Google Chrome
John Gruber is on target when he says it sounds more like an application runtime than a browser. But the key point is that it is an application runtime optimized for the kinds of web applications that already exist. They're not trying to make a "next generation" browser like Ubiquity or push some new kind of embedded applet ("Rublets - now you can make RIAs with Ruby!") Based on this one comic book-style presentation, Chrome is monomaniacally focused on making the existing crop of HTML+Javascript+AJAX based web applications run like lightning. And by extension, expand the viability of that platform into the near-term future. Which makes sense, considering how much Google has invested into that platform. Reading between the lines, it seems like the Google Gears developers said "here's what we could do with Gears, but the existing browsers are too slow/too crude/etc." So someone at Google said "fine, let's make our own browser so that the Gears guys can go nuts."
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