Clint Boulton

Ever wonder who is looking at your YouTube videos? Now you can. Well, not exactly who is looking at them, but an idea of where your videos are most popular. Google’s video-sharing site yesterday launched YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables users, partners and advertisers that have a YouTube account to peep statistics about […]

The latest paid click report from comScore has financial analysts in a tizzy and eying the leading search and online advertising player with suspicion and not a light undercurrent of dread. Google’s paid click rate grew 3.1 percent year-to-year in February, according to the report, cited by Reuters. This follows comScore’s January report, which found […]

If Cemaphore Systems can successfully market a new product that lets users access their Outlook e-mail from Google’s servers, the company could significantly boost its value to suitors interested in furthering their cloud computing ambitions. MailShadow for Google, or MailShadowG, officially launched in beta on March 26. The product is targeted for businesses that want […]

Remember last year when Sprint and Clearwire embarked on a venture that would have defined the WiMax market for decades? That star burned out quickly, with Sprint shedding CEO Gary Forsee and putting the kibosh on the deal. Cable giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable want to fund a new company operated by Sprint Nextel […]

Bloggers were torn about whether Google’s search-within-search box was harming publishers and retailers, as was suggested in this March 24 New York Times piece. A search expert believes the tool, a secondary search box that lets consumers conduct searches within specific sites without navigating to those sites, will help Google “hijack” revenue from Web site […]

The beauty of cloud-based computing is that it can enable companies to break down the barriers between disparate and even competing applications. That’s why Cemaphore Systems is leveraging the popular SAAS (software as a service) model to synchronize users’ e-mail, calendars and contacts between Microsoft Outlook and Exchange and Gmail. Launched March 26, MailShadow for […]

So, here is what we know from today’s OpenSocial news: Yahoo has joined OpenSocial and forged the OpenSocial Foundation with Google and MySpace. Facebook is not joining, and Microsoft is on the fence, but I’ll circle back to that. Following are some questions left unanswered in the wake of today’s conference call: How exactly will […]

Yahoo joined Google and MySpace in launching the OpenSocial Foundation, marking Yahoo’s support for the open set of APIs created to fuel interoperability between social applications. Launched March 25, the OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent, nonprofit group with an intellectual property and governance framework. Related assets along those lines will be assigned to the […]

Catalyst Web Services, a startup that provides software-as-a-service productivity and collaboration tools for small and midsize businesses, has tailored a version of its CatalystOffice suite to work with Apple’s MacBook through Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser. Catalyst, which launched the Windows-based version of CatalystOffice at Demo in January, is targeting the lower end of the market […]

Facebook has declined to join the OpenSocial Foundation, a blow to an effort forged by Google, Yahoo and MySpace to create applications that work across disparate social networking Web sites. “As the largest contributor to the memecached system, Facebook has long been a leader and supporter of open source initiatives, but will not join the […]