Clint Boulton

After suggesting that Google would make money on Google Health by placing ads, and after reading my peers’ coverage that Google really, really just wants to help the good of mankind, I’ve had a change of view. It’s not what you think—at least not a 100 percent turnaround. I still think Google will make money […]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo is considering selling its search advertising business to Microsoft.Microsoft Watch’s Joe Wilcox couldn’t have been more on point when he said this proposal indicates that Microsoft executives perhaps think Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and his crew, who successfully staved off Microsoft’s first bid, are stupid and desperate.Search […]

Brightidea on May 20 introduced the latest version of its enterprise social network, a software platform that lets businesses create custom portals that connect customers, employees or partners. The San Francisco startup, maker of the Brightidea.com platform, is part of a bumper crop of young vendors looking to sell social tools that enable businesses to […]

Vivisimo steered itself into the next generation of enterprise search in October 2007 with its Velocity 6.0 platform, which included social tagging, bookmarking and networking tools to improve the user experience on traditionally one-dimensional Web sites.Since then, the businesses Vivisimo sells to have spoken and have told the software maker that they want their users […]

Wetpaint.com, a leading provider of white-label social networks for media companies and others looking to make their sites more personal, has turned its social publishing platform on its ear by letting users to embed it in their Web sites. Launched May 19, the product comes as the company closed a $25 million funding round from […]

Shortly after Facebook banned Google’s Friend Connect, the service’s engineers took the time to detail how Friend Connect works. Facebook claimed it banned the service because it allowed developers to access users’ data. So, Google went to great lengths in a blog post to explain that the service does not threaten user privacy, chiefly because […]

As we opined earlier, Microsoft has circled back to Yahoo for round two of the Let’s Make a Deal for Search and Internet Ad sweepstakes. But in a saga fraught with twists and turns, it’s not what we expected. Some of us (myself included) at eWEEK discussed in this podcast the possibility that Microsoft would […]

Google has formally launched its Google Health effort to allow patients access their personal health records no matter where they are, from any computing device, through a secure portal hosted by Google.In this beta, users who sign up for the program must agree to grant “all or nothing” access to Google Health partner companies, including […]

Innovation continues to happen at a crisp pace since Google launched its App Engine in April. Yesterday, a programmer for the company, which has been dinged for accepting applications only coded in Python, introduced Google App Engine Launcher for Mac OS X. The app, unleashed during MacWorld, aims to manage a list of those unwieldy […]

Okay, so I can’t help but harp on Facebook’s affront of Google over the Friend Connect service. Never mind the he-said, she-said BS, but one of the parts I didn’t cover adequately in my first go-round for eWEEK is how Facebook tried to come off as a company that is earnest about data portability. To […]

You have been measured. You have been weighed. And you have been found wanting. That’s more or less what Facebook said in banning Google’s Friend Connect social widget service, which launched to developers as a preview May 12, just days after Facebook announced a more amorphous data portability move May 9. Friend Connect aims to […]

Yahoo shot back at Carl Icahn, telling the billionaire investor he doesn’t understand the facts about Microsoft’s last $33-per-share offer for the Internet company and the way Yahoo considered it. Yahoo Board Chairman Roy Bostock responded to a letter from Icahn May 15, the same day the investor threatened to launch a proxy fight for […]