![]() ![]() They’re Chrome extension (not app) is pretty nifty too. I love seeing how far this site has come along. My only quirk with this app is that the articles are shown in mobile format. After allowing it to find me, it told me a lot more about my Brooklyn backyard that I’ve only been aware of through word of mouth. Previously only available for iPhones and iPads (iTunes Link), Wikihood makes its way into the Chrome Web Store with some nice features. It’s quite the treat with unqiue offerings and those column layouts Tweetdeck is so famous for. In a well-thought marketing move, Tweetdeck has launched as its web version as an app for Chrome’s Web Store. Competitors Seesmics, Hootsuite, and CoTweet are taking the cake with their web offerings and that didn’t seem to bother Tweetdeck for a long time. Tweetdeck made a really smart move here! Previously, there was no web version of Tweetdeck, only desktop and mobile offerings where Tweetdeck dominates. You can’t dig into these sections (yet?), but it goes a long way in showing the powerful behind the Chrome Web Store. The layout is done flip-board style, with a left-sidebar displaying topics. Here are a couple of apps that I did enjoy taking a peek at or will continue to use ( click images for links to the web apps): The New York Timesīy far one of the most beautiful web apps in the Chrome Web Store, The New York Times wins my vote as best Chrome app. I’m willing to bet that more than 50% of the Google Chrome Web Store will work in any other browser outside of Google Chrome. In essence, half of what’s listed in the store is an extension or bookmarklet for the actually site. It isn’t only apps as you might have been lead to believe ( I was). Just to clear a few things up, the Google Chrome Web Store is a mixture of Google Apps, Extensions, and Themes for Google Chrome. So here are a few Google Chrome apps worth checking out. Everything else seems to be a bookmarklet or extension instead of an actual app. Only a handful of real “apps” currently exist in the store. If you were expecting a new breed of apps from the Chrome Web Store like I was, you can guess again. While plenty of folks have been waiting for this, I haven’t and I’m glad I haven’t. ![]() Today, Google officially announced the Google Chrome Web Store alongside the impending launch of the Chrome OS Notebook ( TNW has the scoop on getting one). ![]()
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