2010 Search

37 reconstructed results for social in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. 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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3. Qzone - China's biggest social network, built on QQ

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/qzone

   Tencent's Qzone, attached to the QQ messenger, was by most measures the largest social network in China in 2010, with hundreds of millions of active users decorating...

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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. Advice Animals - Philosoraptor, Socially Awkward Penguin, Courage Wolf and friends

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/advice-animals

    Advice Animals were image macros with an animal's head on a colour-wheel background and a two-line joke in Impact font. Advice Dog started it in 2006; by 2010...

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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Delicious - Social bookmarking, sunset by Yahoo

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/delicious

    Delicious (originally del.icio.us) let people save bookmarks with tags and see what everyone else was saving. It had defined social bookmarking since 2003, but in...

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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. Tumblr - Reblogs, GIFs and the dark blue dashboard

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tumblr

    Tumblr grew explosively in 2010. Its dashboard, a dark blue page of posts from the blogs you followed, made reblogging and animated GIFs the currency of a new creative...

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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - "I'm on a horse."

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/old-spice-man-your-man-could-smell-like

    Wieden+Kennedy's Old Spice advert, starring Isaiah Mustafa in a single unbroken shot, was posted to YouTube in February 2010 and became the year's most-shared...

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23. 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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24. BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) - PINs, the D and the R, and free unlimited messaging

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-messenger

    BBM let BlackBerry owners message each other free over the data plan, with delivered and read receipts, group chats and PIN-swapping as a social ritual. In 2010 it was a...

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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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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. 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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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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