Clint Boulton

A handful of search engines are making their debut or introducing new products here, in Palm Desert, Calif., at Demo 08 this week: Circos.com, Delver (formerly Semingo), HealthPricer, Silobreaker, Jodange and Eyealike, all of whom have varying degrees of attractiveness to Google. I believe some have more appeal than others.

10 Technologies that Stood Out at Demo Social search. Unified Communications. Collaboration. Social networking. Demo 2008 is a hotbed for many new technologies. With 77 presenters in two days, the companies and their products can blur together. Here are 10 products that stood out- 10 Technologies that Stood Out at Demo – Iterasi Toolbar Iterasi […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Emissaries from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Yahoo and other large vendors are checking out new technologies at Demo 08 here. So what are Google and Microsoft, competitors in search and collaboration software, interested in? Michael Pearson, principal of corporate development at Google, declined to comment Jan. 30 due to the sensitive […]

Mathematical algorithms are the secret sauce behind top-line search engines, so some vendors who realize it’s almost impossible to take market share from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft head-to-head are using human behavior to augment search results. One start-up in this space is Lijit Networks, which offers a free software tool called a Search Widget that […]

Yahoo’s pledge to cut 1,000 jobs is the latest move for a company beset by financial problems to improve its position as it seeks to combat Google and Microsoft in the market for online advertising. As expected, the company announced the cuts during its fourth-quarter conference call Jan. 29. News of the pink slips, which […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Communications technologies constituted the bulk of the relentless barrage of presentations — 19 companies at six minutes a pop — at the launch of Demo 08 here on Jan. 29. If there is a thematic current running under the show, it’s that vendors are looking to leverage the Internet fabric as […]

Businesses will leverage blogs, wikis, mashups and social networking tools to help make their employees’ collaboration efforts more efficient and productive in 2008, according to a Forrester Research report released Jan. 28. Though most IT departments have resisted Web 2.0 technologies because they believed them to be frivolous consumer tools, Forrester analysts expect half of […]

Google’s latest Doodle is an homage to the Lego, the multi-colored plastic building block that snaps together, allowing children to test their construction mettle by building fire trucks, police cars and even little people during recess and play times all over the world. Many people may have heard that Google has Legos scattered all over […]

Google next month will add technology to its AdSense program that detects domain kiting, a practice many experts in the domain registration space view as questionable as it is profitable. Domain kiting is a practice some domain registrants use to game the five-day grace period at the beginning of the registration of an ICANN-regulated domain. […]

If Christos Cotsakos has his way, the future of social networking will flow through West Palm Beach, Fla. That is where Cotsakos, a serial entrepreneur who spent six years as the CEO of E*Trade, is basing Moli, a social networking site where professionals can manage their social, business and family profiles in one account. Moli, […]