Clint Boulton

SAN DIEGO-Open-source collaboration platform maker MindTouch has unveiled Wik.is, a free version of its Deki Wiki hosted online for enterprise workgroups that could put a crimp in Google’s plans for its free Sites application. The wiki specialist, based here, is also now supporting Microsoft’s Silverlight, Microsoft ADO.NET Data Services and Windows Live services to improve […]

Forrester Research’s Charlene Li, who has become the poster analyst for social networking technologies, offered some interesting prognostications on where the space is heading at the Graphing Social Patterns in San Diego this morning. Li believes social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, and those leveraging Google’s OpenSocial framework, will basically cross-breed with e-commerce giants […]

SAN DIEGO-If the people who are building applications on the back of the Facebook platform can’t tell us when we will see some legitimate enterprise-oriented applications built on the site, who can? That’s one of the messages people learned at the Graphing Social Patterns West 2008 show in San Diego on March 3. Following a […]

Prospero’s social media software, which lets companies put blogs, social profiles, message boards, real-time chat, live event chat, and ratings and reviews on their sites, will be rolled into the Mzinga platform to help customers of the Burlington, Mass., company communicate more efficiently. Catering to marketing, human resources and customer service professionals, Mzinga makes a […]

Just days after comScore unwittingly put the fear of a recession into financial analysts and search engine marketers, the research firm’s founder took pains to explain that it is likely certain “quality initiatives” and not a softening economy that is responsible for a decline in Google’s paid clicks for January. Phew. I’m glad we can […]

One of the things that’s great about the Internet is that people have become so spoiled by the click syndrome. Hyperlinks and Google take people everywhere they want to go, helping them find blogs, podcasts, photos and video. They don’t have to know anything beyond a search query to find the information they’re looking for. […]

The introduction of Google’s PHR (personal health record) effort by Google CEO Eric Schmidt Feb. 28 has some observers saying it could be a complement to Microsoft’s own HealthVault initiative. Google Health and HealthVault are vying to help people manage their PHRs from a single portal. The assumption is that, as they do in everything […]

Google Sites Emerges from the Remains of JotSpot Google Sites Emerges from the Remains of JotSpot – Welcome to Google Sites Just like everything else in Google Apps, Google Sites has been painstakingly crafted to be used by people with little or no technical background. Fill in the brief site background form, bang the Create […]

Google provided the first official peek at Google Health, an effort to let patients collect, store and manage their own medical records online, accessing them through Google APIs. Google CEO Eric Schmidt introduced the service in a keynote to close the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 28. Marissa Mayer, […]

By most analyst accounts, Google Sites is quite the product for building Web sites. Nucleus Research analyst Rebecca Wettemann said she built a Web site in a half hour using the new publishing tool. Google Sites is the JotSpot wiki application overhauled and Googleized for our Web-site building pleasure. Google Sites Product Manager Scott Johnston, […]