Death Anniversaries, 2011

every grave in this cemetery, by year of death. this page covers 2011.

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2011 Salon Premium — salon premium was the subscription program david talbot's salon ran from april 2001 to roughly 2011. the pitch was a small share of the magazine's con
2011 Drunk Duck — drunk duck was a free webcomic hosting platform dylan squires launched in 2002. the name came from a friend's drawing of squires' dead pet duck. by th
2011 GLEE.com — glee.com launched in february 2007 as community connect's lgbt social network. it was the last addition to the same portfolio that already ran blackpl
2011 Yahoo Pulse — yahoo pulse was a june 6 2010 rename of yahoo profiles, launched as part of yahoo's facebook integration push under carol bartz. it offered a single d
2011 ChinaRen — a stanford-alumni founder trio built china's first mainstream campus community in 1999. sohu bought them in september 2000 for around thirty million d
2011 Sxipper — sxipper was a firefox extension that filled login forms and managed openid personas, built by sxip identity in vancouver under dick hardt. it launched
2011 Jabberwacky — one of the first web chatbots that actually learned from what people typed at it. rollo carpenter had been carrying the project since 1988. it went on
2011 gamerDNA — gamerdna was a social network for video game players, built around the character you played as rather than the person behind the keyboard. it stored g
2011 Mynet Sohbet — mynet sohbet was where turkish people talked to strangers before facebook arrived and made everyone use their real name. rooms sorted by city and by a
2011 Ayna.com — in arabic أين is transliterated ayna and means where, which is the correct name for a search engine and one nobody in the english-speaking web ever th
2011 Spurl.net — spurl was the icelandic answer to del.icio.us and it had one idea the winner did not. when you saved a page, spurl kept a copy of the text, so you cou
2011 Advanced Photo System — five camera companies spent about a billion dollars building a film format that carried its own exposure data on a magnetic layer and let you choose t
2011 GameDaily — gamedaily started as a trade newsletter that landed in the inbox of people who made games for a living, and gigex bought it in may 2004 and built a co
Jan 2011 Postopia — post cereals put a games portal on the web in february 2001 and ran it for ten years, mascot worlds and flash games built by an outfit called skyworks
1 Jan 2011 Forestle — a twenty-five-year-old in wittenberg built a search engine in 2008 that promised to protect a tenth of a square meter of rainforest per query and hand
2011 One Million Monkeys Typing — a collaborative fiction site built by nina zito and ilya kreymerman where a story was a tree instead of a line. you posted a snippet of a few hundred
2011 ImHalal — imhalal opened on 1 september 2009 out of the netherlands, built by reza sardeha after he and his friends got tired of ordinary search engines returni
Jan 2011 Lemondrop — tim armstrong's reorganization closed aol's men's site and its women's site in the same week. lemondrop had launched in september 2008 with the taglin
2011 Open Source Cinema — a montreal filmmaker put his raw footage on the web under a creative commons license, built an editor into the browser, and told anyone who showed up
2011 字幕.in — a jobless 25-year-old built it in january 2007, because niconico douga had shown him that comments belonged on top of the video and not under it. 字幕.i
Jan 2011 Roma Victor — a small studio in brighton built thirty square kilometers of second-century britannia and let the local magistrate nail players to a cross for a week
Jan 2011 Factor 5 — cologne, 1987: five people walk out of rainbow arts to work for themselves and spend the next decade pulling more out of cheap hardware than the docum
2011 Shkolny Portal — 13,950,000 rubles of federal money bought a link directory, a borrowed mail service and a forum on off-the-shelf software, presented to the education
Jan 2011 U.B. Funkeys — a white plastic dock sat next to the family pc, and whichever little vinyl figure you clipped onto it became your character in a windows world called
2011 Gregarius — marco shipped gregarius 0.6.1 on 26 november 2008 and never wrote another release note. the project site and its seven subdomains kept answering anywa
3 Jan 2011 Blipville — twelve was the average age of a blipville user, which tells you most of what the site was. tv4 ran a virtual town on a fictional caribbean island call
4 Jan 2011 Motorola, Inc. — two brothers named galvin incorporated it in chicago in 1928 to sell a box that let battery radios run off wall current. eighty-two years later it had
4 Jan 2011 Mercury — edsel ford drew a brand to fill the price gap between a ford and a lincoln, and for forty years that gap was real enough to sell cars into. by 2010 me
5 Jan 2011 Wik.is — mindtouch forked mediawiki in 2006, threw out wiki markup in favor of xhtml and a wysiwyg editor, then gave the result away as free hosting on a two-l
Jan 2011 Blue Mars — blue mars was the honolulu-based virtual world platform from avatar reality that opened public beta in september 2009 with the pitch of being a next-g
17 Jan 2011 Nokia Comes with Music — nokia comes with music was the bundled unlimited music subscription that shipped with an xpressmusic phone in the uk on 17 october 2008. one year of d
17 Jan 2011 The Sims Carnival — ea put a game-making tool on the web in february 2008 and hung the sims name on it, so that anybody could assemble a flash game from supplied art and
18 Jan 2011 Kodachrome — kodachrome was color film with no color in it. the dyes went in at the lab, during a development process so specific that by the end there was exactly
19 Jan 2011 Propaganda Games — vancouver game studio that lived almost entirely inside disney interactive. founded september 2005 by ex-eaa and ex-radical staff, bought by disney wi
21 Jan 2011 WinAce — ace beat rar on compression by a few percent for about two years, and a few percent was never going to be enough against a format that was already on
21 Jan 2011 UK Online — sky bought easynet in 2005 and inherited a dial-up isp from 1994 that had spent the previous year embarrassing the entire british broadband market wit
23 Jan 2011 VeryCD — verycd was china's great index of the ed2k network, a site where you searched for a film or an album and got the emule link that pulled it down over t
24 Jan 2011 GetRight — getright did one thing that mattered enormously on a dial-up modem, it let you resume a download that had died halfway. before it, a dropped connectio
25 Jan 2011 fflick — fflick read movie tweets and sorted them into positive and negative buckets. it launched in august 2010 and google bought it five months later for ten
26 Jan 2011 Bakchich — bakchich.info launched in may 2006 as a french investigative and satirical news site, named after the arabic word for the money you hand an official t
Jan 2011 Wizard Magazine — wizard was the bible of north american comic collectors from the early-1990s bubble through twenty years of decline. it shipped 235 monthly issues, ra
31 Jan 2011 Apple Xserve — apple's nine-year experiment in selling rack-mount servers to companies that already owned a lot of macs. the xserve launched at wwdc 2002 with a powe
Jan 2011 SideStep — sidestep launched in 1999 as a browser plugin that searched airline and hotel sites from inside internet explorer. through the 2000s it became one of
Feb 2011 Plastic.com — plastic was a community link aggregator launched in january 2001 by automatic media, the umbrella that briefly held feed and suck.com after both webzi
Feb 2011 Portal of Evil — portal of evil was a catalog of the weirdest personal websites on the internet, built in cleveland in late 1999 by k. thor jensen and chet faliszek, w
Feb 2011 Modu — dov moran sold the company that made the usb flash drive for one point six billion dollars and spent the next four years on a phone the size of a cred
Feb 2011 Vinismo — vinismo was an encyclopedia of wine running on mediawiki, started in montreal by evan prodromou after wikitravel and licensed so that anybody could co
1 Feb 2011 Mozilla Prism — benjamin smedberg built the prototype as a conference demo in 2006 and mark finkle turned it into a mozilla labs project called prism, which put one w
9 Feb 2011 Palm Pilot — the personal digital assistant. before smartphones, you carried a palm pilot for your calendar, contacts, and notes. graffiti was the handwriting inpu
13 Feb 2011 Playhouse Disney — at 8:55 on the morning of 13 february 2011 a preschool block signed off with a short episode of handy manny's school for tools, and the following day
14 Feb 2011 Microsoft Virtual PC — virtual pc was the desktop virtualization product connectix released in june 1997 for mac and ported to windows by 1999. microsoft acquired it in febr
14 Feb 2011 TradElect — accenture built it on windows server 2003 and sql server 2000, the london stock exchange paid around forty million pounds, and in june 2007 it replace
15 Feb 2011 Microsoft CardSpace — cardspace was microsoft's attempt to put a system-level identity wallet inside windows. it shipped with .net 3.0 in november 2006 under the codename i
15 Feb 2011 Windows CardSpace — kim cameron wrote seven laws of identity for microsoft and cardspace was the product built to obey them. you would keep your logins as cards in a wall
17 Feb 2011 Sonic Solutions — three people walked out of lucasfilm's audio division in 1986 and built the machine that took the hiss off old recordings. nonoise shipped in mid 1987
18 Feb 2011 Bizarre Creations — bizarre creations was a british game studio that made the project gotham racing series for microsoft. geometry wars was their tiny inside-joke breakou
Feb 2011 ivi TV — $4.99 a month bought you new york and seattle broadcast television on a computer anywhere in the world, which is the part the networks could not live
23 Feb 2011 TBD.com — tbd was allbritton's washington dc hyperlocal news bet. jim brady ran it and erik wemple edited it. traffic hit 1.5 million unique viewers in six mont
2011 PictoChat — ten meters was the whole network. pictochat came preloaded on every nintendo ds from november 2004, with no account and no server behind it, which mea
27 Feb 2011 Djangy — two founders spent about seven months building a push-to-deploy host for django apps, got as far as a private beta with an email waiting list, and the
28 Feb 2011 Cedega — transgaming forked wine while it was still under a permissive license and closed the source, then sold the result as a five dollar a month subscriptio
28 Feb 2011 Swebits — on 31 may 2006 swedish police walked into a hosting facility looking for the pirate bay and carried swebits servers out with them, which took a year a
Mar 2011 Outside.in — a brooklyn startup that tried to turn local blogs into news for any zip code you typed. it worked best where the neighborhoods were dense and the blog
7 Mar 2011 Next New Networks — five people started next new networks in march 2007 with eight million dollars, on the idea that web video needed programmed channels rather than loos
8 Mar 2011 Fotopic.net — fotopic.net was a british photo-share host that ran from 2001 to 2011. it was the online home of a large amateur uk railway photography archive and a
10 Mar 2011 Politics Daily — twenty two paid journalists, several of them on six figures, hired in a single month of 2009 to give aol a washington bureau it could point at. melind
11 Mar 2011 Google Gears — google gears was a browser plugin from 2007 that added the features web apps did not yet have: a local sqlite database, background worker threads, a l
15 Mar 2011 Faunasphere — a browser game about cleaning up a polluted world one animal at a time. big fish games launched it in 2009 and put a facebook version out the next yea
15 Mar 2011 Dimdim — salesforce bought dimdim on 6 january 2011 for thirty one million dollars, and the notices went out almost immediately: free accounts would stop worki
16 Mar 2011 Windows Live Spaces — windows live spaces launched in december 2004 as msn spaces, microsoft's answer to blogger and myspace bolted onto the msn messenger identity that mos
20 Mar 2011 Twitoaster — twitter in 2009 had no threads. replies landed as loose messages with an @ stuck on the front, and reassembling a conversation was manual work, so arn
23 Mar 2011 Swoopo — the model was pay-per-bid: every bid cost real money, and every bid reset the clock. if you were the last person standing, you got a laptop for eleven
27 Mar 2011 FLO TV / MediaFLO — flo tv was qualcomm's bet that the future of mobile video was a broadcast tower and a tuner inside the phone. verizon launched the first version in ma
28 Mar 2011 Revolution Money — american express agreed to buy revolution money in november 2009 for around three hundred million dollars and closed the deal that january. fourteen m
Mar 2011 Thumbplay — thumbplay launched in september 2004 as a new york mobile-content subscription. ten dollars a month for ten credits, spend the credits on ringtones, w
31 Mar 2011 Windows Live Toolbar — windows live toolbar was microsoft's replacement for the msn search toolbar, shipping in the windows live wave series inside internet explorer 6 throu
31 Mar 2011 The Agency: Covert Ops — sony online entertainment announced a spy mmo in july 2007 for playstation 3 and pc, with no character classes and a promise that one shot to the head
31 Mar 2011 Blink — oslo, 1 february 2002: a norwegian newspaper opened a social network before english had settled on a word for one. blink was built inside db medialab,
31 Mar 2011 smart.fm — 1,000 yen a month was the number that ended it. cerego japan opened the site in october 2007 as iknow!, a japanese-only drill for people learning engl
Apr 2011 Kosmix — a search startup from the junglee founders that could not out-google google, so it kept becoming other things: vertical search, then auto-built topic
Apr 2011 Flexplay (EZ-D) — flexplay sold a dvd with a dye sitting in the resin between its two halves, and the dye reacted with air. sealed in a vacuum pack it kept for about a
Apr 2011 PhotoWorks — photoworks began in 1976 as seattle filmworks, a mail-order lab that sold respooled motion picture film and developed it by post. every envelope came
1 Apr 2011 Qwest — a railroad right of way is a thin strip of land that already runs between every city in the country, and philip anschutz owned one. qwest was the comp
1 Apr 2011 HanseNet — hamburg's electricity company started an internet provider in 1995 because it already owned ducts under the city. an italian broadband firm bought mos
Apr 2011 feedalizr — cape town and são paulo built the first desktop client for friendfeed, shipped it as an adobe air download in april 2008, and kept adding services to
3 Apr 2011 Gizmo5 — a sip softphone built on open standards by michael robertson, the guy from mp3.com and linspire. cross-platform desktop and a couple of mobile clients
4 Apr 2011 AlltheWeb — alltheweb was the search engine you used when you wanted to feel smart about not just defaulting to google. it ran on the fast crawler out of trondhei
5 Apr 2011 TokBox — tokbox let you make a video call by sending someone a link, with no download and no account required, which in 2007 felt like a small miracle. it ran
8 Apr 2011 Google Hotpot — five months is how long the name lasted. google needed a pile of restaurant ratings it owned outright after the yelp purchase fell apart, so on 15 nov
12 Apr 2011 Flip Video — the flip was a pocket camcorder for a window of about three years between the death of the camcorder and the camera phone becoming good enough. cisco
12 Apr 2011 Download Squad — a $315 million deal for the huffington post in february 2011 is what killed it. aol reorganized everything it owned under arianna huffington, and a bl
14 Apr 2011 Encyclopedia Dramatica — on 14 april 2011 sherrod degrippo pointed encyclopediadramatica.com at a clean new site called oh internet and said shock for shock's sake was old. th
Apr 2011 Sun StarOffice — staroffice was a hamburg-built office suite from 1985 that sun bought in 1999 because licensing microsoft office for 42,000 employees would have cost
15 Apr 2011 2collab — 2collab was elsevier's attempt at delicious for scientists. you saved the papers you read with their citation details attached, and shared a reading l
15 Apr 2011 Yahoo!Xtra — yahoo!xtra was a joint venture between yahoo!7 and telecom new zealand, announced in december 2006 and live on 1 march 2007. yahoo!7 held 51 percent a
15 Apr 2011 Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner — a virus scan that ran inside a web page, from the years when that sounded like progress. microsoft opened windows live safety center in beta on 1 nove
20 Apr 2011 PSP Go — psp go was the umd-drive-removed psp variant sony shipped in october 2009 at $249, with a sliding face and 16gb of internal flash for download-only ga
21 Apr 2011 Yahoo Buzz — yahoo buzz launched in february 2008 as a community-curated news front page where users could vote stories up and down, with a buzz button that publis
21 Apr 2011 JoWooD Entertainment — liezen is a town of about eight thousand people in styria, and for a decade it was the head office of a publicly listed video game publisher. jowood p
24 Apr 2011 Adobe Soundbooth — soundbooth was adobe's consumer-tier audio editor for the four years between adobe acquiring cool edit pro and the audition rebrand catching up. it sh
Apr 2011 Flock — flock launched in october 2005 from bart decrem and geoffrey arone as a firefox fork that built your social internet straight into the browser chrome.
27 Apr 2011 Urlesque — stephen lenz was running moviefone for aol when he noticed that nobody in the company's very large stable of blogs was covering the internet itself. u
29 Apr 2011 JamLegend — two million registered players and a hundred and ten million recorded plays, all of it inside a browser tab with the number row standing in for a fret
30 Apr 2011 Whrrl — whrrl was pelago's location-based check-in app built out of seattle by ex-amazon engineers jeff holden and darren vengroff. it launched in october 200
Apr 2011 Baidu Youa — taobao had already won by october 2008 and baidu built a consumer marketplace anyway. youa opened in beta on the 18th and to everyone ten days later,
1 May 2011 Going.com — a boston startup that wanted to be the thing you checked before you went out, back when checking meant sitting at a desktop. it listed nightlife and e
May 2011 PhoneValet Message Center — a small box on the phone line with a mac behind it. parliant shipped phonevalet in july 2003 as a call log that announced callers out loud, then in 20
3 May 2011 Jott — jott was a us voice-to-text service that ran from april 2006 to may 2011. you called a toll-free number, spoke for up to thirty seconds, and jott tran
3 May 2011 MyPhotoAlbum — the free-homepage company that ran fortunecity sold the homepages in June 2008, renamed itself MyPhotoAlbum Inc. after its photo service, bought dotPh
4 May 2011 Lulu Poetry — fourteen million poems were deleted on 4 may 2011, three weeks after the people holding them said they would be. lulu.com had bought poetry.com in 200
5 May 2011 Qwerly — thirty million lookups a month were going through the api and about fifty thousand people were visiting the website, so max niederhofer closed the web
15 May 2011 ShockHound — hot topic was a mall chain that sold band shirts to american teenagers, and in late 2008 it opened an mp3 store where the shirt and the album went thr
16 May 2011 Nokia Ovi — ovi was nokia's services umbrella, announced in london on 29 august 2007 as the door (ovi means door in finnish) to a brand that would sit above symbi
16 May 2011 Slashfood — the slashfood editor signed off at 4:21 in the afternoon on 16 may 2011 with a post explaining that aol had bought the huffington post and no longer n
18 May 2011 Dabble DB — avi bryant and andrew catton ran a smalltalk consulting shop in vancouver and spent a year building a database that anyone could make by pasting in a
May 2011 Blippy — a palo alto startup pitched a social feed for purchases, you link a credit card, it posts what you buy for your followers to see. the investors were t
20 May 2011 eComStation — ecomstation was the kind of operating system its users kept alive in defiance of every signal from the market. serenity systems licensed os/2 warp fro
23 May 2011 enTourage eDGe — the entourage edge was a dual screen android device that hinged a 9.7 inch e-ink reader to a 10.1 inch color lcd, so you could read on one side and wr
24 May 2011 MyBlogLog — mybloglog was the widget that showed tiny avatars of the last people who had visited your blog, sitting in the sidebar of half the wordpress and typep
24 May 2011 batug.com — batug.com was a turkish basketball webzine that covered the nba the way a fanzine covers a band, with a masthead of writers who were not paid and a ho
26 May 2011 Google Blog Search — on 26 may 2011 google put the blog search api on a spring cleaning list with a batch of other deprecations, and the service went with it. it had launc
27 May 2011 Zeebo — a qualcomm-and-tectoy joint idea, ship a game console into brazil and mexico that skipped physical media entirely and downloaded everything over 3g. t
May 2011 Football Manager Live — football manager live was the subscription mmo version of the management game, made by sports interactive and published by sega. it dropped up to a th
31 May 2011 Legends of Zork — legends of zork put the zork license in a browser tab and put a meter on it. you played a traveling salesman recently fired by frobozzco international
31 May 2011 Danger, Inc. — danger built a phone that could not think without a server, in 2000, back when that was a strange thing to want. the hiptop shipped in the us as the t
31 May 2011 Luxist — october 2004 to may 2011, mostly one writer, about objects almost nobody reading could afford. aol bought the blog network it lived in, then bought th
31 May 2011 Pixetell — ten dollars a month bought a screen recorder that could drop a narrated video of your own desktop inside an email, at a time when the alternative was
Jun 2011 MySpace (the real one) — the real myspace, before justin timberlake bought it and turned it into a music site. peak 2005 to 2008. your top 8 friends list was a public love let
1 Jun 2011 BarbieGirls.com — barbiegirls.com was mattel's online virtual world for young girls, opened on april 24 2007. three million players signed up in the first two months, w
Jun 2011 Amstrad E-m@iler — alan sugar built a telephone with a screen for people who did not want a computer. it launched in march 2000 at £79.99, below what it cost to build, a
1 Jun 2011 MyRealBox — novell needed somewhere to run new builds of its netmail mail server against real traffic, so from 1999 it handed out free accounts at myrealbox.com a
Jun 2011 Linux Gazette — john fisk started it in july 1995 and handed it to a publisher a year later, when he left for medical school. the motto he left behind was making linu
Jun 2011 LeapFish — a thousand dollars bought a merchant the top slot for a keyword, for life, on a search engine that was really three other search engines in a frame. e
3 Jun 2011 StarWars.com Forums — 444,520 messages sat in the cantina alone, and the cantina was one board out of roughly 193. lucasfilm opened the official star wars message boards on
8 Jun 2011 Kino.to — on 8 june 2011 police in four countries knocked on doors within the same hour and the largest german-language streaming site went dark before lunch. d
8 Jun 2011 GazoPa — hitachi put a content-based image search engine on the open web in september 2008 and let anyone draw a rough shape into the box to find pictures matc
10 Jun 2011 Salon Table Talk — one of the oldest conversation spaces on the web, born the same day salon.com was and modeled on the well. it ran threaded discussion for sixteen year
11 Jun 2011 twaud.io — on 11 june 2011 a two-year-old london side project turned off uploads and said users had a couple of months to download their own audio. playback went
13 Jun 2011 Kaos Studios — a free total-conversion mod that swapped the second world war for the gulf turned into a studio with a payroll. thq hired the desert combat team in ja
2011 Watwet — the last thing watwet ever served was a goodbye written twice, once in arabic and once in english, with a jordanian phone number under it. amman had b
14 Jun 2011 The Psycho Ex-Wife — judge diane gibbons told anthony morelli to take down that website from the bench in a bucks county custody hearing on 6 june 2011, and banned him fro
18 Jun 2011 SageTV — sagetv was the enthusiast end of the home-theater pc world in the early-2000s, a paid windows and linux app that ran your tuner card, scheduled record
20 Jun 2011 Arora — benjamin meyer built a browser out of the demo app that shipped with qt, gave it away under the gpl, and got it running on everything from haiku to os
21 Jun 2011 DVD Studio Pro — apple shipped dvd studio pro in 2001 after buying astarte's dvdirector code in 2000. it was the high-end disc authoring tool for hollywood. apple sold
21 Jun 2011 Final Cut Studio — for twelve years final cut was the editing suite hollywood used when it was not using avid. final cut pro 7 shipped in 2009 inside the fcs3 bundle at
21 Jun 2011 Final Cut Express — $299 bought you most of final cut pro with the professional formats taken back out. for eight years that was the honest middle of apple's video lineup
22 Jun 2011 QuteCom (WengoPhone) — a french voip operator paid for an open source softphone and then gave it away. wengophone shipped on 25 june 2005 under the gpl and spoke plain sip,
Jun 2011 Final Cut Server — final cut server was apple's media asset management server for post-production shops, descended from the artbox tool apple picked up in the 2006 proxi
30 Jun 2011 Resident Evil Outbreak — europe bought this game with the online half removed, which for something designed around four players in a collapsing city is close to selling an emp
30 Jun 2011 Apberget — seven kronor bought a picture of a ski slope, fifteen bought a sports car, and the bill arrived on somebody's parents' phone account. that was the bus
30 Jun 2011 TeraGrid — eleven american supercomputing centers spent seven years pretending to be one machine. the national science foundation paid roughly a quarter of a bil
30 Jun 2011 VMware Server — in july 2006 vmware took a server product that had cost money since 2001, renamed it and gave it away, because xen was arriving in linux and microsoft
30 Jun 2011 Holy Soap — a british broadcaster built a whole separate website for two australian soap operas, ran it for two years and five days, then closed it with a notice
Jun 2011 SearchYC — for three and a half years the only way to find an old hacker news thread was a site that y combinator had nothing to do with and would not link to. m
Jul 2011 Faves.com — faves was a social bookmarking service that launched as blue dot in june 2006 out of san francisco. mohit srivastava and sumit sen built it around a b
Jul 2011 Egg — egg opened on 11 october 1998 as prudential's attempt at a bank with no branches, and the launch rate was high enough that over six billion pounds of
Jul 2011 Intute — intute was the british academic web, cataloged by hand. eight subject gateways were merged into one service in july 2006, paid for by jisc, and every
Jul 2011 netLibrary — netlibrary sold libraries electronic books on the terms libraries already understood: one copy out on loan to one reader, with a clock on it. it raise
1 Jul 2011 FaceCash — sacramento killed this one. the california money transmission act of 2010 pulled mobile payment startups into a licensing regime written for wire-tran
2 Jul 2011 Google Real-Time Search — for eighteen months google search had a moving part. you typed a query and a column of tweets scrolled past in real time, updating while you sat there
5 Jul 2011 BackType — backtype indexed the conversation that happened away from the article, the blog comments and the tweets that linked to a url, and made it searchable b
6 Jul 2011 BIGADDA — bigadda was reliance anil dhirubhai ambani group's attempt at building an indian-language orkut competitor. it launched in august 2007 from mumbai und
7 Jul 2011 LugRadio — a linux user group in the west midlands started a fortnightly show in february 2004 and ended up running a conference that mark shuttleworth arrived a
12 Jul 2011 Microsoft Office XP — 31 may 2001, and the thing microsoft chose to advertise was a paperclip being switched off. office xp was the first version of office that phoned home
12 Jul 2011 Socialwok — sixteen days of notice, a disabled signup form and a letter that admits the funding ran out and the developers were no longer available. socialwok won
12 Jul 2011 Web Services Enhancements — microsoft shipped three versions of wse in three years, made none of them compatible with the last, then replaced the whole thing with wcf. the final
18 Jul 2011 Brentano's — a newsstand outside the new york hotel on broadway, opened in 1853 by an austrian immigrant named august brentano. that was the start of it. the books
20 Jul 2011 Apple Cinema Display — the Cinema Display was the external monitor Apple sold to the people who already owned a Power Mac. it started september 1999 as a 22-inch polycarbona
20 Jul 2011 Apple Front Row — for six years macs had a hidden party trick. press menu on the bundled apple remote and the screen would dim, the whoom animation would play, and a cl
20 Jul 2011 Apple iSync — isync was the mac's answer to a problem that died with the iphone. you plugged in a nokia or a palm or a sony ericsson over bluetooth, hit sync, and y
20 Jul 2011 Google Directory — google's copy of the open directory project, launched in march 2000 and reordered by pagerank rather than left in alphabetical order. sixteen top cate
20 Jul 2011 Google Image Swirl — a google labs experiment that took an image search and sorted the results by what the pictures actually looked like, then drew the groups as a cluster
20 Jul 2011 Google Labs — for nine years google kept a public page of things that were not products yet. autocomplete started there in december 2004 as an experiment nobody was
20 Jul 2011 GifBuilder — yves piguet gave it away, which in 1996 was how the good mac utilities tended to arrive. gifbuilder took a stack of images and wrote them out as one a
21 Jul 2011 Nabaztag — the wifi-connected rabbit. a small white plastic stationary rabbit that sat on your desk. it had moving ears, a glowing belly, a small speaker. it con
29 Jul 2011 Seattle PostGlobe — the seattle post-intelligencer printed its last paper on 17 march 2009, after 146 years. one of its reporters, kery murakami, put the postglobe up the
31 Jul 2011 TroopTube — in may 2007 the defense department blocked youtube and myspace on its own networks, then spent a year and a half working out that soldiers still wante
Aug 2011 Kyte.tv — kyte was a san francisco startup that built a mobile live-video platform when the iphone was still on its first generation. founded in 2006 by daniel
1 Aug 2011 eCRUSH — you registered and typed in the name of somebody you could not say it to in person, and ecrush emailed that person to tell them somebody had listed th
1 Aug 2011 Zediva — zediva rented movies the way a video store did, except the disc and the machine playing it stayed in a rack in santa clara and only the picture came t
Aug 2011 Baidu Guoxue — 140 million characters of classical chinese, spread over more than a hundred thousand pages, put online by a search company on 12 january 2006. baidu
Aug 2011 MyP2P — a registry status line did it: "this domain name has been registered and is on hold", pending the outcome of legal activity. myp2p was a dutch-run sch
2 Aug 2011 WalletPop — on 1 august 2011 walletpop.com served its own front page for the last time, and by the next morning the domain was answering with a redirect to dailyf
5 Aug 2011 Google Dictionary — a dictionary google ran at its own address for about twenty months. it came out of google translate, got a page of its own in december 2009, and was s
7 Aug 2011 Microsoft My Phone — barcelona, 16 february 2009: steve ballmer announced a free service that would copy everything on a windows mobile handset up to a web page you could
8 Aug 2011 Chobots — somebody got hold of a developer login sometime in 2010, the source tree leaked, and within a year the cheating was unfixable. the closing notice said
10 Aug 2011 Ribbit — ribbit was a silicon valley startup selling voice as a programmable developer feature. british telecom bought it in july 2008 for $105 million on the
10 Aug 2011 Blue Tongue Entertainment — blue tongue started in melbourne in 1995 doing web work and moved into games with an australian rules football title that reached number three on the
11 Aug 2011 Dell Streak — five inches was the wrong number in 2010 and the right number by 2013, and dell was holding it at the wrong end of that. the streak ran android 1.6 on
15 Aug 2011 Akoha — a montreal company spent three years trying to turn kindness into a scoring system with physical cards in the loop. you bought a deck, did what a card
17 Aug 2011 Jumo — 30 november 2010 to 17 august 2011, which is 260 days, and the most famous thing about jumo is who built it rather than anything it did. chris hughes
18 Aug 2011 HP TouchPad — hp paid $1.2 billion for palm in 2010 to get into tablets. the touchpad shipped in july 2011 and got discontinued 49 days later. the $99 fire-sale tha
18 Aug 2011 webOS — webos was palm's last attempt to compete with iphone and android. it launched in january 2009 with a card-based multitasking model and a gesture area
18 Aug 2011 Palm Pre — the palm pre launched on sprint on june 6 2009 as the showpiece for palm's new webos operating system. the slide-out portrait keyboard on a pebble-sha
19 Aug 2011 ウルトラジャンプエッグ — nothing was kept. ultra jump egg put new manga up on the nineteenth of every month from march 2008, ran it through a flash viewer in the browser, and
20 Aug 2011 Revver — revver invented the youtube deal before youtube did, then lost the audience because the acquirer stopped honoring it. the model was simple: pre-roll a
22 Aug 2011 Baidu Shuoba — you could not write a word on it without handing baidu a mobile number and a national id that had to match the public security ministry's database. th
23 Aug 2011 Facebook Places — august 2010 was the month facebook decided check-ins were a product. places shipped in the united states with its own tab and a here now list showing
26 Aug 2011 Facebook Deals — facebook announced a local-coupons pilot at its palo alto office on 3 november 2010 and launched a full groupon competitor on 25 april 2011 in five am
29 Aug 2011 Walmart Music Downloads — eighty-eight cents was the entire pitch. walmart opened its download store in beta in december 2003 and properly on 23 march 2004, selling drm-locked
31 Aug 2011 Sony Qriocity — qriocity was sony's umbrella brand for cloud video and music on ps3 and bravia, launched in the us in april 2010 as video on demand powered by qriocit
31 Aug 2011 Zoome — zoome was japan's second-largest video-sharing site through the late 2000s, sitting behind niconico as the smaller alternative with cleaner h.264 uplo
1 Sep 2011 Mobsters (Playdom) — mobsters was a click-driven mafia game playdom shipped on myspace in july 2008. the title hit 13.5 million installs across myspace and reached the top
Sep 2011 Google Fast Flip — fast flip took the front pages of real newspapers and shrank them into images you could riffle through with a click, grouped by topic. google labs sho
Sep 2011 ApexKB — steve perry wrote it while working as a data integration consultant, and shipped it as a php script anybody could install on their own server. jumper
Sep 2011 Aardvark — aardvark was the search engine that routed your question to whichever friend in your network might actually know the answer. google bought it in febru
2 Sep 2011 Black Rock Studio — brighton racing-game studio that started as pixel planet in 1998, became climax brighton under the climax group in 1999, climax racing in 2004, then b
5 Sep 2011 Google Squared — google squared was announced on 12 may 2009, three days before wolfram alpha went live, and landed on google labs that june. you typed a category and
5 Sep 2011 Google Sets — 2002, and the entire interface was a column of empty boxes. you put honda in one and toyota in the next, pressed the button, and google handed back a
9 Sep 2011 EveryDNS — december 2, 2010, ten at night eastern time, is when most people heard the name. everydns had given wikileaks.org its 24 hours and then pulled the rec
14 Sep 2011 Google Desktop — google desktop was google's attempt to index the inside of your computer the way it had already indexed the outside. it shipped in october 2004 as a f
14 Sep 2011 Google Pack — google's curated installer for windows. one download with a single updater managing a dozen free apps that the average new-pc owner needed. announced
15 Sep 2011 Map24 — map24 was a european web mapping service run out of germany by mapsolute gmbh from 2001. peak reach of 150 million monthly page views and five million
15 Sep 2011 Asda Story — mgame set 15 march 2011 as the closing date and the players would not accept it, so the company kept the servers running with the cash shop switched o
16 Sep 2011 Google PowerMeter — powermeter drew a line graph of the electricity leaving your fuse box, updated close to real time, on the theory that people shown their own consumpti
16 Sep 2011 Google Image Labeler — a browser game google launched on 31 august 2006, built on the esp game that luis von ahn had designed at carnegie mellon. it put you and an anonymous
16 Sep 2011 PopEater — aol bought the huffington post in march 2011 and arianna huffington got to decide which of the overlapping brands lived. popeater was aol's celebrity
16 Sep 2011 DIY Life — aol paid $315 million for the huffington post in february 2011 and spent the rest of that year deciding which of its own blogs would still exist. diy
18 Sep 2011 Borders — borders started as a single used-book shop in ann arbor in 1971 and grew into the world's second-largest bookstore chain over the next thirty years. a
20 Sep 2011 DigiNotar — a dutch notary's office spent thirteen years selling the promise that a website was who it said it was, and ended up holding the certificates behind t
23 Sep 2011 National Semiconductor — danbury, connecticut, may 1959, which is not where anybody remembers this company being. it moved west and took charlie sporck off fairchild's payroll
26 Sep 2011 Sezmi — sezmi was a box that pulled free over-the-air television in through a smart antenna and recorded it onto a terabyte drive, with internet video mixed i
27 Sep 2011 MeeGo — meego was a linux mobile operating system that nokia and intel announced together at mobile world congress on february 15 2010 by merging maemo and mo
1 Oct 2011 Windows Live Gallery — for five years microsoft ran a free shelf of small things you could bolt onto windows and onto messenger. desktop gadgets for the vista sidebar, toolb
3 Oct 2011 Global Crossing — founded march 1997 by gary winnick, a former drexel burnham bond trader who decided telecom was the next bond market. global crossing laid roughly 100
3 Oct 2011 Yahoo! Days — february 2006: yahoo japan launched the american yahoo 360 under its own roof, then ran a public contest to give it a japanese name and came out of it
3 Oct 2011 Autonomy Corporation — cambridge, june 1996: two people and a piece of bayesian inference wrapped into a product that could read documents nobody had bothered to structure.
5 Oct 2011 Team Bondi — team bondi made one game in seven years and it was good. l.a. noire came out in may 2011 with facial capture nobody had seen before, sold well, and go
10 Oct 2011 Qwikster — netflix split its dvd-by-mail business out under a new name on september 18, 2011, gave it a separate website and a separate bill, and announced it in
10 Oct 2011 MXTabs — mxtabs started as a hobby drum tablature page in 1999 and grew into an archive of more than 150,000 user-written tabs. in december 2005 the music publ
14 Oct 2011 Like.com — like.com was riya's computer vision pointed at shopping instead of at faces. you gave it a picture of a handbag and it gave you back other handbags wi
14 Oct 2011 Weardrobe — suzanne xie and rich tong worked out in 2004 that there was no software for organizing your own clothes, and four years later they had a community of
15 Oct 2011 MySpace China — myspace china, known locally as 聚友网, was news corp's attempt to plant myspace in the one market it most wanted and least understood. it launched in ap
Oct 2011 Apple iDVD — idvd was the consumer half of apple's optical-drive era. you imported imovie footage and picked one of the painfully designed motion-menu themes to sp
28 Oct 2011 SeeSaw — seesaw was assembled out of the parts of project kangaroo, the joint catch-up service bbc worldwide and channel 4 had been building with itv until the
31 Oct 2011 Minna no Theater Wii — fujitsu software built a video rental shop and shipped it as a wiiware channel, which made it the first video-on-demand service the wii ever carried i
1 Nov 2011 DoylesRoom — an online poker room that rented doyle brunson's name from 2004 and then spent seven years being evicted from one network to the next as each of them
Nov 2011 Geomium — london, september 2010. ben dowling and michael fergusson launched an iphone app that refused the thing everyone else in location was doing: no badges
Nov 2011 It Died — glenn fleishman spent fifteen months writing down the closing dates of other people's web services, then stopped in february 2010 and let the registra
Nov 2011 Threadsy — rob goldman's pitch at techcrunch50 in september 2009 was that your messages should arrive in one place regardless of which company carried them. two
2 Nov 2011 BuyWithMe — buywithme ran the groupon mechanic seven months behind groupon: one discount a day in one city, unlocked once enough people bought in. it raised thirt
3 Nov 2011 WooMe — woome launched on stage at the first techcrunch40 in september 2007 with a clean idea: speed dating, but the sessions run in your browser over webcam.
Nov 2011 Logitech Revue — logitech bet on a set-top box that would put the open web on the living-room tv. the open web's tv networks decided no. by the time the revue dropped
13 Nov 2011 Anonplus — anonplus was the social network that anonymous announced after google+ banned their accounts. it lasted about three weeks as a public site before two
Nov 2011 Adobe Flex SDK — flex was macromedia's rich internet application framework, an xml dialect called mxml that compiled into a flash swf with actionscript behind it. adob
16 Nov 2011 Apache Harmony — an apache project that rebuilt java from scratch under a license anybody could use, and then could not get hold of the test suite that would have let
16 Nov 2011 The Minnesota Independent — a letter from david bennahum on 16 november 2011 told minnesota readers that the network funding their statehouse newsroom would be publishing out of
17 Nov 2011 Webplanet — denis kryuchkov left the paper he founded in 2006 and built habrahabr. his deputy editor yuri sinodov left in 2007 and built roem.ru. both of the russ
18 Nov 2011 AnyHub — a student in melbourne ran a file host that was holding 1,122,585 files and 2.81 terabytes on the day he announced it was closing, 18 november 2011. a
21 Nov 2011 Yahoo! Site Explorer — site explorer was the public window into yahoo's web index. for any url you typed in, you got the list of pages on that domain plus the list of backli
25 Nov 2011 Critical Metrics — joey anuff co-founded suck.com in 1995 and then spent 2007 building the opposite of a popularity contest. critical metrics read over 150 music publica
28 Nov 2011 TGcom — mediaset's news website, live from 8 march 2001 and run for its last eight years by paolo liguori. it never had a print edition and it was never only
Nov 2011 JooJoo — joojoo was the tablet that came out of the crunchpad implosion. michael arrington had pitched a $200 web tablet on techcrunch in 2008. his hardware pa
30 Nov 2011 Upoc — in 1999 four people in new york built a way to text a group instead of a person. the groups that formed were fan clubs and celebrity-sighting networks
Dec 2011 Snaptu — snaptu was a free app platform for feature phones, the cheap handsets that could not run real apps of their own. the trick was that the apps did not r
Dec 2011 Beatnik — thomas dolby founded headspace in 1993 because there was no decent way to put sound on a screen that was not a cd. what came out of it was rmf, a form
1 Dec 2011 Afrigator — afrigator was a directory and a traffic ranking for the african blogosphere, built in johannesburg in april 2007 and majority-bought by naspers eighte
1 Dec 2011 360networks — a canadian construction family worked out that the hard part of building a fiber network was not the fiber, it was permission to dig. so they made a d
Dec 2011 StyleFeeder — philip jacob started it in january 2005 out of a consultancy in the boston area and opened it to the public on 16 october that year. stylefeeder let y
Dec 2011 PocoMail — shareware was a business model before it became a memory, and this was one of the last ones that worked. pocomail shipped in 1999 out of poco systems
Dec 2011 Teleplace — alan kay's croquet research went commercial in 2007, when a palo alto startup called qwaq shipped it as an office you walked around in instead of dial
Dec 2011 SecFinex — nyse euronext closed secfinex in december 2011 while saying it still believed central counterparty clearing would matter in stock lending one day. the
5 Dec 2011 GamePro (print) — the other big multi-platform us gaming print magazine of the genesis-snes generation. first issue april 1989, founded by patrick ferrell and leeanne m
5 Dec 2011 Google Sidewiki — google sidewiki launched on 23 september 2009 as a browser-toolbar feature that opened a sidebar next to any web page and let visitors leave comments
7 Dec 2011 Blogsome — blogsome gave away hosted wordpress blogs on yourname.blogsome.com from 2004, which was a year before wordpress.com opened, and its front page was a j
Dec 2011 Ecocho — eight days after launch, google terminated the account that paid for the trees. ecocho had promised two of them for every thousand searches, which is
8 Dec 2011 Logic Express — the mac app store killed this one with a price. logic express existed because logic pro cost $499 in a box and garageband came free with the mac, and
14 Dec 2011 BOLT Browser — a mobile browser built by a font company. bolt did not render pages on your handset, it rendered them on bitstream's servers and sent down a compresse
15 Dec 2011 Beluga — beluga was a december 2010 ex-googler side project that became the codebase facebook used to launch facebook messenger eight months later. lucy zhang,
15 Dec 2011 Google Buzz — google's first attempt at a social network. launched inside gmail in february 2010. it auto-followed the people you emailed most, and made that follow
15 Dec 2011 Star Wars Galaxies — star wars galaxies launched june 26, 2003. it was developed by sony online entertainment and published by lucasarts. the original pre-cu game had a de
15 Dec 2011 Thoora — two years of private beta bought thoora thirteen weeks of public life. the toronto company unveiled a real-time news discovery service at techcrunch50
19 Dec 2011 Saab Automobile — general motors owned the intellectual property underneath the cars and would not let it cross to a chinese buyer, which is the short version of why tr
19 Dec 2011 Russian Trading System — moscow ran two stock exchanges against each other for sixteen years, one quoting in rubles and one quoting in dollars. on 19 december 2011 the opening
20 Dec 2011 Apture — three founders built a layer that sat above a publisher's page, so that a link could open a video or a definition without taking you anywhere else. th
21 Dec 2011 280 Slides — motorola paid twenty million dollars in august 2010 for three people who had rebuilt apple's cocoa framework in javascript, and the presentation app w
27 Dec 2011 AOL Video — two acquisitions and a television library went into this thing and none of them saved it. aol bought truveo in january 2006 for the crawler and had al
28 Dec 2011 PostSecret App — two million secrets came through it in under four months, and roughly one in a hundred of them was something a volunteer moderator had to delete at fo
30 Dec 2011 Beyond Oblivion — eighty seven million dollars, on the press numbers, went into a cloud music service called boinc that nobody outside the company ever used. the plan w
2011 Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint — microsoft producer was a free add-in for powerpoint that let you capture webcam video alongside microphone narration synced to slide timings, then pub
2011 Microsoft Tablet PC — bill gates demoed the tablet pc concept at fall comdex in november 2001 as a stylus-driven windows laptop. windows xp tablet pc edition shipped on nov
2011 Jaman — jaman was a proto-netflix for foreign films. gaurav dhillon, fresh off co-founding informatica, put together a curated catalog of independent and inte
31 Dec 2011 Kerio Personal Firewall — kerio personal firewall was the small czech program that sat in the windows tray and asked whether the executable it had just caught was allowed to re
Dec 2011 Vodafone 360 — in 2009 vodafone decided the phone book should belong to the network. 360 pulled your contacts out of facebook and windows live into a single list on
31 Dec 2011 ExerciseTV — comcast and the trainer jake steinfeld built a fitness channel that lived inside the video on demand menu of an american cable box. the workouts were
31 Dec 2011 MusicStation — £1.99 a week on your phone bill bought unlimited music downloaded straight onto an ordinary handset over the mobile network, with no computer and no c
31 Dec 2011 SteekR — bordeaux, 2002: three founders spent the first two years on research and then built the business around telecom operators, who put their own brand nam

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