2010 Search

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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. Logitech Revue with Google TV - Google puts Chrome on your television

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/logitech-revue-google-tv

   Google TV launched in October 2010 on the $299 Logitech Revue set-top box and Sony televisions, promising web search and Chrome on the big screen with a full keyboard...

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3. trending - Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-trending

   trending: Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now. Example: "#Inception is trending worldwide"

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4. bump - Posting in a forum thread to push it back to the top of the list.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-bump

   bump: Posting in a forum thread to push it back to the top of the list. Example: "bump, still looking for a Halo: Reach group"

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5. 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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6. 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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7. Google Chrome (versions 4 to 8) - The fast newcomer with tabs on top and one box for everything

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-chrome

   Chrome went from about 5 percent of worldwide browser usage at the start of 2010 to roughly 15 percent by December. Version 4 added extensions in January, version 5 in...

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8. The biggest songs of 2010 - Billboard's year-end Hot 100 top five

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hits-of-2010

   Billboard's year-end Hot 100 for 2010 was led by Kesha's Tik Tok, followed by Lady Antebellum's Need You Now, Train's Hey, Soul Sister, Katy Perry's California Gurls and...

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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Firefox 3.6 - The alternative browser with a thousand extensions

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firefox-3-6

    Firefox 3.6, released on 21 January 2010, was the browser of choice for people who cared, with about 30 percent of worldwide usage. It added Personas skins, plugin-crash...

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14. The YouTube stars of 2010 - Ray William Johnson, Smosh, nigahiga, Fred, Shane Dawson

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/youtube-creators-2010

    In 2010 the most-subscribed YouTube channels belonged to comedians who edited themselves in their bedrooms: Ray William Johnson's =3 viral-video reviews, Smosh's...

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15. The App Store in 2010 - "There's an app for that": 300,000 apps and counting

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/app-store-2010

    Apple's App Store passed 300,000 apps in late 2010 and had served billions of downloads since opening in 2008; the American Dialect Society named "app" its word of the...

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16. Inception - The blockbuster of 2010, and the BWONG that launched a thousand trailers

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/inception

    Christopher Nolan's Inception, released in July 2010, was the year's most discussed film online: forums argued about the spinning top, the trailer's booming brass note...

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17. Toy Story 3 - The highest-grossing film of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/toy-story-3

    Toy Story 3, released in June 2010, was the top-grossing film of the year worldwide and the first animated film to pass $1 billion. With Avatar still in cinemas from...

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18. Fruit Ninja - Swipe to slice, avoid the bombs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fruit-ninja

    Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, released in April 2010, made the touchscreen itself the game: swipe to slice flying fruit, avoid bombs. It was one of the top-selling iPhone...

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19. Inception BWONG - The trailer noise that took over every trailer

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/inception-bwong

    The booming brass note from the Inception trailers, nicknamed BWONG or BRAAAM, became a meme in the summer of 2010: added to cat videos, mocked in parodies and copied by...

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20. The blogosphere - Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, RSS and the Technorati top 100

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogosphere-2010

    In 2010 blogs were still the intellectual centre of the web: personal blogs on Blogger and WordPress, mommy blogs, MP3 blogs, political blogs, and professional blog...

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21. Justin Bieber - Sixteen, discovered on YouTube, and the most-searched person of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/justin-bieber

    Justin Bieber released My World 2.0 in March 2010, became the youngest solo male act to top the Billboard 200 in 47 years, and had the most-viewed video on YouTube by...

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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. 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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24. Flickr - Five billion photos, and the iPhone as top camera

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flickr

    Flickr passed five billion uploaded photos in September 2010 and was the serious photographer's social network: albums called sets, Creative Commons licences, groups for...

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25. Blogger - Blogspot blogs with orange Bs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogger

    Blogger, Google-owned since 2003, hosted millions of free blogspot.com blogs in 2010, from personal diaries to recipe blogs to the MP3 blogs of the music-download era. A...

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26. IMDb - The movie database, 20 years old

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/imdb

    IMDb celebrated its 20th anniversary in October 2010. Owned by Amazon, it was the site everyone opened to settle who was in what, with its yellow-and-black branding,...

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27. Quora - Questions answered by people who were there

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/quora

    Quora opened to the public in June 2010, founded by two former Facebook engineers. Its promise was answers from people with first-hand knowledge, and in 2010 Silicon...

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28. Addicting Games - Nickelodeon's Flash arcade

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/addicting-games

    Addicting Games, owned by Nickelodeon's parent Viacom, was one of the most-visited casual game sites in 2010, with categories like Shooting, Puzzle and Sports and a...

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29. BlackBerry Bold 9700 - The keyboard phone of the business world and the school corridor

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-bold-9700

    The Bold 9700 was the definitive 2010 BlackBerry: a compact QWERTY keyboard, an optical trackpad, the red blinking notification light, and BlackBerry Messenger....

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30. Apple TV (2nd generation) - A $99 black puck for renting shows and streaming Netflix

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/apple-tv-2010

    The second-generation Apple TV, announced on 1 September 2010, shrank to a tiny black box with no storage, rented TV episodes for 99 cents and films from $3.99, streamed...

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