Google's Chrome Web Browser is getting Desktop Notifications

Google's Chrome web browser is going to get built in "Desktop Notifications" soon. (similar to Growl)  A document on this feature can be found on the Chromium Developer site.  On Macs and Linux computers, the notifications would run through Growl and DBus (respectively). 

At this moment these notifications are off by default, but with some command line fiddling you can get them to work.  It's uncertain how this will be used, Growl has few applications that run it, and if it will not be used for "nefarious purposes".

(info from TechCrunch)