2010 Search

18 reconstructed results for like a boss in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Facebook - The social network at 500 million users

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facebook

   In 2010 Facebook was six years old, had just overtaken Google as the most-visited site in the United States on some weekly measures, and passed 500 million users in...

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2. Instagram - Square photos, filters, iPhone only

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/instagram

   Instagram launched on 6 October 2010 as an iPhone-only app for square photos with retro filters and reached a million users by December. Its filters, such as X-Pro II,...

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3. Addicting Games - Nickelodeon's Flash arcade

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   Addicting Games, owned by Nickelodeon's parent Viacom, was one of the most-visited casual game sites in 2010, with categories like Shooting, Puzzle and Sports and a...

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4. Twitter - 140 characters and the Fail Whale

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/twitter

   Twitter turned four in 2010 and became the internet's newswire. Users sent about 50 million tweets a day in February and roughly 90 million a day by September, the...

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5. Reddit - The front page of the internet, before it was

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/reddit

   In 2010 Reddit was a spartan, text-heavy site owned by Condé Nast, far smaller than Digg at the start of the year. Digg's disastrous August redesign sent a wave of users...

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6. YouTube - Two billion views a day, 360p by default

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/youtube

   YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday in May 2010 by announcing more than two billion views a day. Users uploaded 24 hours of video every minute in March and 35 hours a...

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7. LinkedIn - The professional network before it became a feed

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/linkedin

   LinkedIn in 2010 was the online résumé: profiles, connection requests from people you met once, and recruiters' InMail. It reported passing 90 million members around the...

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8. Foursquare - Check in, become the mayor

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/foursquare

   Foursquare made 2010 the year of the check-in. Users broadcast their location to friends, collected badges, and fought to become the "mayor" of their coffee shop. The...

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9. Bebo - The UK and Ireland's teen network, sold for a pittance

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bebo

   Bebo had been the biggest social network among teenagers in the UK and Ireland, and AOL bought it for $850 million in 2008. In June 2010 AOL sold it to Criterion Capital...

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10. Omegle - Talk to strangers

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/omegle

    Omegle launched in 2009 as an anonymous text chat with strangers and added video chat in March 2010 as Chatroulette's popularity surged. Its tagline, "Talk to...

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11. Qzone - China's biggest social network, built on QQ

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/qzone

    Tencent's Qzone, attached to the QQ messenger, was by most measures the largest social network in China in 2010, with hundreds of millions of active users decorating...

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12. Sina Weibo - China's microblog, one year old

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sina-weibo

    Launched in August 2009 after Twitter was blocked in China, Sina Weibo grew rapidly through 2010, mixing 140-character posts (which fit far more meaning in Chinese) with...

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13. VKontakte - Russia's Facebook, with a music library

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vkontakte

    VKontakte (VK) was the dominant social network across Russia and the former Soviet states in 2010. Its interface closely resembled early Facebook, but it let users...

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14. Hulu - Free TV on the web, with ads, US only

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hulu

    Hulu streamed current episodes of network TV shows for free with commercials, a revelation in 2010 when most television was still cable or DVD. Hulu Plus, a...

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15. Amazon - Books, Kindle, and a store that sold everything

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/amazon

    Amazon in 2010 was the everything store with a cluttered tan-and-orange homepage, two-day shipping for $79-a-year Prime members, and a Kindle business so successful that...

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16. Craigslist - Plain blue links that killed newspaper classifieds

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/craigslist

    Craigslist looked exactly like it had in the 1990s: a list of blue links on a white page, city by city, with apartments, jobs, used furniture and missed connections. In...

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17. Groupon - One deal a day, and a $6 billion offer refused

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/groupon

    Groupon emailed one local deal a day, half-price yoga classes or restaurant vouchers, that only activated if enough people bought in. It was called the fastest-growing...

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18. Google Docs - Word processing in the browser, shared with a link

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-docs

    Google Docs let students write group projects in the same document at the same time, which felt like magic in 2010. In January it began storing any file type, and in...

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