It's sad that Google is losing its social layer; actually the latest and grandest of its attempts to be social. I think the company lacks social skills.

Google Plus was a beautiful piece of technology; it's just that Google's commercial and competitive motivation in making it was so transparent. That was the only reason to dislike the product, but it was a big one.

Opera was quite a nice company during the era that it had myopera and stopped being a nice company after they abandoned it. That was also a very well crafted product. I quite liked myopera, but never really trusted it to continue.

But wow; you can't really trust Google with any of its products. S-o m-a-n-y disappointments. Good services and products just abandoned.

It's interesting that Tumblr's still around, despite being passed around between different companies.