Clint Boulton

Facebook April 21 unveiled a Facebook Platform redesigned to let Website publishers build a bridge between their content and users’ Facebook information. The new Facebook Platform, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives unveiled at the company’s F8 developer’s conference in San Francisco April 21, supports Social Plugins. These plug-ins require only one line of […]

Google has quietly purchased a stealth company founded by former Apple employees called Agnilux, the search engine confirmed for eWEEK April 20. Agnilux allegedly makes a server chip, but no one has been able to confirm this and the Website is bare aside from some @symbols and shadow figures of office workers. The acquisition was […]

HTC Incredible Joins Droid, Droid Eris, Devour in Verizons Android Lineup by Clint Boulton No Title It’s Incredible!The HTC Incredible landing Web page touts the devices features. The Front A serious looking smartphone, the Incredible is the first high-end Android smartphone based from Verizon since its November 2009 launch of the Motorola Droid. The Droid […]

Google Places Vies for Local Search Sharevs. Yelp, Twitter, Foursquare by Clint Boulton Google Places Google Places is Google’s next leg of local search, offering businesses the opportunity to better connect with consumers online. Stats Will Google Places take Google’s local search places? Check out the stats … Log-in Business owners now see this page […]

There was a time a couple years ago when we pundits tracked Google’s lobbying spend by year. No longer, because that spend is growing at a fat clip. Consumer groups and privacy watchdogs suspicious of Google Creep — its growing size and extension on the Web — are looking at Google’s moves in Washington, D.C., […]

Privacy watchdogs from 10 countries wrote a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt complaining about Google’s approach to releasing Web applications such as Google Buzz, which touched off a privacy furor when the company launched it in February. Data protection leaders in Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United […]

Google’s single sign-on system, formerly called Gaia, was the access point for the Chinese cyber attack that exposed the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. This password system controls access to Google Apps for millions of users. A user clicked on a link sent to his instant messaging client and was connected to a “poisoned” […]

Facebook April 19 offered a glimpse at its next designs on the social Web with Community Pages that feature Wikipedia information and a new option to let users connect to Facebook Pages they endorse from their profiles. Soon, parts of users’ Facebook profiles will offer “connections” that link to Facebook Pages, those Web pages the […]

Startups continue to introduce interesting browser-based tools that augment users’ experiences of finding, sharing and organizing information on the Web. Netex is set to join this party April 21 with the beta launch of Springo. Billed as a free Web navigation and discovery tool, Springo is a sort of search middleman that directs users in […]

Google April 20 sought to make its local search offering more transparent for local businesses by renaming its Local Business Center Google Places and offering new tools to help connect consumers with nearby shops. Google’s Place Pages surface more than 50 million places around the world when users search for destinations on Google Maps. Users […]

Facebook, which popularized the notion of shared content for its social network, is expected to unveil a “Like” button publishers can embed on their Websites to let users share content with their Facebook friends. The New York Times reported that Facebook at its F8 developer’s conference April 21 will introduce a Like button that will […]

Google Cloud Print Coming for Google Chrome OS by Clint Boulton Google Chrome OS An alternative to the localized Microsoft Windows desktop operating system, Google’s Chrome OS is a Web-based operating system that boots up computers in a fraction of the time it takes to start most of today’s PCs. And it’s open source! Google […]