Wow, within just a few minutes after a big after shock hit Haiti, the Twitter home page was showing the Fail Whale, and it still does now (more than one hour later).

A lot of retweets happening at the same time seem to cause a system overload. Once again shows that Twitter is being used as a news source for a lot of people world wide.

[update]
Twitter is back, but doesn't mention the exact cause of the outage:

... A sudden failure coupled with problems in switching to a backup system ...

Google announced that they will launch Google Chrome, a new browser. Among the features are a powerful JavaScript enginge, V8 and (of course) tabbed browsing, but each tab is isolated from others which keeps the browser running smooth if one of the sites loaded happens to crash. According to the blog posting it should above all, be a very smooth and fast browser.

Wonder what this will do to the market share of Firefox, my currently favorite browser...

[edit]

The browser was just put online for download.

Yesterday, Google launched Knol, an expert site similar to Wikipedia. One of the differences is that with Knol, authors are not anonymous. Users can comment on articles, rate and even review them.

Wired has an in-depth article and has spoken to several people involved in the project.