Clint Boulton

Taking the Google Reader Play Tour by Clint Boulton Title Unknown Google Reader Play presents items, including pictures, stories and YouTube videos, one at a time, but in a film-strip fashion. It’s sort of like Google Fast Flip, but for Reader. Users can click the next arrow to move to the next selection, or click […]

Twitter March 11 switched on its long-awaited location-sharing feature and made the service opt-in. Twitter’s geolocation feature tags users’ tweets based on where they are tweeting from. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and his team believe this additional layer of context will make Twitter a richer network. See Stone’s example of why this is useful: “Let’s […]

Google Buzz has gone through a number of changes since its release more than a month ago, but most of these changes have been privacy-related. After the privacy control concerns, the second biggest complaint centers around how noisy Buzz can get. When you’ve got every Tom, Dick and Harry you don’t know following you, seeing […]

Google Apps Marketplace Gets Down to Serious Business by Clint Boulton Google Apps Marketplace Homepage The Marketplace landing page. Before You Start Searching for Apps … Learn more about the Marketplace here. Looking for Apps Similar to the Android Market, the Marketplace displays top-rated, most-reviewed and most-installed applications. Google Apps Market Categories The Marketplace offers […]

Google’s Product Search for Mobile with local inventory, which Google Engineering VP Vic Gundotra used to check whether a Canon EOS camera was in stock at local Best Buy store, is now live for U.S. users of Google Android smartphones, Apple iPhones or Palm WebOS phones. To use this service, go to Google.com in your […]

Google’s addition of biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps March 9 is one more example of the search engine giant’s increased emphasis on connecting users to information, with a side of advertising. The idea is to help cyclists plan bike routes that “avoid big hills” and other terrain unkind to two-wheeled travel, […]

The Federal Trade Commission is looking for official declarations from Google rivals and advertisers about Google’s proposed purchase of mobile ad provider AdMob, which could signal the regulator may challenge the deal. Google offered to buy AdMob, which sells ads for placement on Web pages and applications running on Apple’s iPhone, Google Android phones and […]

Motorola March 10 said it has chosen Microsoft Bing search and maps to run on Google Android-based smartphones in China this year. The partnership will manifest in a pre-loaded Bing bookmark and a new search widget with Bing, all running in the mobile browser of forthcoming Android-based gadgets in China. Microsoft search and maps capabilities […]

Google fulfilled a much-made request March 9 with the introduction of bicycle directions and bike trail data for some 12,000 miles of trails on Google Maps in the United States. Bicycling directions appear as an option in the drop-down menu when users search for directions in Google Maps. In my hometown, we have a popular […]

Facebook is expected to enable location sharing in its users’ News Feeds, a move that could automatically make the social network the dominant platform for location-based Web services. A March 9 report in the New York Times cited sources saying Facebook would announce the news at its F8 developer conference, slated for April 21 and […]

Google Apps Marketplace to Stoke Partner Software Sales by Clint Boulton Introduction Meet the Google Apps Marketplace. User Interface Developers can create cloud applications that integrate with Google Apps through open protocols and sell them to millions of businesses. Customers may purchase and run applications from this Website. The Administrator Control Panel Google Apps Marketplace […]

Microsoft Bing continued to gain market share, growing to 11.5 percent of the U.S. search market in February, up from 11.3 percent in January. Bing’s gains came from Yahoo, which dropped from 17 percent through January to 16.8 percent in February, according to research from comScore released March 9. Google grew slightly in February, notching […]