link times over ld.

FWIW, the Google ads are gone again. They sucked. Again.

Randall Munroe, the author of the brilliant xkcd comic, has a Google author talk on YouTube. And is that Knuth asking him questions? (Or is it a joke?)