2010 Search

43 reconstructed results for facebook in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. Facebook official - A relationship confirmed by changing your relationship status; "FBO".

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-facebook-official

   Facebook official: A relationship confirmed by changing your relationship status; "FBO". Example: "it's not real until it's Facebook official"

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3. 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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4. CityVille - Zynga's fastest-growing game ever, December 2010

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cityville

   CityVille launched on Facebook on 2 December 2010 and passed 20 million monthly users within two weeks, faster than any Facebook game before it. It was FarmVille with a...

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5. Bejeweled Blitz - One-minute matches and a weekly friends leaderboard

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bejeweled-blitz

   PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz turned the match-three classic into 60-second rounds with a leaderboard of your Facebook friends that reset every week. In 2010 it was one of...

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6. 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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7. Pet Society - Playfish's cute pets, bought by EA

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pet-society

   Pet Society, from Playfish, let you dress up a pet, decorate its house and visit friends' pets, and was one of the largest Facebook games of 2010. Electronic Arts had...

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8. Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook's 26-year-old CEO and Time's Person of the Year

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mark-zuckerberg

   In 2010 Mark Zuckerberg was 26, running a company with 500 million users, the subject of an unflattering Oscar-winning film, and Time's Person of the Year. His hoodie,...

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9. friend / unfriend

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-friend

   friend / unfriend: To add or remove someone on Facebook; "unfriend" was the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 word of the year. Example: "she unfriended me after the...

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10. 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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11. poke

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-poke

    poke: A Facebook feature that notified someone you had poked them, and nothing else. Nobody knew what it meant. Example: "why does my aunt keep poking me"

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12. wall / wall post

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-wall

    wall / wall post: The public message area of a Facebook profile; writing on someone's wall was the 2010 equivalent of a public shout-out. Example: "happy birthday!!!...

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13. 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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14. 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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15. The Social Network - "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-social-network

    David Fincher's film about Facebook's founding, written by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, opened on 1 October 2010 to rave reviews and won...

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16. RockMelt - The social browser backed by Marc Andreessen

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rockmelt

    RockMelt, released as a beta in November 2010, was a Chromium-based browser with Facebook friends down the left edge and feeds down the right, built on the idea that the...

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17. Firesheep - The Firefox extension that hijacked Facebook sessions on café Wi-Fi

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firesheep

    Released on 24 October 2010, Firesheep let anyone on the same open Wi-Fi network click into other people's Facebook, Twitter and Amazon sessions, because those sites...

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18. The mobile web in 2010 - m.facebook.com, WAP pages, and a web that did not fit

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-web-2010

    In 2010 the mobile web meant separate m.sites with stripped-down layouts (m.facebook.com, m.youtube.com), WAP pages on feature phones, and pinch-zooming full desktop...

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19. 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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20. omg

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-omg

    omg: Oh my god; added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, having peaked in texts and Facebook statuses long before. Example: "OMG iPhone 4 has a front camera"

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21. The Huffington Post - The blog that became a newspaper

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/huffington-post

    The Huffington Post mixed aggregated news, celebrity bloggers and huge headlines into the busiest news blog of 2010, with comment sections in the thousands. Its traffic...

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22. wtf

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-wtf

    wtf: What the f***; the reaction to anything confusing, from a Facebook redesign to a Chatroulette stranger. Example: "wtf is a vuvuzela"

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23. check in / mayor

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-check-in

    check in / mayor: To announce your location on Foursquare (or, from August, Facebook Places); the most frequent visitor became a venue's mayor. Example: "just ousted...

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24. Mobile data in 2010: 3G, caps, and the first 4G - A megabit or two on a good day, and the end of unlimited

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-data-2010

    Most smartphones in 2010 used 3G networks that delivered a megabit or two in practice, enough for email, Facebook and a slow YouTube video. AT&T ended unlimited data for...

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25. 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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26. Y U NO Guy - "Y U NO" + any complaint, in broken English

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/y-u-no

    Y U NO Guy, a rage face taken from a manga panel, became a 2010 image macro for exasperated questions: "Facebook, Y U NO let me dislike?" It was one of the first rage...

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27. like (verb)

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-like

    like (verb): To click the thumbs-up on a post; from April 2010 also on any website with the Like button. Example: "37 people like this"

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28. 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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29. 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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30. 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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