Clint Boulton

Google on March 4 added the ability for users to receive e-mail notifications about new and updated waves in Wave users’ inboxes, lavishing another modicum of control for the real-time collaboration platform. Users may access this just by using the dropdown menu by the inbox link, as you can see here: Of course, selecting notifications […]

Google SearchWiki, we hardly used ye. Google March 3 said it is replacing its little-used SearchWiki feature with stars, little star-shaped buttons next to search results that users can click to mark favorite Web pages. SearchWiki, which you can see demoed here in its November 2008 launch, let users add, remove or reorder Web pages, […]

One of the prevailing theories behind why Apple is targeting HTC in a patent infringement suit that largely targets phones running Google’s Android operating system is that, well, HTC made the phones. We can pontificate to our hearts’ content about how the real target here is Android. If Android is life’s blood of the smartphones […]

AT&T will launch the Motorola Backflip March 7, but its first phone running Google’s Android operating system will be without Google as the default search engine. So what search engine will be offered on the Backflip, which lets users turn it into a table-top mode to grant users a hands-free way to watch videos, listen […]

Socialtext 4.0 Supports Groups, Microblogging Channels by Clint Boulton New Groups Socialtext’s new groups drop-down menu on the modules bar lets users select the group they belong to. By clicking on it, you’ll be brought to a customized Group Homepage. Groups can be synchronized with existing groups in your company’s LDAP or corporate directory. Collaborative […]

With the Web 2.0 blogosphere anxiously awaiting Twitter’s forthcoming advertising platform, the folks at 140 Proof are inviting advertisers interested in leveraging the real-time information flow on Twitter to give its platform a shot. 140 Proof March 2 launched a contextual ad platform built expressly for Twitter. In the first run, 140 Proof is integrating […]

Jive Software, one of the stronger stand-alone players in the ultra-competitive market for modern collaboration software, is adding idea management to its arsenal with Jive Ideation March 2. A module that snaps on to the company’s Social Business Software suite of collaboration applications, Jive Ideation helps employees, customers and partners form communities around specific ideas, […]

Could the multitude of reviews comparing the Google Android-based Nexus One smartphone have prompted Apple to sue HTC for infringing 20 patents related to its popular iPhone smartphone? That’s the first thing I thought when Apple announced its suit, which covers patents related to “iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.” Apple CEO Steve Jobs […]

Google has added instant machine translation and new privacy features to the Google Chrome Web browser, both moves that could accelerate adoption of the application that has been steadily gaining market share in the last few months. Launched to beta March 1, the new polyglot feature recognizes when the language of a Web page a […]

When Cloud Sherpas released its SherpaTools platform to beta last month, it became the latest product from a growing line of companies looking to not only resell Google Apps but grease the wheels for companies trying to implement the Web-based collaboration software. Cloud Sherpas resells Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE), which Google offers for $50 […]

Socialcast Ease Microblogging Platform Works with Outlook by Clint Boulton Compose with Ease Socialcast Ease allows users to create and manage messages in the Socialcast network directly in Outlook. The Dashboard User dashboards recommend new colleagues and groups to follow, heightening the social quotient. Let Your Flag Fly Ease lets users flag messages for follow-up, […]

My, how the years change us. Several Websites unearthed this 1986 clip of an April Fool’s Day prank on Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who was then a less-than-studly vice president of Sun Microsystems: The prank, in which Schmidt’s office furniture was removed and replaced by a Volkswagen Beetle, is something out of an ’80s movie […]