Clint Boulton

Microsoft’s Bing continues to tally more users, grabbing 9.3 percent of the U.S. search engine market share in August at the expense of Google and AOL, according to the latest numbers from comScore. Google’s search share was down 0.1 percent to 64.6 percent for August, while AOL’s share was 3 percent compared to 3.1 percent […]

Zoho’s first new application of 2009 is Zoho Discussions, a software-as-a-service online community application that lets users create forums for colleagues and customers in which to bandy about ideas and nourish them with conversation threads. With Zoho Discussions, businesses can create internal discussion exchanges for colleagues and external forums to host conversations with customers, Zoho […]

IBM released Lotus Connections 2.5 Sept. 22, bringing the promised microblogging capability into the application’s profiles tool, file sharing and a customizable widgets for the communities pages. Lotus Connections is IBM’s foray into social software for the enterprise and features profile, blog, activity, social bookmarking and community tools that help business workers connect with colleagues. […]

10 Collaboration Platforms to Consider for Your Business 1) Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provides Web-based collaboration, process management, enterprise search and document management. User self-serve for team site deployment has been a major facilitator for the growth of SharePoint for team sites. While the current MOSS supports wikis and blogs, it is […]

For Google to have the chance to shove rival e-mail clients out of the way on mobile devices, push has to come to Gmail. That’s what happened Sept. 22 as Google released push mail support for Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile-based smartphones in its Google Sync product. E-mail suffers some degree of latency […]

This past Saturday, I participated on This Week in Google, a Netcast hosted by TWiT.tv founder Leo Laporte and hosts/bloggers Jeff Jarvis and Gina Trapani. What a blast! We covered a few Google-related topics, including Google Fast Flip, Intuit’s bid for Mint and Google’s reCAPTCHA purchase. But most of the talk time was devoted the […]

Earlier this month, the blogosphere was atwitter with tweets about the Google doodle showing a UFO taking the second “o” in Google. Google ufo 1.jpg What was this latest unsolved mystery, which I had a little fun with at the expense of X-Files nuts and “believers”? Sci-fi and gaming geeks followed Google’s breadcrumbs on Twitter […]

MySpace Now Syncs With Twitter No Title MySpace Sync No Title How to Synchronize MySpace to TwitterSynchronizing from MySpace to Twitter in 3 easy steps. No Title What The Home Page Look Like With SyncNote tweets from Twitter on MySpace home page. No Title User Profile With SyncTweets are clearly posted in the MySpace user […]

MySpace Sept. 21 unveiled MySpace Sync, an opt-in tool that lets users post their status updates to popular microblog service Twitter and vice versa. In beta and rolling out to users over the coming weeks, MySpace Sync will allow any U.S. user to make any update created on MySpace appear on their Twitter pages. Conversely, […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser is generating heady excitement these days, particularly after the search and Web services giant Sept. 15 put Chrome 3.0 into stable release. Net Applications said Chrome cultivated 2.84 percent worldwide market share through August, hardly burning up the browser market versus Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. But that’s nearly 3 […]

Two things happened this week with Twitter that underscore what a fascinating phenomenon is as a simple, 140-character-per-message Web service. First, TechCrunch reported Sept. 16 that Twitter is close to taking in $50 million, with private venture round valuations of $1 billion. Then Newsweek columnist Steve Lyons proclaimed Sept. 17 that Twitter, for all the […]

The Department of Justice Sept. 18 said the Google Book Search settlement would violate class action, copyright and antitrust law and said it should not be approved without changes. New York District Judge Denny Chin gave the DOJ a Sept. 18 deadline to voice its opinion on Google Book Search, a deal that would let […]