Clint Boulton

Google’s Android team extended an olive branch last week when it rolled out a new software development kit and a development road map to application programmers of the much ballyhooed mobile operating system.Android advocates also omitted two key APIs from the mix for security reasons, but failed to detail what those were Aug. 18.Well, enquiring […]

Google Labs is the proud father of a new graduate search tool.Called Google Suggest, the software provides users suggestions for search queries from the home page as they type queries in.The tool uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers. Think of it as the “Did you […]

Short-form video site Metacafe, one of a handful of sites looking to offer users a video experience that is not a carbon copy of Google’s YouTube video-sharing site, has opened its metadata for community contributions and editing. This means not only can Metacafe’s 30 million monthly viewers upload videos to the site, but they can […]

Mozilla Labs has launched a prototype of a software service that lets nontechnical Web users create mashups, those marriages of applications such as Google Maps and other information to create more useful apps.As the name implies, Ubiquity is intended to bring together any Web content in what is largely a disconnected Web.Our current iteration of […]

If you didn’t believe Google and Yahoo management when they cited mobile search and advertising as one of the fertile, green fields for making money from mobile Web use, you might want to rethink that position.JumpTap, which has built a unique, two-headed business model by offering white-label mobile search and a mobile advertising network, has […]

UPDATE: I added a response from Google. When Google bought Jaiku last October it spawned a great deal of talk about whether Google would be looking to throw its weight behind a micro-blogging service to lure people tired of Twitter’s downtime.Well, that was a long, long time ago, making some of feel that we were […]

Is Google a one-trick pony?That’s a claim more than one Microsoft executive has made to dismiss the search giant, whose alleged one trick, its paid keyword business, has helped the company earn some $17.6 billion last year in online advertising.At about 70 percent in the United States, Google’s share of the search market and the […]

TimeTrade Systems, which makes software that helps harried professionals schedule appointments, released a personal SAAS scheduling application for sales and service workers Aug. 25. TimeDriver, available as a free beta on both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac desktop computers, lets an individual worker who wants to book appointments with a prospective client set up invitations […]

The Wall Street Journal has shagged a nifty scoop about Google and Verizon apparently burying their spiteful hatchets to work together on mobile search.In the deal, Google would become the default search engine on phones sold by Verizon, the No. 2 U.S. wireless provider. This sounds pretty much like the deal Google struck with phone […]

Google’s OpenSocial API has been available for several months, but the company hasn’t provided much of a sandbox in which developers can test the social software.That changed Aug. 21 when Google launched Partuza (Spanish slang for “party”), a sample social networking site where programmers can write and test their OpenSocial widgets on their own computers. […]

What Wed Like to See from Google Before 2009 by Clint Boulton What We’d Like to Seefrom Google Before 2009By Clint Boulton What Wed Like to See from Google Before 2009 – First Thing What We’d Like to Seefrom Google Before 20091. AndroidHave rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated? More than a month after […]

UPDATED: This version adds and corrects some facts from my original August 21 piece. My source claims Google admitted to condoning behavioral targeting on its content network. However, he says Google never told him they were using deep packet inspection to enhance behavioral targeting efforts. The House Energy and Commerce Committee August 1 sent Google […]