Remember Google Buzz, the attempt prior to Google+ for the company to get social? It was shut down in October, 2011, but never actually died. Believe it or not, everything that you had (if you had anything) on the old platform is still available. That finally ends in July after nearly 2 years of lingering on its death bed. Today, Google sent old Buzz users this email: Buzz user, In October 2011 we announced Google Buzz was shutting down. On or after July 17th, 2013, Google will take the last step in the shutdown and will save a copy of your Buzz posts to your Google Drive, a service for storing files online….

May Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, and MyBlogLog rest in peace. You likely won’t be missed, but your collective unrealized potentials will go down in Internet history as examples of how to take greatness and run it into the grave. A leaked screenshot of an all-hands meeting for the Yahoo product team has prompted (confirmed) speculations that many of Yahoo’s products are either being merged or discontinued altogether. This came after a round of layoffs yesterday. Why did these services have to die? In many cases, they were promising from their inception or when they were purchased by Yahoo, and yet here…

Assuming you visit the Apple front page with any degree of regularity, you may have noticed that today, it’s been replaced with the above. Apparently, tomorrow we’re going to get an ‘exciting announcement’ from iTunes. Frankly, Steve, I dunno about that: seems your last exciting iTunes announcement was Ping, and last I checked in, it was still a pile of crap. So forgive me if I remain a little apprehensive of your promise that I’m truly never going to forget the day you released… well, whatever it is. I suppose we can speculate on that, can’t we? From where I’m sitting, this can be one of three things:…