Clint Boulton

Update: Infovell, whose search engine for scouring the deep Web turned heads at Demo in September, Nov. 11 changed its name to the more Web 2.0-friendly moniker of DeepDyve to reflect its expansion into the consumer search market.The search startup this quarter is also expanding beyond searching for long lost content in life sciences, patents […]

Taking a Look at Google Gmail Voice, Video Chat How Do You Know When Youre Getting a Call? Click a button to answer. Whats on the Menu? Voice and video chat from Gmail, of course, under the group chat option in Gmail. Gmail Video Chat Lands In high resolution, this is the landing page for […]

Mindjet Introduces Mind-Mapping Player Mindjet Player The Mindjet Player lets users take their work and send it via Adobe Flash or PDF files. When the files reach their destination, the links and data remain interactive. MindManager 8 Here’s peek at the MindManager 8 visual mapping application. MindManagers Browser Notice how the MindManager map splits in […]

Google Nov. 11 continued boosting the value of its Web e-mail application by launching voice and video chat for Gmail.The feature, which could put to rest speculation that Google will buy Skype-why buy in this suspect economy when you can build?-lets users converse with and see their contacts on their desktop computers in real time. […]

DeepDyve into the Deep Web Is This DeepDyve or Facebook? DeepDyve’s new UI follows in the footsteps of so many companies looking to create a more Web 2.0-friendly experience. Searching for Skin Cancer … Advice Note that there’s a lot of room in the search box. DeepDyve lets users enter phrases of up to 25,000 […]

Update: Funny how things evolve in high-tech, with some deals lasting what seems like ages and others, announced with so much enthusiasm, dying out. I want to talk about an example of the latter. Slightly more than three years ago, in October 2005, Google and Sun Microsystems embarked on an interesting partnership. Sun agreed to […]

Like most e-mail programs, Google’s Gmail application began as a simple tool for composing, sending and receiving e-mail messages over the Internet.Those of you who haven’t dusted off your Gmail accounts in a while, please do so now. You may well not recognize it from when it was launched in 2004 by invitation only. Google […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Every now and then a batch of stories cooks up that Google Apps, primarily its Docs suite of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications, is intended primarily to distract Microsoft from competing with Google on the Internet. The theory goes that by creating a SAAS alternative to Microsoft Office, a core Microsoft […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel CEO Paul Otellini is an iPhone user, but if his observations about mobile phone use at the Web 2.0 Summit here today come to fruition, the future looks really bright for Google’s Android mobile operating system. “Disclaimer:“ Otellini sits on Google’s board. No word yet on how much Google paid him […]

Google’s Matt Cutts Aims to Fight Virtual Blight Matt Cutts Is Thrilled to Be Here Google’s Web spam cop looks tickled to be at the Web 2.0 Summit. Virtual Blight … Ewwwww What does a rotten, stunted Web site smell like? Virtual Blighting with Links Spammers look to steal links to infect. Link Blight Example […]

What better event to show a new mashup than Web 2.0 Summit? Except that parties involved aren’t just-born-yesterday startups like you might expect at a show where five minutes ago seems like five hours ago. Cisco Systems used IBM’s Mashup Center to build a mashup that lets users convert feeds from a physical video surveillance […]

SAN FRANCISCO-In a perfect world, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would have been on the cloud computing panel moderated by Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Summit here Nov. 6. They would have been able to defend themselves from the stinging digs from Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Google Enterprise President […]