It’s never an easy decision to kill off a brand, particularly a geeky brand that was all the rage just a year ago. So, not surprisingly, Google’s announcement yesterday to pull the plug on Google Wave, a real-time communication/collaboration app, is not going over so well this morning with die-hards who’ve taken to Twitter, Facebook and blogs to voice their displeasure with Google. In real-time.

The London 2012 Olympic website is expecting an astonishing 10 billion page visits by the end of the games, making it one of the most visited web sites ever in the world of sport. But there’s one fickle group that still must be won over: videogame-obsessed teens.

Long abandoned marketing campaigns and defunct products are still visible across much of Facebook, turning the social network into an eerie graveyard of yesterday’s brilliant marketing ideas gone stale. We look here at the most visible ones, and offer a suggestion or two on how to clean them up.

Google and Microsoft are making moves to reorganize the way we use email. It comes at a stage when we’re using social networks more and more in favor of the old email inbox. Why then all the fuss and investment? And, what does it mean for us?

Recent numbers suggest that Facebook has surpassed Yahoo and Microsoft in number of display ads delivered. That’s the good news. Less inspiring, Facebook’s ad revenue is still lagging well behind competitors. While big players like Verizon, Toyota and Ford are taking the top ad spots on Facebook, it’s looking like Facebook’s success comes down to companies you’ve probably never heard of.

Tag this one “kettle,” “pot,” “black.” The growing prospects of a Google antitrust probe on both sides of the Atlantic has drawn into the fray the search giant’s biggest nemesis: Microsoft. Not surprisingly, what’s shaping …

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Google’s search engine, which has a market share of between 80% and 90% in Europe faces its first major antitrust challenge.

An online protest this morning was building aimed at Facebook’s new data center in Oregon. The issue? How it intends to power its social network of 400 million strong: with “dirty coal.”

By now, most Gmail users have received their invitation to Google Buzz, the most talked-about social media software launch of the year. And yet the jury is still out. Mashable’s poll sees 39% of its …

We all know that major brands have to adapt fast to the changing world of social media. Now Radar DDB has produced a Social Media Brandscape that seeks to show (with a healthy dose of …