Clint Boulton

Interesting that hours after Yahoo said talks with Microsoft about a deal were dead, Google and Yahoo confirmed details of a search advertising deal to beat the band.In April, the two companies conducted a two-week test in which Google ran ads next Yahoo search results. Both companies proclaimed the test a success and many speculated […]

Google and Yahoo June 12 confirmed a nonexclusive deal to run Google’s search and contextual advertising technology through its AdSense for Search and AdSense for Content advertising programs on the Yahoo search engine.Financial terms of the deal, which has been rumored since the companies began testing it in April to throw a wrench into Microsoft’s […]

OK, one final post on my meeting with Google Enterprise Product Manager Rishi Chandra at Enterprise 2.0 this week.I asked the obvious question: What’s next for Google Apps this year? Usually the answer I get is the stock, we’re going to work hard at building out our portfolio, enriching our services and adding new customers.Chandra […]

Enterprise 2.0 Technologies Worth Watching By Clint Boulton 1. Mindjet MindManager and ConnectMindjet has been flying under the radar, but not for long. Most collaboration providers offer linear, written content via word processing documents or lists. Mindjet’s software includes interactive diagrams, showing ideas that map out a central theme or goal. Mindjet MindManager is the […]

BOSTON — Middle management is one of the key obstacles to the adoption of user-generated content tools such as blogs, wikis and RSS feeds in businesses, argued panelists at the Enterprise 2.0 show June 11. Sean Dennehy, who as an evangelist for the Central Intelligence Agency, struggled to get colleagues in management to accept and […]

Google is running into some interesting challenges as it continues to wend its way through the cloud-computing-will-replace-on-premises-software rhetoric.Google will be the first to say that on-premises software is not going away. To overtly suggest otherwise would be to say that Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and the lion’s share of old-line software makers are going the way […]

BOSTON-Microsoft’s Office Labs team, a testbed for ideas from company employees, is treating attendees of the Enterprise 2.0 conference to a sneak preview of a Facebook-like social network the company is working on to help employees keep tabs on each other. The network is called TownSquare, and while the project will exist at Microsoft internally, […]

Earlier today, I’d written about a potential Google data-snatching catastrophe that popped up when Google Enterprise Product Manager Rishi Chandra said Google Enterprise General Manager Dave Girouard’s laptop was stolen from his car at a ballpark.Chandra’s tale came here in Boston at Enterprise 2.0, where he regaled the audience with the magic of cloud computing […]

IBM parroted moves from the consumer social networking space of MySpace and Facebook by adding “friending” and several new capabilities to version 2.0 of its Lotus Connections software for businesses. Jeff Schick, vice president of social software at IBM, discussed the new platform with eWEEK in time for the Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston this […]

BOSTON-The notion of open collaboration might seem antithetical to the CIA, but the U.S. spy network is turning that notion on its ear with Intellipedia. Yes, this is Wikipedia for the James Bond set, an online collaboration space where agents can post articles about the war in Iraq, as well as top-secret documents. Like Wikipedia, […]

BOSTON-A Google product manager said the next 10 years in enterprise applications will develop in the cloud, a fitting sermon from a serious cloud computing player presenting at the Enterprise 2.0 show here June 10. However, for every benefit of the cloud, there are questions about security, privacy and other niggling issues that crop up. […]

Despite no news on the pact that would pair Google’s paid search terms with Yahoo’s search engine, rural and minority groups continue to beat the drum for the notion that any such deal would be anticompetitive.LISTA (Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association), the ACGA (American Corn Growers Association) and other leading agricultural groups claimed […]