Clint Boulton

It must be all of the tough competition from Zoho, Microsoft’s increasing cloud offerings and other collaboration startups. Google continues to refine and crank out new features for Google Docs, which it admitted earlier in 2009 had been getting dusty. Docs no longer has time to get dusty without something new happening. This week, the […]

There have been Twitter conferences and meet-ups to chat about the direction of the microblog service, but Twitter revealed that it will be hosting a developer conference in 2010. Twitter Platform Director Ryan Sarver, the driving force behind Twitter’s geolocation efforts, said Twitter will hold the Chirp developer conference in San Francisco sometime next year. […]

Google garnered 71.8 percent of U.S. searches in November, growing more than a full percentage point from its 70.6 percent share from October 2009, according to the latest figures from HitWise. The Web analytics firm found that Yahoo slipped 5 percent from October, dropping from 16.1 percent to 15.4 percent, while Bing dipped 2 percent, […]

15 Google Chrome Extensions You Might Enjoy 15 Google Chrome Extensions You Might EnjoyBy Clint Boulton Google Translate From the Google Translate team, this extension translates whole Web pages into any of 51 languages of your choice. This extension adds a button to your browser tool bar. Click the translate icon whenever you want to […]

Twitter is quickly becoming a staple of leading Web search engines. Just a few days after Google began indexing Twitter tweets and other content in real time, Yahoo said it is now indexing tweets for its own core search engine. Beginning Dec. 10, users searching for hot topics on Yahoo will see recent tweets on […]

NutshellMail Aggregates Facebook Updates, Twitter Tweets by Clint Boulton NutshellMail Digest The NutshellMail digest appears in your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL inbox like any other e-mail. Open It Click on the NutshellMail e-mail and you’ll see this digest. Note how it lists how many Facebook updates, Twitter tweets and Gmail messages there are. E-Mail […]

Google Dec. 8 teamed with The New York Times and the Washington Post on Living Stories, an experimental news platform that streamlines news content on one page to keep users from clicking on story links that send them veering off to different destinations. The move is the latest in a series of overtures Google is […]

Earlier today, I wrote about Google’s Living Stories, the experimental new news platform the search engine created with the help of the New York Times and the Washington Post. Living Stories cried out for visuals and video demos, though, so I offer both here. Landing page: It’s basically publishers’ content streamlined on one page. When […]

Google Dec. 9 began allowing its Google Apps Premier and Education Edition to use Google Groups, the company’s consumer application for creating discussion forums and mailing lists. Employees of companies using those Google Apps editions can create groups for their departments or team members without the help of an IT administrator. Once a group is […]

Google Goggles Breathes New Life into Android Phone Pics by Clint Boulton Google Goggles Goggles is Google’s first foray into computer vision technology, allowing users to essentially make a search query by snapping a picture with their handset instead of typing or speaking searches. Locations and Monuments See a landmark you like, take a picture […]

A modder has exploited the Motorola Droid and gained root access to let developers customize the smartphone with multitouch features, such as the pinch-to-zoom capability missing on the Android 2.0 device, themes and other perks. Root access means users gain full rights to control the phone, taking the power away from the phone maker-Motorola-and its […]

The laundry list of messaging management applications got longer Dec. 8 with the beta launch of NutshellMail, a software as a service tool that aggregates users’ notifications from Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. When users sign up for the service, they check boxes in the NutshellMail dashboard to tell the service to accept notifications […]