2010 Search

36 reconstructed results for music player in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flash-player-10-1

   Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...

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3. 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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4. 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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5. iPod nano (6th generation) - A tiny touchscreen square that people wore as a watch

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipod-nano-6

   The 2010 iPod nano dropped the click wheel and video camera for a 1.5-inch multitouch square with a clip, the size of a postage stamp. Watch-strap accessories turned it...

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6. 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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7. Vimeo - Where filmmakers uploaded in HD

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vimeo

   Vimeo was the arty alternative to YouTube in 2010: cleaner pages, HD playback, no ads in the player, and a community of designers, animators and indie filmmakers. Its...

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8. 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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9. 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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10. Bandcamp - Name your price

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bandcamp

    Bandcamp gave independent artists a simple page to stream and sell their music, including "name your price" downloads in any format from MP3 to FLAC. By 2010 it was...

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11. iPod touch (4th generation) - An iPhone 4 without the phone, and the teenager's first iOS device

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipod-touch-4

    The September 2010 iPod touch borrowed the iPhone 4's Retina display, A4 chip and FaceTime camera, starting at $229. For millions of teenagers it was the first App Store...

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12. RuneScape - The browser MMO played in the school library

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/runescape

    RuneScape ran in a browser with Java, needed no download, and had millions of players in 2010. Its low-polygon world, skill grinding, Wilderness PvP and player-run...

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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. MP3 culture - Ripping CDs, LimeWire folders, mislabelled tracks and the 4 GB iPod

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mp3-culture

    In 2010 music was files: ripped from CDs, downloaded from LimeWire or torrents, bought from iTunes, traded on USB sticks, and organised (badly) in iTunes or Winamp. A...

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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. LiveJournal - Communities, moods and friends-only posts

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/livejournal

    LiveJournal was the blogging community that fandoms, writers and teenagers had used since 1999. Owned by Russian company SUP since 2007, it was in slow decline in the...

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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. 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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21. 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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22. OK Go: This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg machine) - One take, one warehouse, one enormous machine

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ok-go-this-too-shall-pass

    OK Go, already famous for their treadmill video, released a single-take video in March 2010 in which a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine plays out over four minutes....

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23. Kinect for Xbox 360 - You are the controller

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kinect

    Kinect launched on 4 November 2010 in North America as a $149 camera bar that tracked your whole body and voice for the Xbox 360. Microsoft sold eight million units in...

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24. Android 2.2 Froyo - Flash on a phone, tethering, and a huge speed boost

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-froyo

    Android 2.2, announced at Google I/O in May 2010, made Android phones two to five times faster with a JIT compiler, added Wi-Fi hotspot tethering, Chrome-to-Phone, apps...

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25. 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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26. HTML5 - Native video, canvas and the end of plugins, still a draft

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/html5

    HTML5 was a working draft in 2010, but the fight over Flash made it a household word. YouTube launched an HTML5 player beta in January, Apple published a showcase in...

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27. 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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28. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - The horror game that made YouTube scream

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/amnesia-dark-descent

    Frictional Games' Amnesia, released in September 2010, gave players no weapons, only a lantern and a sanity meter. Its terror made it the perfect subject for webcam...

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29. Hulu - Free TV on the web, with ads, US only

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hulu

    Hulu streamed current episodes of network TV shows for free with commercials, a revelation in 2010 when most television was still cable or DVD. Hulu Plus, a...

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30. Netflix - Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netflix

    In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and, from August, the...

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