Google Chrome 0.4.154.18 has been released to the Dev channel ONLY. This release introduces a couple of new features (and, as always, fixes a few bugs).

Lively, Google’s virtual world, has been a flop

Allows you to define people whose online activity you follow. Wikipedia-style edits, no accounts, cookie based storage.

browse.delicious is visual browser that let users explore and browse through a sample data-set of del.icio.us to see and understand the connections and relations of its entities

create, share, and tag your own Google Map w/o resorting to the Google Maps API.

It’s Urchin, purchased, rebranded, and integrated with AdWords. Also: it costs nothing but your Google cookie (w/ a 5MB pageview cap for non-AdWords subscribers).

Microsoft is entering the world of—wait for it—Web Services (e.g. Web2.0) in a big way. “Firefox support”, whatever that is, supposedly coming soon.