Google Chrome already represents more than 10% of gdgt’s traffic!

Damn, if our numbers are anything to go by (and I’m not saying they are), the adoption rate of Google’s Chrome among the geek-set has been absolutely astonishing. Tomorrow will mark gdgt’s first week (in super soft launch mode, anyway), and about a week and a half for Chrome — and Google already represents more than ten percent of the thousands of views we’ve gotten.

Kind of reminds me back in 2004 when Calacanis wrote a totally breathless post about Firefox and Engadget, wondering if its 20% slice would become the norm in a couple of years (it clearly has). If gdgt’s first audiences are anything like the same super-early vanguard that Engadget’s audience was in 2004, it stands to reason that Google’s going to absolutely dominate the browser market in the near future. Of course, I’m also really curious to see some larger data sets on this!

Update: At the request of reader Leo, I’ve segmented browser stats by just Windows. They’re not all that different! (In fact, proportionally, Chrome performs a little better.) Here’s the top five Windows browsers for gdgt in week one:

1. Firefox / Windows: 57.91%
2. Internet Explorer / Windows: 21.21%
3. Chrome / Windows: 17.79%
4. Opera / Windows: 1.83%
5. Safari / Windows: 0.83%

gdgt weekly already hits number one in iTunes!

Wow, we’re barely 24 hours out of the gate with our new show at gdgt, and we’re already the number one tech podcast on iTunes — as well as the number five podcast, period (trailing my fave show ever, This American Life). Of course, this can change day to day, but I’m still awestruck at the love and support for the show.

Real quick, I’d like to thank our pals at BitGravity for their help making us sing right out of the gate; my boy Scott over at iTunes for making sure the page got online alright; and, of course, everyone who listened in and subscribed! Man, I can only hope the rest of gdgt’s launch goes this swimmingly.

A little bit on the new site, gdgt

So we’re calling the new site gdgt (spoken as four letters, like g-d-g-t, but you can say “gadget” if you like), and we’ve still got our work cut out for us before we have a proper launch. But there was one thing Peter and I knew we had to take care of early on, something a lot of people made abundantly clear they felt was missing: we had to get our show back on the air.

It’s been a year since we hung up our mics at Engadget, but we’re finally back with our new gadget podcast, gdgt weekly! The first episode’s already up, so head over to gdgt to grab it / subscribe. Oh, there’s another bit, too.

We’re also announcing our first two advisors to gdgt, two good friends of mine: Josh Topolsky, editor of Engadget, and Brian Lam, editorial director of Gizmodo. Yeah, I know, just blew your mind: people from Engadget and Gizmodo collaborating on something. Together. Of course, the reality isn’t all that weird when you think about things.

It may not have shone through in the various articles trumping up the Engadget / Gizmodo rivalry, but believe it or not, Brian Lam and I are actually pals outside of work — have been for years. In fact, a side story neither of us ever told publicly was that I actually tried to hire Brian when he was on his way out of Wired, just before Gawker snagged him for Giz. I pitched hard, but in the end, as he put it recently, “It wouldn’t have been as much of a challenge.” Of course, he was totally right — he accepted the greater challenge and put Gizmodo back on the map.

Josh, of course, is one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever met — someone with a natural eye for content and gadget world, who I’m totally proud to have take over as Engadget’s editor in chief. So maybe it’s time to look at this space a little more holistically; or, as Brian said, get some Voltron action going on.