2010 Search

15 reconstructed results for time in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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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. 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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8. Megaupload and Megavideo - File lockers, 72-minute limits and pirated TV

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/megavideo

   Megaupload and its video arm Megavideo were among the busiest sites on the internet in 2010, hosting everything from legitimate file transfers to full seasons of pirated...

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9. 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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10. eBay - Auctions giving way to Buy It Now

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ebay

    eBay was still the world's marketplace for used goods and collectibles in 2010, but its auction format was losing ground to fixed-price Buy It Now listings and to...

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11. AOL - Dial-up subscribers, AIM, and a content empire in the making

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aol

    AOL was spun off from Time Warner in December 2009 and spent 2010 remaking itself as a content company: it bought TechCrunch in September, ran Engadget, and still...

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12. 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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13. Something Awful - The forums that cost ten bucks

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/something-awful

    Something Awful's forums, where an account cost $9.95, were one of the most influential communities on the 2010 internet. Goons popularised Let's Play videos, ran early...

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14. Cracked.com - 6 Reasons the Listicle Ruled 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cracked

    Cracked.com, the former humour magazine, was at its peak in 2010 with numbered list articles about history, science and pop culture that were funnier and better...

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15. RapidShare - Wait 60 seconds, then download

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rapidshare

    RapidShare was the file locker of the late 2000s: paste a link, wait through a countdown, download one file at a time unless you paid for premium. In 2010 it was still...

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