Clint Boulton

Facebook is going after social sharing site Digg, launching a live counter for its content Share button to display how many times a piece of content has been shared on the Web. Launched three years ago, the Share button is one of the site’s older Facebook Connect features. Website publishers install it to let users […]

Google Maps has been on an absolute bender of new features in 2009, and the tweaks keep coming. Crowdsourcing of Maps, Google Earth buildings and Street View have been the latest Maps binge, but late last week the Maps team rolled out dozens of aesthetic refinements to the look and feel of the maps, proclaiming […]

Even as bloggers are championing Verizon’s Motorola Droid as the first bonafide challenger for Apple’s iPhone, a new report shows the iPhone has boosted the mobile Web to unprecedented heights. A new report from Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker shows that the iPhone and iPod Touch have fueled the mobile Web to outstrip the […]

Facebook Oct. 23 delivered the previously reported home page changes, offering users a highlight reel view of the most interesting activity that’s happened in the last day and a real-time view that shows users what is happening now. Facebook began offering the real-time feed in the home page in March. Now it has moved the […]

Microsoft, Google, Startups Jostle for Attention at Web 2.0 Summit No Title Web 2.0 SummitCalm before the storm. No Title Now, a Word From Your Co-hostsTim O’Reilly and John Battelle take the stage Oct. 20 to kick off the sixth Web 2.0 Summit. No Title Comcast CEO Brian RobertsRoberts tells the crowd “Twitter has changed […]

Microsoft Bing served 25 million more queries in September than it did in August, growing market share from 8.7 percent to 8.8 percent, according to data released by Compete Oct. 22. The Web analytics firm said Bing’s bid to help users find what they are looking for more quickly is paying off. Bing users averaged […]

Taking the Official Google Chrome Tour by Clint Boulton Chrome Tour Intro This guide walks you through the main features of Google Chrome. Clicking on a region gets you an explanation for each feature. Browse the Web Using Tabs When you visit a site, it opens as a tab in Google Chrome. Opening New Tabs […]

Google has launched some new features that should please die-hard users of Google Reader, the company’s feed reader. First, the Explore section has a new section dubbed “Popular items” that uses algorithms to find rising images, videos and pages from the entire Internet and orders them by what it divines users will most like: Also, […]

Microsoft Bing Takes Center Stage at Web 2.0 with Twitter Integration Bings Weitz Introduces Himself Stefan Weitz shows off his Bing T-shirt by way of introduction to the crowd. How Search Is Ripe for Innovation People are searching more and producing more sophisticated searches. Search Challenges Weitz explains that 25 percent of searchers have to […]

Google enhanced its Google Search Appliance enterprise search box with some new features Oct. 20, including an analysis tool that looks at employee behavior to improve results. No need for the creepy meter to go to 10. Created to help support the GSA(n) architecture the company launched with Google Search Appliance 6.0 in June, the […]

Hope you’ve had time to get over the reflexive, knee-jerk news that Google would, like Microsoft Bing, start indexing Twitter tweets on its search results page. More interesting to me in the near term — probably because it’s closer to launching — is the news of Google Social Search, the search engine’s play to integrate […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Google did not try to buy Twitter, casting off reports to that affect in a surprise visit onstage here at the Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 22. Web 2.0 Summit Co-Host John Battelle asked Brin if Google tried to acquire Twitter, the microblogging with whom Google struck a […]