2010 Search

22 reconstructed results for the social network in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. Orkut - Google's social network that Brazil and India loved

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/orkut

   Orkut, Google's 2004 social network, was largely ignored in the United States but was the biggest social network in Brazil and hugely popular in India through 2010. Its...

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3. 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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4. hi5 - Big in Latin America and Portugal

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hi5

   hi5 was one of the world's largest social networks in the mid-2000s, especially in Latin America, Portugal, Romania and Thailand. In 2010 it was pivoting toward social...

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5. 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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6. 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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7. GitHub - Social coding

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/github

   GitHub, two years old in 2010, was turning Git hosting into a social network for programmers with forks, pull requests and profile pages. Rails, jQuery and Node.js...

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8. Friendster - The original social network, thriving in Southeast Asia

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/friendster

   Friendster predated MySpace and Facebook, and although it had faded in the West by 2010, it was still one of the most popular sites in the Philippines, Malaysia and...

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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. Tumblr - Reblogs, GIFs and the dark blue dashboard

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tumblr

    Tumblr grew explosively in 2010. Its dashboard, a dark blue page of posts from the blogs you followed, made reblogging and animated GIFs the currency of a new creative...

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13. 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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14. iGoogle - Your personalised homepage of gadgets

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/igoogle

    iGoogle let you build a homepage of widgets: Gmail, weather, news, a to-do list and thousands of gadgets, with themes that changed with the time of day. In 2010 it was...

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15. Digg - Social news, and the redesign that broke it

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/digg

    Digg let users "digg" stories onto a front page that could crash a small website with traffic. In August 2010, Digg version 4 removed favourite features, let publishers...

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16. 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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17. Delicious - Social bookmarking, sunset by Yahoo

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/delicious

    Delicious (originally del.icio.us) let people save bookmarks with tags and see what everyone else was saving. It had defined social bookmarking since 2003, but in...

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18. 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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19. 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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20. Formspring - Ask me anything, anonymously

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/formspring

    Formspring launched in late 2009 and spread through high schools in 2010: a page where anyone could ask you questions, often anonymously, and you answered in public. It...

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21. 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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22. Google Reader - Every blog you followed, in one inbox

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-reader

    Google Reader was the RSS reader of choice for anyone who followed many blogs, with keyboard shortcuts, folders, and a Share button that made it a small social network...

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