2010 Search

36 reconstructed results for news feed 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. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Bed Intruder Song - "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife": the most-watched video of 2010

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bed-intruder-song

   Antoine Dodson's furious, funny interview on a Huntsville, Alabama news broadcast in July 2010 was Auto-Tuned into a song by the Gregory Brothers days later. YouTube...

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7. 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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8. troll / trolling

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-troll

   troll / trolling: Someone who provokes others online for fun, or the act of doing so. "Don't feed the trolls." Example: "he's just trolling the YouTube comments"

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9. Trolling - Do not feed the trolls

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/trolling

   Trolling, provoking people online for amusement, was the internet's defining pastime in 2010, from YouTube comment wars to 4chan raids to Trollface. "Don't feed the...

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10. noob / n00b - A newcomer, usually an incompetent or annoying one; "newb" was the kinder form.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-noob

    noob / n00b: A newcomer, usually an incompetent or annoying one; "newb" was the kinder form. Example: "stop feeding, noob"

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11. 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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12. 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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13. Google Reader - Every blog you followed, in one inbox

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-reader

    Google Reader was the RSS reader of choice for anyone who followed many blogs, with keyboard shortcuts, folders, and a Share button that made it a small social network...

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14. 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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15. WordPress.com - Hosted WordPress, and the software running the blogosphere

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wordpress-com

    WordPress powered a large share of the blogs and news sites of 2010, and WordPress.com offered hosted blogs with themes and stats for free. WordPress 3.0, released in...

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16. TechCrunch - Start-up news, bought by AOL

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/techcrunch

    TechCrunch was the loudest voice covering Silicon Valley start-ups in 2010, from Michael Arrington's scoops to the Disrupt conference. AOL announced it was buying the...

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17. 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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18. 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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19. Shit My Dad Says - From a Twitter account to a CBS sitcom in a year

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/shit-my-dad-says

    Justin Halpern's Twitter account quoting his father's blunt remarks gained a million followers in 2009-2010, became a bestselling book in May 2010 and a CBS sitcom...

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20. Cut the Rope - Feed Om Nom: a million sales in ten days

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cut-the-rope

    ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope launched in October 2010 and sold a million copies in ten days, one of the fastest-selling iPhone games to that point. Its physics puzzles and...

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21. LinkedIn - The professional network before it became a feed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/linkedin

    LinkedIn in 2010 was the online résumé: profiles, connection requests from people you met once, and recruiters' InMail. It reported passing 90 million members around the...

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22. 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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23. 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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24. Microsoft Kin - The social phone that lasted 48 days

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/microsoft-kin

    Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two, aimed at teenagers who lived on Facebook and Twitter, went on sale in May 2010 on Verizon and were discontinued on 30 June, after...

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25. Reddit - The front page of the internet, before it was

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/reddit

    In 2010 Reddit was a spartan, text-heavy site owned by Condé Nast, far smaller than Digg at the start of the year. Digg's disastrous August redesign sent a wave of users...

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26. 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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27. Google - Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google

    Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in China, added a...

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28. WikiLeaks - Collateral Murder, the war logs and Cablegate

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikileaks

    WikiLeaks defined the news in 2010. It published the Collateral Murder helicopter video in April, the Afghan War Diary in July, the Iraq War Logs in October, and began...

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29. Antoine Dodson - From a local news interview to the most-watched video of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/antoine-dodson

    Antoine Dodson became famous in July 2010 for his interview about an intruder in his sister's bedroom, which the Gregory Brothers turned into Bed Intruder Song. He...

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30. 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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