2010 Search

18 reconstructed results for music player in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. 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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3. Pandora - Type a band, get a radio station

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pandora

   Pandora's Music Genome Project turned any song or artist into a personalised radio station with thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. Free listening was capped at 40 hours...

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4. Vimeo - Where filmmakers uploaded in HD

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vimeo

   Vimeo was the arty alternative to YouTube in 2010: cleaner pages, HD playback, no ads in the player, and a community of designers, animators and indie filmmakers. Its...

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5. SoundCloud - Waveforms and timed comments

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/soundcloud

   SoundCloud, founded in Berlin in 2007, was becoming the place for producers and DJs to share tracks in 2010. Its orange waveform player, with comments pinned to moments...

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6. iTunes Store - Ten billion songs sold, and the Beatles arrive

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/itunes-store

   The iTunes Store was the centre of legal digital music in 2010: it passed ten billion songs sold in February, iTunes 10 arrived in September with the ill-fated Ping...

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7. Bandcamp - Name your price

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bandcamp

   Bandcamp gave independent artists a simple page to stream and sell their music, including "name your price" downloads in any format from MP3 to FLAC. By 2010 it was...

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8. RuneScape - The browser MMO played in the school library

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/runescape

   RuneScape ran in a browser with Java, needed no download, and had millions of players in 2010. Its low-polygon world, skill grinding, Wilderness PvP and player-run...

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9. MySpace - The fading giant with glitter graphics and a Top 8

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/myspace

   By 2010 MySpace had lost its crown to Facebook and was shedding users and staff under News Corp, which had bought it in 2005. In October it relaunched as a "social...

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10. Hype Machine - The MP3 blog aggregator

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine

    Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...

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11. Last.fm - Scrobble everything you play

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/last-fm

    Last.fm recorded ("scrobbled") every track you played in iTunes, Winamp or your iPod and turned it into charts, recommendations and neighbours with similar taste. In...

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12. Grooveshark - Any song, on demand, free, and legally doomed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/grooveshark

    Grooveshark let anyone stream almost any song on demand, free, from a slick Flash interface, because users uploaded the tracks themselves. It was hugely popular in 2010...

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13. LiveJournal - Communities, moods and friends-only posts

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/livejournal

    LiveJournal was the blogging community that fandoms, writers and teenagers had used since 1999. Owned by Russian company SUP since 2007, it was in slow decline in the...

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14. Spotify - The European streaming service Americans could not get

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/spotify

    In 2010 Spotify was available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands, often by invitation, with a free ad-supported tier and a premium...

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15. Rdio - Skype's founders try music streaming in America

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rdio

    Rdio, from Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, launched in the US and Canada in August 2010 as a subscription streaming service with a social feed of what...

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16. Newgrounds - Everything, by everyone: the Flash portal

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/newgrounds

    Newgrounds was the original home of Flash games and animations, where amateur creators uploaded movies and games for the community to rate. In 2010 its Flash Portal...

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17. 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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18. Netflix - Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netflix

    In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and, from August, the...

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