2010 Search

32 reconstructed results for buddy list in the 2010 exhibit.

1. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) - Buddy lists and away messages, fading fast

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aim

   AIM had defined instant messaging in America for a decade, with its running-man icon, buddy lists, door-opening sounds and passive-aggressive away messages. By 2010 it...

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2. Windows Live Messenger (MSN) - Nudges, winks and display names full of lyrics

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-live-messenger

   Still called MSN by almost everyone, Windows Live Messenger was the dominant instant messenger outside the United States in 2010, with hundreds of millions of users. Its...

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3. 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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4. trending - Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-trending

   trending: Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now. Example: "#Inception is trending worldwide"

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5. bump - Posting in a forum thread to push it back to the top of the list.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-bump

   bump: Posting in a forum thread to push it back to the top of the list. Example: "bump, still looking for a Halo: Reach group"

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6. 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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7. Ethan Marcotte - The designer who named responsive web design

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ethan-marcotte

   Ethan Marcotte, a web designer and A List Apart contributor, coined "responsive web design" in May 2010 and wrote the 2011 book that made it standard practice. Few...

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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Responsive web design - Ethan Marcotte names the idea, May 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/responsive-web-design

    On 25 May 2010, Ethan Marcotte published "Responsive Web Design" in A List Apart, combining fluid grids, flexible images and CSS media queries into one approach. Before...

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12. 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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13. Vevo - Official music videos come to YouTube

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vevo

    Vevo, a joint venture of Universal and Sony launched in December 2009, put official music videos on YouTube with premium ads. In 2010 its channels for Bieber, Gaga,...

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14. "X all the Y!" (Clean all the things) - From Hyperbole and a Half to every to-do list

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/x-all-the-y

    In June 2010, Allie Brosh's blog Hyperbole and a Half published "This is Why I'll Never be an Adult", with a crudely drawn figure shouting "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!" The...

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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. Yahoo! - The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/yahoo

    Yahoo! was still one of the most-visited sites on Earth in 2010, thanks to Yahoo Mail, the news-heavy portal homepage, Yahoo Answers, Flickr and Yahoo Finance. Under CEO...

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22. Skype - Free calls over the internet, video included

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/skype

    Skype was how families called abroad and how long-distance couples saw each other in 2010. It reported more than 500 million registered users, offered free...

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23. Google Talk and Gmail Chat - Chat inside your inbox

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-talk

    Google Talk, and the Gmail Chat box built into the Gmail sidebar, let people message and video chat without installing anything. In 2010 it was quietly replacing AIM for...

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24. 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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25. Photobucket - Where MySpace and forum images lived

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/photobucket

    Photobucket hosted the images that people hot-linked into MySpace profiles, forum signatures and eBay listings. In 2010 it was one of the most-visited image hosts in the...

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26. Texts From Last Night - Anonymous drunk texts, sorted by area code

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/texts-from-last-night

    Texts From Last Night posted anonymous text messages submitted by readers, tagged only with an area code, and became a 2009-2010 phenomenon with a book deal and a TV...

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27. Addicting Games - Nickelodeon's Flash arcade

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/addicting-games

    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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28. 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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29. 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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30. 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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