2010 Search

13 reconstructed results for daily deals in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. Steam in 2010 - Steam comes to the Mac, and sales that emptied wallets

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steam-2010

   Valve's Steam store launched on the Mac in May 2010 with Portal free for two weeks, and its holiday sales, with daily deals at 75 percent off, became a ritual. Steam had...

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3. 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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4. Bing - Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bing

   Bing had launched in June 2009 with a photographic homepage and a marketing budget that called it a "decision engine" rather than a search engine. In 2010 it took over...

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5. 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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6. FarmVille - The Facebook game your aunt sent you requests for

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/farmville

   FarmVille, launched by Zynga in June 2009, was the biggest game on Facebook in 2010 with tens of millions of daily players and more than 80 million monthly users at its...

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7. Mafia Wars - Text-based crime, energy bars and a lawsuit

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mafia-wars

   Mafia Wars was Zynga's text-heavy crime game where you did jobs, recruited friends into your mafia and waited for energy to refill. It had millions of daily players on...

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8. Flickr - Five billion photos, and the iPhone as top camera

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flickr

   Flickr passed five billion uploaded photos in September 2010 and was the serious photographer's social network: albums called sets, Creative Commons licences, groups for...

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9. DeviantArt - The largest online art community

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/deviantart

   DeviantArt was ten years old in 2010 and the home of fan art, digital painting, photography and Photoshop brushes, with well over ten million members. Its green pages,...

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10. 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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11. Webcomics: xkcd, The Oatmeal, Hyperbole and a Half - The comics that lived in Google Reader

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/webcomics-2010

    xkcd's stick-figure science jokes, The Oatmeal's ranting infographics and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half were among the most-shared things on the 2010 web, spreading...

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