Do you remember Google Buzz? Did you use it. No of course you didn’t. Google has quietly announced it is to shut down its already forgotten Buzz project, which it launched back in February 2010, and focus its attention on Google+.

Google Buzz has gone the way of Google Wave which was axed last year due to “lack of adoption”. The same is true of Buzz, which was a badly executed half idea that never went anywhere. Is Google+ going to make it?

Confusingly there was also a Yahoo! Buzz that was also shut down earlier this year about the same time  Google Video was closed. Read More »

Cast your mind back. Do you remember Yahoo! Buzz? No not Google Buzz, which is also fading from memory, but the other one.  Did you use it? Well if you didn’t you missed your chance. Yahoo! is closing the service down.

Yahoo! Buzz is being consigned to the scrapheap on the same day that Google is saying goodbye to Google Video. Read More »

That took it long enough. Google co-founder Larry Page has named the web giant’s first head of social media as part of a management shuffle of senior executives.

Page has named Vic Gundotra, vice-president of engineering, as Google’s  senior vice-president of social and made social a priority across the company. Read More »

The web is awash this morning with talk that Twitter could be sold. It is said to be in talks with both Facebook and Google. Not just those two, but others as well. Who else? Maybe Microsoft.

The talks have given loss making Twitter an estimated valuation of $8bn to $10bn. That is a huge price tag for a loss making business, but the prize could be huge too. The challenge is huge but the pitfalls are there too. Read More »

It is being reported that Go0gle’s planned social networking initiative Google Me is to be delayed until the Spring of next year.

It had been expected that Google Me would have been unveiled before the end of the year and in September Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that its much talked of social networking plans would be unveiled in the autumn. Read More »

Google has taken the slightly unusual step of writing to Gmail users via email, to say they’ve reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz in which they were sued by a group of users concerned about privacy.

The full details of the settlement are outlined on the website BuzzClassAction, which explains that it is alleged that Google ‘automatically enrolled Gmail users in Buzz, and that Buzz publicly exposed data, including users’ most frequent Gmail contacts, without enough user consent.’ Read More »

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the folks over at Google TV have started courting the Big 4 (ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS) in a bid to a make legitimate run at the potential gold rush that is TV over the web. This should be interesting. Normally, the very thought of Google going into a new area of business usually means money in the bank, but I’m a bit more sceptical of Google TV. Read More »

Facebook will today announce the addition of a series of new features on its website, which are thought to include a Foursquare-style ‘places’ function that can be integrated into third-part applications. This is going to be big.

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Drowning not waving

Google Wave we hardly knew you, much less used you or worked out what we were supposed to do with you. No Surprise then that Google announced last night that it was ending development of Google Wave due to, ahem, lack of “adoption”. Read More »

The Google social networking story has moved on with the Wall Street Journal reporting that discussions are being held with games developers to make their games available on the service. Read More »