2010 Search

33 reconstructed results for profile song in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. 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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3. Kesha: Tik Tok - Billboard's number-one song of 2010

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tik-tok-kesha

   "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" opened the biggest song of 2010. Tik Tok topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks and finished as Billboard's year-end...

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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. hi5 - Big in Latin America and Portugal

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hi5

   hi5 was one of the world's largest social networks in the mid-2000s, especially in Latin America, Portugal, Romania and Thailand. In 2010 it was pivoting toward social...

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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. I see what you did there - Acknowledging a pun or a sly joke.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-i-see-what-you-did-there

    I see what you did there: Acknowledging a pun or a sly joke. Example: "'Bed Intruder Song' on the Billboard charts... I see what you did there"

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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Friendster - The original social network, thriving in Southeast Asia

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/friendster

    Friendster predated MySpace and Facebook, and although it had faded in the West by 2010, it was still one of the most popular sites in the Philippines, Malaysia and...

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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. Double Rainbow - "What does it mean?"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/double-rainbow

    Paul Vasquez filmed a double rainbow over Yosemite in January 2010 and wept with joy on camera. The clip sat unnoticed until Jimmy Kimmel tweeted it in July, after which...

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23. Robot Unicorn Attack - Always, I wanna be with you: the Flash game of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/robot-unicorn-attack

    Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack, released in February 2010, was the Flash game of the year: a rainbow-trailing robot unicorn dashing through a pastel dreamscape to...

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24. Ringtones and ringback tones - The $2.99 ringtone business in its last big years

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ringtones-2010

    Ringtones were still a multi-billion-dollar business in 2010, sold by carriers and services like Myxer and Jamster, and Myxer was one of Google's fastest-rising searches...

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25. Like a Boss - From a Lonely Island song to a caption for everything

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/like-a-boss

    "Like a Boss", from The Lonely Island's 2009 SNL Digital Short with Seth Rogen, became a 2010 catchphrase and image macro: any mundane act, captioned "like a boss". It...

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26. Chatroulette Piano Improv (Merton) - A hooded pianist serenading strangers

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette-piano

    In March 2010 a hooded man known as Merton posted videos of himself improvising songs about the strangers Chatroulette paired him with, and their reactions. It was the...

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27. 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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28. 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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29. 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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30. 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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