Google launch their Chrome web browser, and pretty good it looks too. However the stand out feature of this and every other Google product launch is just how bad their marketing is. Knol should be setting the world on fire. Lively is mostly misunderstood by the few that know about it. Then there are Orkut, Picasa, Google Health and so many more that are grievously underachieving. Because Google grew organically off product excellence and word of mouth they have never learned to market. It is about time they did if they want their rapidly growing catalogue of products to succeed.

Disney to double its game development spend to$350 million per annum and buy another developer. No surprises here then. Interactive entertainment will be bigger than film and TV combined. These big media companies have to invest in games to survive. The commercial shape of the industry is changing very rapidly, let’s hope it keeps a few of its little idiosyncrasies on the way to being totally corporate.

Michael Pachter doubles his software sales growth predictions for the year. So he got it wrong again and is patching things up.