Death Anniversaries, 2012

every grave in this cemetery, by year of death. this page covers 2012.

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1 Jan 2012 Microsoft SPOT Watch — the spot watch was microsoft's first try at a smartwatch, four years before the iphone existed and almost a decade before the apple watch. bill gates
2012 Sony Bloggie — the bloggie was sony's pocket-camcorder answer to the flip video, launched as the webbie hd in 2008 and rebranded at ces 2010. the line had three year
1 Jan 2012 Google Health — google health let you store medical records in a google account and share them with hospitals or pharmacies that had api hooks. it ran from '08 to '12
2012 Modern Tales — modern tales was the webcomics subscription joey manley launched on march 2 2002 with a roster of around 30 professional cartoonists. the pricing was
2012 Babelgum — babelgum was a 2007 italian internet tv platform funded by silvio scaglia, who put around fifty million euros of his own money into the project. it ra
2012 Imbee — imbee was the chaperoned-sn experiment for kids 8 to 14, built so parents could approve every connection. january 2008 it settled a 130,000 dollar fed
2012 Jamba! / Jamster — jamba (jamster in the english-speaking markets) was the berlin ringtone company that turned crazy frog into a billboard-charting single in 2005 and ho
2012 O2 Active — o2 active was the mobile portal that o2 uk (plus ireland germany and the netherlands) put on the front page of every wap-capable phone from 2002 to ab
2012 Orange World — orange world was france telecom's carrier portal, launched october 2003 as a revamped wap homepage for orange-branded handsets across france the uk po
1 Jan 2012 MSN Direct — msn direct was microsoft's attempt at ambient wireless data over the fm radio band. bill gates announced it at comdex 2002 and hardware shipped in 200
2012 Ecademy — the uk's first social network for business, built by penny and thomas power in 1998, four years ahead of linkedin. it ran as a paid membership club an
2012 Guruji.com — guruji.com was an indian search engine built to understand india better than google did, funded by sequoia and sandstone and started by two iit delhi
2012 Vitaminic — vitaminic tried to build a legal music download business in europe while the rest of us were downloading music for free. founded in italy in 1999, it
2012 S3 Graphics — s3 spent the mid-1990s as the graphics chip almost nobody chose, because it came in whatever machine the shop had put together. by 1996 it held about
2012 Kangurum — migros started selling groceries over the web in 1997, and by 2000 decided the thing to be was a mall rather than a shop. kangurum opened on 24 februa
2012 MeBeam — ashod apakian put mebeam up in november 2007 and the whole product was one idea: a video chat room that existed as soon as you typed a name after the
2012 Akella — akella was a moscow publisher named after the wolf that leads the pack in kipling's jungle book, founded in 1995 and grown into five development teams
2012 YouHaveDownloaded — three developers put a site online in december 2011 that did one thing. you gave it an ip address and it told you which torrents that address had been
2012 Aport — before yandex won, russia had three serious search engines and aport was one of them. it came out of a software company called agama, launched properl
2012 FindArticles — a joint venture between looksmart's search technology and the gale group's licensed archive, put online in 2000 and free to read. by 2007 it reached a
2012 New.net — new.net sold names in about two dozen top level domains that icann had never approved, .shop and .mp3 among them. the catch was that nobody could reac
2012 Trexy — a london browser plugin that sat on top of more than 3,000 search engines and recorded where your searching actually went, built from early 2006 by th
Jan 2012 Myartspace — an online gallery and social network for working artists, incorporated by catherine mccormack-skiba in 2005 and opened to the public in may 2006. it g
2012 Rollyo — rollyo let you name up to twenty five sites you trusted and search only those, which in 2005 read as the correction the web needed. dave pell built it
2012 Azbuz — doğan online and a small development shop called over team put it up in may 2006. you signed up and got a free page at your-name.azbuz.com with a phot
2012 Stanza — stanza was on the app store before amazon's own reader was, it read every format that mattered including the ones amazon did not sell, and it pulled b
2012 ScientificMatch.com — nineteen hundred and ninety five dollars, and a cotton swab in the post. eric holzle was a mechanical engineer who had read the immune-gene attraction
Jan 2012 Cinematical — april 2011 emptied the masthead. the editor in chief resigned on the 5th and the freelance budget went the day after. aol kept the brand up anyway: th
2012 kgb 542542 — on 5 january 2009 a short code opened in the united states where ninety-nine cents bought you a written answer to any question you could fit in a text
2012 AOL Seed — five hundred freelancers interviewed roughly two thousand bands at south by southwest in march 2010, and that was seed doing exactly what it had been
2012 Pravkniga.ru — two moscow publishing houses spent six years building a bibliography nobody was paying them to build: every orthodox book printed in russia across two
Jan 2012 Trunk.ly — avos systems bought trunk.ly on 9 november 2011 and gave it two months to die. the australian service had spent its whole run doing the thing deliciou
2012 Trackle — two healtheon veterans in sunnyvale took money from nea in 2008 and built standing alerts for the web: tracklets, saved agents that watched a craigsli
2012 ffdshow — in may 2002 milan cutka published a decoder that sat underneath whatever player you already had. ffdshow played nothing itself. it registered with win
2012 NoseRub — a german developer named dirk olbertz spent five years writing a federated social network in php and mysql, released it under the mit license, and got
1 Jan 2012 sones GraphDB — a tranche from the second funding round never arrived, and that was the whole story. the managing directors filed at the leipzig district court for im
2012 Yebol — hongfeng yin left yahoo with the idea that a search result should look like a homepage for its subject rather than a list of ten links, and yebol open
2012 SoftHome — you will not have to change your address ever again, not even when you change isps. that sentence sat in softhome.net's page description from 1996 onw
2 Jan 2012 HiGear — four cars, taken by a criminal ring with stolen identities and stolen credit cards, ended a company six months after it launched. higear rented out ot
4 Jan 2012 Trident Microsystems — a cheap pc in 1994 came with a graphics chip nobody had asked for, and more often than not the writing on it said trident. the company sold slow svga
5 Jan 2012 Word Count Journal — one word on your first day and two on your second gets you to 66,795 by the end of a non-leap year, more words than most novels, and that arithmetic w
5 Jan 2012 Scitopia — twenty-one learned societies agreed to let one search box look inside all of their libraries at once, which took more diplomacy than engineering. the
9 Jan 2012 Fallout Online — $5,750,000 bought bethesda the fallout intellectual property in april 2007, and the one thing it did not buy was the right to turn the series into an
12 Jan 2012 Crazyracing AirRider — nexon opened the beta on 21 july 2009 and shipped its last update three months after that. the flying sequel to kartrider then sat on live servers, un
15 Jan 2012 Jaiku — jaiku launched a month before twitter, did the same thing with more features, sold to google in october 2007, then sat inside google for four years no
15 Jan 2012 Google Code Search — russ cox built the engine underneath it, a trigram index feeding a regular expression matcher that could not be made to hang, and google put it in lab
15 Jan 2012 National Biological Information Infrastructure — a 1993 national research council report asked for one front door to everything the united states knew about its own living things. the door got built
16 Jan 2012 LEGO Design byME — lego let you design your own set in a free cad program, upload it, put your own picture on the box, and receive the exact bricks in the mail. it ran f
18 Jan 2012 Amaya — the w3c built its own browser and made it an editor too, because the first browser tim berners-lee wrote had been one and the web had quietly lost tha
19 Jan 2012 Megaupload — the cyberlocker that put a file behind a single download link, charged for premium speed, paid uploaders for popular files, and swallowed the global p
22 Jan 2012 FileSonic — a top-ten cyberlocker that pulled its own teeth on 22 january 2012, the weekend the megaupload founders got arrested in new zealand. users could still
22 Jan 2012 Plancast — a social network pointed at the future instead of the past: you posted plans you meant to keep and friends said they were in. a small tech-early-adopt
23 Jan 2012 BlogPulse — blogpulse was an automated blog search engine and trend analytics service built by intelliseek around 2004, acquired by nielsen buzzmetrics in 2006 an
27 Jan 2012 Meteor Games — adam and donna powell sold neopets to viacom for $160 million in 2005 and started meteor games two years later in beverly hills, with ninety or so peo
31 Jan 2012 LEGO Universe — lego universe was lego group's subscription mmo for nine to twelve year olds, developed by netdevil and shipped on october 26, 2010. by november 2011
31 Jan 2012 Splinder — italian internet had its own blogging layer for a decade. splinder was the place where people who wrote in italian put their posts before wordpress.co
Jan 2012 Pageflakes — pageflakes opened in late 2005 as an ajax personal start page where each widget was called a flake. it sat in the same category as netvibes and igoogl
Feb 2012 Cybertown — cybertown was the 3d web before the 3d web stopped being a serious idea. you installed a vrml plugin, you logged into colony city, and a chunky 3d ava
1 Feb 2012 TwitterPeek — peek inc launched the original email-only peek in 2008 to surprisingly warm reviews. the twitterpeek arrived in november 2009 at 100 dollars with six
1 Feb 2012 Peek — peek was a small orange handheld that only did email. it cost 99 dollars on an at&t data plan and won time magazine's gadget of the year in 2008. the
Feb 2012 Muxlim — muxlim was a muslim lifestyle social network built in helsinki, aimed mostly at muslims living as a minority in the west. it claimed users across arou
Feb 2012 Multiupload — multiupload took one file off your disk and pushed it to a row of cyberlockers at the same time, then handed back a single page listing every copy, so
Feb 2012 Neogen.ro — romania got a home-grown social network and kept it for a decade. neogen ran out of târgu mureș, absorbed the country's school-reunion site and its da
Feb 2012 Truveo — truveo built a crawler that could see video the ordinary web spiders walked straight past, which in 2005 was a real problem worth fifty million dollar
Feb 2012 CoTweet — in 2008 "running the company twitter account" was a job that had just been invented and had no tooling behind it. cotweet built the tooling: one dashb
Feb 2012 E24.se — svenska dagbladet and aftonbladet were rivals who happened to share an owner, and in october 2005 schibsted had them staff a business news site togeth
Feb 2012 QuickSilverScreen — the megaupload raid landed on 19 january 2012, and quicksilverscreen was not named in it. that did not matter. the site had passed through several own
Feb 2012 alpha.gov.uk — twelve weeks and 261 thousand pounds bought the british government a working prototype of one website in place of hundreds. it took more than 100,000
3 Feb 2012 Malév Hungarian Airlines — budapest woke up on 3 february 2012 without a flag carrier. four weeks earlier the european commission had ruled that every rescue hungary pushed into
6 Feb 2012 BTjunkie — btjunkie was a top-five torrent search engine through most of the late 2000s, with a clean index, an active community, and a single anonymous operator
7 Feb 2012 iLike — hadi and ali partovi launch a music recommendation app in october 2006 with an itunes sidebar that suggests songs based on what you played. they port
9 Feb 2012 Earthrise — 4 february 2011 to 9 february 2012. masthead studios in sofia spent years on a skill-based post-apocalyptic mmo with open pvp and a player-run economy
9 Feb 2012 Kodak EasyShare — chapter 11 on 19 january 2012, and three weeks later kodak announced it was leaving the camera business entirely. easyshare had started in 2001 with t
11 Feb 2012 Moxi DVR — kirkland, washington, 1999: paul allen started a set-top company, and down in palo alto steve perlman started another one in secret. digeo bought moxi
15 Feb 2012 Library.nu — library.nu was the academic wing of file sharing, four hundred thousand books deep, most of them priced for a university library budget rather than fo
15 Feb 2012 TeachStreet — seattle, april 2008: dave schappell opened a site where you could find a local class and where the person teaching it could run their listings without
16 Feb 2012 Sony Ericsson — sony ericsson had its turkish moment around 2005-2008. the k750i with the sliding lens cover was the phone people put on the table at the cafe; the w8
Feb 2012 Be-Bratz.com — the login was a plastic necklace. mga entertainment shipped it inside three bratz dolls at $29.99 in august 2007, and plugging it into a usb port was
20 Feb 2012 The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition — one hundred and forty six days is the entire shelf life of a zelda game. nintendo put four swords anniversary edition on dsiware at a price of zero fo
21 Feb 2012 Scroogle — scroogle sat between you and google. it ran your search from its own servers and handed the results back on a plain page with the ads taken out, setti
Feb 2012 Betavine — vodafone built a developer community and vodafone quietly absorbed it. betavine launched in 2007 out of the group's research arm, hosted alpha and bet
Feb 2012 Rotten.com — the original 1996 shock site. it ran for sixteen years from a single-word domain that soylent communications grabbed with a script. the final post lan
1 Mar 2012 Google Friend Connect — google friend connect was google's pre-google-plus attempt to put a portable social layer on any website. you copied a snippet of javascript into your
Mar 2012 Opera Unite — opera unite was your browser as a webserver. you opened opera and flipped a switch, then other people could connect to your laptop to download a file
Mar 2012 coComment — cocomment was a bookmarklet plus a hosted dashboard. you commented on any blog or news site, it logged the thread, then it pinged you when someone rep
Mar 2012 Clipmarks — clipmarks was a new york tool from 2005 that let you clip a piece of a web page, a paragraph or a photo, and keep or share just that, years before eve
Mar 2012 CiaoWeb — a car company decided italy needed its own yahoo and put two hundred billion lire behind the idea. the portal launched eight days before the millenniu
1 Mar 2012 Hudson Soft — hudson started as an amateur radio shop in sapporo in 1973, run by two brothers who named it after a steam locomotive. it became the first company nin
1 Mar 2012 Ecast — a san francisco company that connected the jukebox in the corner of the bar to a broadband network, so the machine could pull any track in a central c
1 Mar 2012 Solvate — $6.3 million went into a freelance marketplace that lasted about thirty months. solvate launched in 2009 out of new york with a model that sat between
Mar 2012 Bluu — one man in hungary spent three years writing his own web index because the search engines of the day were not much help with his work. bluu opened to
3 Mar 2012 Continental Airlines — on paper continental is the airline that survived. the merged company kept its operating certificate and its legal incorporation, then painted united'
6 Mar 2012 Slide.com — slide built slideshow widgets and superpoke for myspace and facebook profiles. google bought it in 2010 for $182m and closed it a year later. the widg
11 Mar 2012 Gowalla — gowalla was the foursquare alternative for people who cared about how their check-in app looked. illustrated passport pages with custom badges drawn b
12 Mar 2012 Togetherville — togetherville was a social network for kids under 13 with the parent acting as gatekeeper. disney bought it in february 2011 and shelved it about a ye
12 Mar 2012 Nokia Money — nokia money was nokia's mobile-payments push into unbanked emerging markets, launched in india in august 2009 as a partnership with obopay (nokia was
13 Mar 2012 Encyclopædia Britannica (print) — the english-speaking world's reference set for two and a half centuries. first fascicle published in edinburgh in 1768. the 2010 fifteenth-edition set
27 Mar 2012 BNET — march 2012 is when the masthead changed. cnet networks had launched bnet in 2007 as a trade magazine for people who manage other people, and for about
28 Mar 2012 Urchin — two people running a small san diego hosting company in the late nineties needed to bill customers by bandwidth, so one of them wrote a program to add
29 Mar 2012 EverQuest Online Adventures — everquest online adventures was the playstation 2 mmo that did not need a hard drive. sony online entertainment launched it on 11 february 2003 to giv
29 Mar 2012 Infantry Online — infantry online was a top-down team shooter drawn in sprites, split into dozens of separate zones that each played by their own rules. harmless games
29 Mar 2012 Cosmic Rift — cosmic rift was sony's top-down two-dimensional space shooter, built by jeff petersen, who had written subspace at virgin interactive four years earli
29 Mar 2012 Zipper Interactive — sony closed it on 29 march 2012 and gave the reason as resource re-alignment, which is a phrase that means a spreadsheet. the redmond studio had spent
30 Mar 2012 少年タケシ — for thirteen and a half years a japanese television network published free flash comics on its own corporate website, three times a week without missi
31 Mar 2012 Brizzly — brizzly was the web-based twitter client built by the google reader team after they left google. AOL bought the parent company thing labs in 2010 for
31 Mar 2012 Personal Digital Cellular — japan wrote its own 2g standard in april 1991 and switched it on in march 1993, and at its height it carried nearly eighty million people. the radio d
31 Mar 2012 SimpleGeo — ten million dollars in, three and a half million dollars out, and the product gone within five months of the signature. simplegeo sold developers a ho
Apr 2012 Brightkite — brightkite was the second wave of check-in apps, the one that came after dodgeball and before foursquare won. you texted your location, the app showed
1 Apr 2012 FileServe — fileserve was one of a dozen one-click hosters that all looked the same, a countdown timer and a premium wall standing between you and a file. it paid
Apr 2012 Wupload — a file host that paid you to fill it. forty dollars for every thousand downloads, no questions asked about the file. that reward economy built the cyb
Apr 2012 Cramster — cramster sold the answers. not the odd-numbered ones printed in the back of the book, all of them, worked through step by step, for a monthly fee. it
Apr 2012 Revolution Health — steve case put more than two hundred million dollars of his own money and his friends' money into a free health website meant to take webmd's audience
Apr 2012 The Farmer's Market — the farmer's market sold drugs online for six years before bitcoin was a usable currency, which meant every order it filled left a receipt somewhere.
Apr 2012 Shareware.com — a civil engineering professor at the university of ljubljana built an index of every shareware archive he could reach, and it got popular enough to ov
Apr 2012 Writeboard — chicago, october 2005: 37signals shipped a writing tool with no signup screen. you set a password and mailed the url to whoever needed to read it, and
Apr 2012 zSHARE — on january 19, 2012 the us government seized megaupload, and for about two weeks every other cyberlocker on the internet looked like the winner. zshar
1 Apr 2012 Sanyo — 1947, osaka. toshio iue borrowed a disused matsushita plant from his brother-in-law and started building bicycle lamps. by 2003 the company was turnin
1 Apr 2012 Sepia Mutiny — from july 2004 to april 2012 a rotating group of second-generation south asian americans ran the loudest desi group blog on the english-language web,
2 Apr 2012 Girls Around Me — girls around me was a russian ios app that pulled foursquare check-ins and facebook profiles into a live map of women in your immediate area. it did n
2 Apr 2012 htmlGEAR — lycos launched htmlgear in may 2000 as five free widgets you could paste into any page on any host, and the guestbook is the one that mattered. it gav
3 Apr 2012 Nature Precedings — in june 2007 nature publishing group opened a place where biologists could post work before anyone had reviewed it. physics had had exactly that since
4 Apr 2012 WeiweiCam — forty six hours is the entire run. ai weiwei installed four webcams in his beijing house on the first anniversary of his detention, aimed one of them
5 Apr 2012 Buzz Out Loud — tom merritt and molly wood promised five or so minutes of tech news every second day when they started in march 2005. it became forty minutes every we
10 Apr 2012 Qore — from june 2008 sony sold a monthly video magazine on the north american playstation store, made by future publishing and hosted by veronica belmont an
13 Apr 2012 EA Sports MMA — dana white told fighters that anyone who did business with ea would not be in the ufc, and that threat shaped this game before a single copy shipped.
Apr 2012 BlogScope — fifty-seven million blogs and 1.3 billion posts sat on four sun servers in a computer science department in toronto. blogscope searched them and then
18 Apr 2012 LibertySurf — an internet account that cost nothing to open, because the money came off your phone bill instead. kingfisher and bernard arnault's internet holding p
18 Apr 2012 2xMoinsCher — a french marketplace for used goods that solved the trust problem with a bank account instead of a reputation score. you paid the site rather than the
19 Apr 2012 Picnik — the in-browser flash photo editor that opened any jpeg in fifteen seconds and let you crop, color-correct, add a faux-polaroid frame, and save it back
19 Apr 2012 Is Anyone Up? — is anyone up ran for about eighteen months on one cruel format. somebody submitted a naked photograph of a person they knew, and the site published it
20 Apr 2012 Google One Pass — apple announced app store subscriptions on 15 february 2011 and kept thirty percent. the next morning eric schmidt stood up at humboldt university in
23 Apr 2012 Adobe Flash Catalyst — adobe took an illustrator artboard and turned it into a flex prototype the developer could use. that was the pitch. it shipped in cs5 in april 2010 as
23 Apr 2012 Adobe Device Central — device central was the window in creative suite where you found out how your work looked on a phone. it carried profiles for hundreds of handsets, the
23 Apr 2012 Adobe OnLocation — tapeless cameras killed this one, and adobe wrote the cause of death into its own end-of-life notice: the industry had moved to native, card-based wor
24 Apr 2012 Fwix — darian shirazi had been facebook's first intern, and he left to build a news site for every city at once. fwix raised 6.75 million dollars and sold it
27 Apr 2012 MP3tunes — michael robertson built a legal-in-his-reading music locker in 2005 and spent seven years being sued into liquidation by emi. the locker worked. the s
30 Apr 2012 FortuneCity — fortunecity launched in 1997 as the british answer to geocities and angelfire, organized around themed cities you picked for your homepage. richard jo
30 Apr 2012 Google Wave — Google's attempt at "email if it had been invented today." it was email plus chat plus collaborative document, all merged into one ui. it confused eve
Apr 2012 Joost — joost was niklas zennström and janus friis's third act, after kazaa and skype: a desktop p2p television client that streamed mtv and viacom-tier shows
30 Apr 2012 Knol — knol was google's attempt to build wikipedia by paying experts to write under their real names instead of letting strangers edit collaboratively. it l
30 Apr 2012 Microsoft Office Live Small Business — microsoft office live small business was the free version of office that microsoft handed out to mom-and-pop companies between november 2007 and april
30 Apr 2012 Wii no Ma — nintendo and the biggest advertising agency in japan built a television channel inside the wii, and instead of a menu they drew a living room. your fa
30 Apr 2012 Jumpgate: The Reconstruction Initiative — three coworkers started it as a side project in 1996 and there were five people left on it by the time it shipped in 2001. jumpgate asked you to fly a
1 May 2012 Microsoft TerraServer — terraserver launched june 24, 1998 as a research-microsoft project led by jim gray and tom barclay, conceived as a public stress test of sql server ho
1 May 2012 PostRank — postrank was a social-engagement analytics service that scored blog posts by how much chatter they generated across twitter, digg, facebook, delicious
1 May 2012 AOL Latino — aol latino was the spanish-language portal aol launched on october 1 2003 for the us hispanic audience. the service bundled a localized aol experience
May 2012 Motorola Xoom — google's chosen flagship for android 3.0 honeycomb, the first android version built specifically for tablets. 10.1 inch screen, $799 on verizon 3G at
May 2012 Zoombu — zoombu was a UK door-to-door travel search engine that let you enter a home address and a destination and got back a full multi-modal route: flights,
1 May 2012 Openwave — before the iphone there was a browser inside almost every phone that could reach the internet at all, and for most of a decade that browser came from
May 2012 Road Runner — time warner cable switched it on in akron in september 1996 and named it after a warner bros cartoon bird, because a bird that outruns everything expl
May 2012 Gemaga — it started in 1984 as beep, a japanese magazine about games on home computers and arcade machines, with a layout borrowed from a men's fashion title.
May 2012 Zavit Acheret — students in the middle east and africa history department at tel aviv university started it in 2005, on the argument that israeli media showed the ara
4 May 2012 Glancee — three thousand daily users and not a dollar of outside funding, and facebook bought the whole thing in may 2012 and switched it off the same week. gla
May 2012 BlinkList — kuala lumpur had a del.icio.us competitor in june 2005 and it was better at several specific things. highlight any text on a page and blinklist filled
9 May 2012 Safari for Windows — safari for windows was steve jobs walking onto the wwdc 2007 stage and announcing that the mac browser was now also a windows browser. it ran on windo
9 May 2012 Windows Marketplace for Mobile — windows marketplace for mobile was microsoft's app store for windows mobile 6.x devices. launched 6 october 2009 with 246 apps and a 70/30 developer r
10 May 2012 UpMyStreet — upmystreet let you type a british postcode into a box and get back what living there was actually like: house prices, school results, recorded crime,
May 2012 Plazes — a berlin location-aware social before foursquare existed. it sniffed the router's mac address to guess which cafe you were in, then offered to tell tw
14 May 2012 Perian — four volunteer developers put a farewell letter on the front page on 14 may 2012 and promised one last release. it never shipped. the download link st
May 2012 Ta-da List — ta-da list was 37signals' first free web app, a to-do list you kept in your browser and shared with a link. it launched in january 2005, built on ruby
17 May 2012 Vector maglog — vector spent the 1990s and 2000s as the place japan went to download software, and in 2006 it built a blog host with a cash register attached. maglog
25 May 2012 Yahoo Livestand — livestand was a yahoo ipad app that turned your reading history into a personalized magazine. it shipped in november 2011 as a flipboard competitor an
25 May 2012 Yahoo! Meme — yahoo meme was a microblogging service launched out of yahoo's brazil office in august 2009 as a hybrid of twitter and tumblr. it started in portugues
25 May 2012 BuddyBuddy — buddybuddy was the messenger of the south korean pc-cafe and high-school internet through the early 2000s. it launched january 13 2000 from buddy budd
25 May 2012 aMSN — amsn was an open-source clone of msn messenger that ran everywhere the official client did not, mainly linux and mac. it copied the look and the featu
May 2012 Yahoo Babel Fish — babel fish was the first time a normal web user could paste a paragraph in spanish and read it back in something resembling english, for free, without
30 May 2012 Twango — twango was a media-sharing site launched in 2004 in redmond, washington by jim laurel with four co-founders out of the local ex-microsoft circle. it s
30 May 2012 Tabblo — tabblo was a bay-area photo-storytelling site that let you drop pictures into printable poster layouts. hp bought it in march 2007, mostly for the und
31 May 2012 Tenbit.pl — tenbit.pl was a polish entertainment portal for teenagers, started in april 1998 and big enough by the mid-2000s that it had its own late-night televi
31 May 2012 Microsoft Hohm — most home energy products of 2009 opened by asking what hardware you owned. this one opened by asking how old your water heater was. microsoft license
31 May 2012 Wikipedia Review — wikipedia outlasted its own watchdog by more than a decade. the review opened on proboards in november 2005 and moved to its own domain on 19 february
Jun 2012 Eons.com — eons.com was jeff taylor's second act after monster.com. it launched in july 2006 as a social network for people over fifty, ran into a wall trying to
Jun 2012 myYearbook — three new jersey siblings built it in 2005 during spring break of their sophomore and junior years of high school. it grew into a teen social network
Jun 2012 Backpack — 37signals built backpack in 2005 as a calm little organizer for your own pages and lists, part of the argument that software could be simple on purpos
Jun 2012 QOOP — three founders in mill valley started a print-on-demand outfit in 2005 and wired it into flickr the same year, so the photographs already sitting in y
1 Jun 2012 ZumoDrive — zumodrive came out of zecter, a y combinator startup, and went into private beta in january 2009 with an idea dropbox did not have. instead of syncing
1 Jun 2012 FBML (Facebook Markup Language) — in 2007 facebook decided the html the rest of the web ran on was not enough for it, and shipped a dialect of its own. you wrote an fb:name tag with a
Jun 2012 Bixee — two ex-yahoo engineers, rajesh warrier and ruban phukan, launched a vertical search engine over india's job listings in october 2005 and spent the nex
Jun 2012 Hírszerző.hu — july 2005 to june 2012, seven years of hungarian political journalism written for readers who wanted the argument rather than the wire feed. it double
1 Jun 2012 Needlebase — google paid seven hundred million dollars for a flight search company and a scraping tool came along in the box. needlebase let you point at a web pag
Jun 2012 FileSoup — thegeeker opened filesoup in february 2003, months before the pirate bay existed, and ran it from england as a forum that taught people how bittorrent
Jun 2012 Webスピカ — gentosha comics ran a manga magazine you could not read without installing a plugin called crochet, sold through a bookstore called voyager, on a webs
1 Jun 2012 Fastladder — tokyo had built one of the quickest feed readers on the web and then tried it in english. fastladder launched on 3 july 2007, the same keyboard-driven
5 Jun 2012 Quepasa — quepasa started as a hispanic-targeted web portal in phoenix in 1997, ipo'd on nyse in 1999, crashed with the rest of the dot-com cohort, was revived
7 Jun 2012 38 Studios — 38 studios was the kind of game studio whose collapse you read about on engadget the morning after, not the kind you ever interacted with. curt schill
8 Jun 2012 Jump On It — before it sold a single voucher, jump on it built facebook pages called i love sydney and i love melbourne and waited for people to join them. selling
13 Jun 2012 Habbo Hotel (peak era) — the pixel-art virtual hotel where you were a small standing avatar in a pixel hotel room. you decorated rooms. you traded furniture. you flirted with
13 Jun 2012 TwitVid — twitvid was to video what twitpic was to photos. a link-and-embed workflow bolted onto twitter that carried nearly every uploaded clip in 2010 and 201
14 Jun 2012 XHTML+Voice — opera 12 shipped on 14 june 2012 with a line in its changelog saying voice was gone because the third party vendor no longer supported the speech libr
15 Jun 2012 Lightbox.com — lightbox was an android photo app in the short window when android had almost none. it turned your uploads into a running photo blog, and by late 2011
18 Jun 2012 Face.com — face.com was a tel aviv facial-recognition startup founded in 2009. by february 2011 its api had scanned 18 billion faces across third-party photo app
22 Jun 2012 Summify — two romanian engineers in vancouver built the thing every feed reader needed and nobody had shipped: not everything, just the handful of stories your
26 Jun 2012 Gaopeng — a hundred million dollars, half of it groupon's and half of it tencent's, bought sixteen months of chinese group buying and about two percent of the m
27 Jun 2012 Schlecker — fourteen thousand shops across ten european countries, most of them small and staffed by two people. anton schlecker built the chain out of ehingen fr
29 Jun 2012 Restaurant City — april 2009, and playfish put a restaurant on facebook where the staff were your actual friends, listed by name and photograph. it reached over eightee
30 Jun 2012 Apple iDisk — idisk was apple's pre-icloud answer to "where does a mac put files online." it started free at 20mb in 2000 with itools and turned into a paid feature
30 Jun 2012 Apple iWeb — iweb was apple's wysiwyg site builder for people who owned a mac and a.mac account. it shipped with ilife '06 in january 2006, gave you template-drive
30 Jun 2012 Minitel — the french national online network. you got a small terminal for free from the post office. you typed 3615 plus a service code and you were online, do
30 Jun 2012 MobileMe — mobileme was apple's $99/year cloud-sync service that nobody outside the apple universe paid for. it launched the same week as the iphone 3g and broke
30 Jun 2012 Wakoopa — wakoopa was a small amsterdam tracker plus social layer. a background agent watched which desktop apps you used and posted the activity to a friend fe
30 Jun 2012 X.25 — the standard that made data networks national before anyone could afford to make them global. the ccitt finished it in 1976 and the state phone monopo
30 Jun 2012 Transpac — france opened a public packet network in december 1978 with fifteen hundred connections available, built on a standard that french engineers had helpe
1 Jul 2012 Grono.net — poland had a social network before nasza-klasa took the country. grono.net was invite-only, the invites traded on auction sites, and for a couple of y
Jul 2012 OmniWeb — omniweb was the indie mac browser the omni group started on nextstep in 1995. it survived the os x transition, switched from its proprietary engine to
1 Jul 2012 8Realms — 8realms was a browser-based massively multiplayer strategy game by runescape studio jagex. the closed beta opened on 5 may 2011 with a civilization-st
1 Jul 2012 aka-aki — aka-aki was a berlin startup with an almost romantic idea, that your phone should notice other members standing near you over bluetooth and tell you w
Jul 2012 Openbook — three people in san francisco spent an afternoon in may 2010 wiring up the search api that facebook had opened three weeks earlier, and produced a sit
Jul 2012 The Word — one hundred and fourteen issues over nine and a half years, and the last one was cover-dated august 2012. david hepworth and jerry perkins built the w
Jul 2012 ScriptLance — freelancer.com announced the purchase on 9 july 2012 and the domain was pointing at a freelancer marketing page before the month was out. what it boug
2 Jul 2012 Kodak Gallery — ofoto launched in 1999 as a website that would print your digital photos and ship them to your door. kodak bought it in 2001 and rebranded it as kodak
2 Jul 2012 aQuantive — aquantive was the seattle ad-tech holding company microsoft paid six billion for in august 2007 as the biggest cheque in microsoft's history at that d
2 Jul 2012 AboveNet — abovenet sold the wire itself. it started in 1993 renting out co-location space and guaranteed bandwidth next to the big california peering points, go
3 Jul 2012 Picplz — picplz launched in november 2010 out of mixed media labs, the san francisco company run by dalton caldwell after imeem. it was a filtered mobile photo
3 Jul 2012 CityCaucus.com — nearly 2,400 posts in three and a half years, all of them about the municipal politics of one canadian city. daniel fontaine had been chief of staff t
5 Jul 2012 Ping.fm — ping.fm was the one status update, posted everywhere, before hootsuite and buffer made it a product category. seesmic bought it in january 2010, rebra
5 Jul 2012 Windows Home Server — windows home server was a computer you put in a cupboard and stopped looking at. it backed up every pc in the house overnight, keeping one copy of the
9 Jul 2012 Rockstar Vancouver — six developers walked out of radical entertainment in 1998 and started barking dog studios in vancouver, where they built most of a counter-strike bet
10 Jul 2012 Windows Sidebar / Desktop Gadgets — windows sidebar shipped with windows vista in january 2007 and brought back desktop widgets in a hosted javascript runtime. eleven preinstalled gadget
11 Jul 2012 Meebo — meebo launched in september 2005 from a three-person founding team in palo alto. it was an in-browser front-end for every major instant messaging netw
11 Jul 2012 Yahoo! Widgets (Konfabulator) — konfabulator was a desktop widget runtime that arlo rose shipped for mac os x in february 2003, two years before apple's dashboard. yahoo bought pixor
11 Jul 2012 Microsoft ActiveSync — before a phone could reach a server on its own, it reached a desktop over a cable, and on windows that cable was owned by activesync. it shipped in se
12 Jul 2012 Digg (the original) — the news site where users voted on what made the front page. peak around 2007. the v4 redesign in august 2010 destroyed the user base in two weeks. re
15 Jul 2012 Kung Fu Panda World — kung fu panda world was dreamworks animation's browser world for children, built by humanature studios over two and a half years for around ten millio
18 Jul 2012 GirlSense — g-cents stopped being applicable on 18 july 2012, which is how the farewell notice put it. girlsense was a flash site where teenage girls drew clothin
20 Jul 2012 Sparrow — french indie team builds the prettiest gmail client on the mac, becomes the top paid app on the mac app store its first day, ships an iphone version a
21 Jul 2012 Token Ring — ibm was right about the technology and it did not help. a station only transmits when it holds the token, so there are no collisions and the worst-cas
22 Jul 2012 ijji — nhn built an american front door for korean free-to-play games and then sold the door. ijji ran gunz and soldier front off one login and one wallet, a
25 Jul 2012 iChat — ichat shipped in august 2002 with mac os x 10.2 jaguar as apple's first native aim client. ichat av added video conferencing in 2003, with four-way co
25 Jul 2012 Microsoft Flight — released on 29 february 2012 and canceled on 25 july 2012, which is one hundred and forty seven days of life for a product meant to carry the flight s
25 Jul 2012 Thinkfuse — salesforce bought two engineers on 25 june 2012 and switched off their product thirty days later. thinkfuse had taken the weekly status report, the mo
25 Jul 2012 Xgrid — apple spent much of the 2000s selling the idea that a room full of macs could behave as one computer, and xgrid was the part that made it literally tr
25 Jul 2012 Hashable — you met someone, you typed #justmet and their name, and the app remembered the introduction for you. do enough of it and you climbed a leaderboard for
27 Jul 2012 TOC protocol — aol published this one on purpose. toc was a plain ascii wrapper that sat in front of the closed oscar protocol and translated for anybody writing the
Jul 2012 Google Notebook — google notebook was the clip-and-save tool that lived between google search and gmail. development stopped on 14 january 2009. the service kept runnin
31 Jul 2012 Paran — kth launched paran in july 2004 by folding its hanmir portal into the user base it had inherited from hitel, and the point of it was to make korea tel
Aug 2012 Cisco ūmi — cisco announced umi on october 6, 2010 and shipped it on november 14 the same year as a consumer telepresence product for the living room. the box was
Aug 2012 TeamXbox — teamxbox was the ign-owned xbox fan-community and news site that ran from 2000 to 2012. brent soboleski and steve barton founded it around the origina
Aug 2012 HiPiHi — hipihi was china's second life, founded in beijing in april 2006 by xu hui and rao xuewei, and for about two years it was the project foreign reporter
1 Aug 2012 Twick.it — twitter's character limit pointed at wikipedia's job. markus möller and sean andrew kollak opened it in november 2009 and asked people to explain anyt
Aug 2012 Video Toaster — newtek shipped a full-length card for the amiga 2000 in december 1990 that did most of what a hundred-thousand-dollar grass valley switcher did, for t
Aug 2012 The SCO Group — darl mcbride took over a linux company in june 2002 and by march 2003 it was suing ibm for a billion dollars, sending demand letters to fifteen hundre
1 Aug 2012 Pacific Fibre — a funding gap of four hundred million new zealand dollars is what killed pacific fibre, a company that spent two and a half years trying to put a seco
1 Aug 2012 Zecco — forty free stock trades a month, no minimum balance, paid for by advertising on the website. that was the offer in july 2006 and it held for about fif
Aug 2012 CyberNet Worlds — a download counter is the closest thing this place has to a last will. on 19 july 2012 at 11:03:30 somebody pulled cybernet982.exe off the server, the
6 Aug 2012 Yellow Dog Linux — the linux distribution for powerpc macs. terra soft solutions in loveland colorado shipped the first release in march 1999 for the imac and power mac
9 Aug 2012 Xperia Play — xperia play was the only playstation-branded smartphone ever shipped. sony ericsson built it as a slide-out gamepad android phone with the dpad and pl
13 Aug 2012 Planet Half-Life — planet half-life started as one fan's news page about a single game and became the biggest site in gamespy's planet network, which for about a decade
20 Aug 2012 Google Video — google video was the video-hosting service google launched in january 2005 and then made instantly redundant by buying youtube in october 2006. it kep
20 Aug 2012 Cinch.fm — cinch.fm was the mobile micro-podcasting product built by blogtalkradio parent cinchcast, launched in october 2009. the pitch was one-tap audio bloggi
22 Aug 2012 Kazaa — the mp3 sharing app of choice after napster got sued. kazaa, limewire, and bearshare all ran on similar networks and all bundled spyware. you used the
22 Aug 2012 Psygnosis — psygnosis was put together in liverpool in 1984 out of the wreck of imagine software, and for a decade its owl on a red border was the mark that told
Aug 2012 Diaspora — diaspora was the federated alternative to facebook that arrived three years too early. four nyu students kickstarted it in 2010 with a ten thousand do
Aug 2012 Logitech Squeezebox — squeezebox was the slim devices networked audio player that streamed your local music library to a wall-warted box plugged into a hi-fi receiver. logi
28 Aug 2012 Yahoo Koprol — koprol was an indonesian location-based social network built by pt skyeight indonesia, launched in jakarta in february 2009 by satya witoelar with thr
30 Aug 2012 Microsoft Reader — microsoft reader was the company's bet on the consumer e-reading market in 2000. it ran on Pocket PC PDAs and on Windows desktops. ebooks shipped as.l
Aug 2012 Chumby — chumby launched at o'reilly foo camp on 25 august 2006 as a small wifi-connected bedside appliance with a touchscreen wrapped in leather, running a mo
31 Aug 2012 Parodius Networking — eighteen years of free hosting for emulation pages, nes development documentation and shrines to games nobody else would carry. jeremy chadwick ran pa
Sep 2012 AtomFilms — late-90s short-film portal out of seattle. independent shorts, animated content, the official star wars fan film awards in partnership with lucasfilm
Sep 2012 ZunZuneo — usaid hired creative associates international and mobile accord to build a sms-only twitter clone for cuba, routed through a cayman islands shell-comp
Sep 2012 Chomp — chomp was a search engine for mobile apps, one of the first tools that let you find apps by what they did rather than by name. apple acquired it on 24
Sep 2012 Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising — announced in march 2005 for a release later that same year, gods and heroes reached players in june 2011 with a different company's name on the box. p
Sep 2012 VizWoz — doug richard, two series into dragons' den, chaired a birmingham startup building a 3d hangout for eleven-year-olds. it launched on a friday in march
3 Sep 2012 Webコミックゲッキン (YOMBAN) — a home video company ran a free comic site for three and a half years to feed its own anime licenses, and accidentally published a future akutagawa pr
5 Sep 2012 Seesmic — seesmic was three products in four years. it started in 2008 as a video-comment platform, the founder loïc le meur framed it as a cross between youtub
5 Sep 2012 Timberwolf — six thousand seven hundred and thirty two euros bought an amigaos 4 build of firefox 4.0.1, and the bounty closed seven weeks before the final release
6 Sep 2012 Wunderkit — four hundred thousand people signed up in seven months and it was still the one berlin killed. 6wunderkinder had a hit in wunderlist and wanted a plat
9 Sep 2012 KOffice — koffice was the office suite kde wrote for itself, first released with kde 2.0 in october 2000 and cited by microsoft in the antitrust trial as eviden
11 Sep 2012 An Fear Rua — liam cahill started an fear rua in september 2000 and ran it for twelve years as the place irish gaelic games argued with itself, in english and in ir
11 Sep 2012 Andriasang — anoop gantayat left ign's japan desk in 2008 and started posting the same work under his own domain, usually within hours of the japanese press releas
15 Sep 2012 Gist — t.a. mccann left microsoft's exchange group to build the thing exchange never did: an address book that filled itself in. gist read your mail, worked
17 Sep 2012 VilaBOL — brazil's free homepage service, run out of BOL, the free-access portal that uol absorbed in 1996. fifteen megabytes, a builder for people who did not
19 Sep 2012 Rypple — rypple set out to kill the annual performance review and replace it with small amounts of feedback all year round. two founders in toronto who had alr
20 Sep 2012 Speex — nine days after opus 1.0 came out, an orange box appeared on speex.org saying the codec had been obsoleted by it. the same foundation wrote both. spee
Sep 2012 Elder Pastitsios — a golden dawn mp put a question to the greek justice minister about a facebook page on 17 september 2012. four days later the man who ran it was arres
26 Sep 2012 Black Prophecy — a studio of about fifty people in hannover spent five years on a space combat mmo where you bolted your own ship together out of parts instead of pick
26 Sep 2012 CIA.vc — a hosting provider deleted the database, nobody had a backup, and the commit messages of ten thousand open source repositories stopped arriving in the
27 Sep 2012 Endless.com — endless was amazon's first separately-branded ecommerce site, launched in december 2007 as a shoes-and-handbags property positioned against zappos. am
27 Sep 2012 Google Insights for Search — google trends was the public toy. insights for search, opened on 5 august 2008, was the same search-volume data with the controls an advertiser actual
28 Sep 2012 Phantasy Star Universe — phantasy star universe was sega's attempt to take phantasy star online's offline-plus-online formula into a wider mmo experience. it shipped on pc and
28 Sep 2012 EMI — guy hands had never worked in the music business when his private equity firm paid 4.2 billion pounds for emi in august 2007, most of it borrowed from
30 Sep 2012 Apple Ping — apple ping was a social network inside itunes 10. you followed artists and you saw what your friends bought. steve jobs introduced it on 1 september 2
Oct 2012 Ya.com — ya.com was spain's number-two web portal, spun up in 1999 by martin varsavsky and a group of people who had just walked out of terra. it was the secon
Oct 2012 VirusBuster — a budapest antivirus house that started in the late eighties under the name virsec, took the virusbuster name in 1992 and spent most of its life on hu
1 Oct 2012 JS-Kit Echo — a cisco security engineer wrote a comment widget as a side project in 2006 and it grew into a company that bought haloscan. js-kit renamed itself echo
Oct 2012 FlexComixブラッド (FlexComix Blood) — softbank creative killed monthly shonen blood after seven issues in 2006 and most of its serials came back the following january as a free website ins
Oct 2012 Intel Array Building Blocks — five years of research and one acquisition went into this. arbb came out of intel's ct project and the rapidmind team intel bought in 2009, and it off
5 Oct 2012 Motorola Atrix Lapdock — the atrix lapdock was the cleanest version of the phone-as-laptop pitch. you slid an atrix 4g into the back of a thin clamshell, the lapdock booted mo
15 Oct 2012 Microsoft Zune — microsoft's iPod competitor. arrived in 2006, five years after the iPod had won. brown was a launch color, which became the joke. the hardware was act
15 Oct 2012 Zune Social — microsoft launched zune social in november 2007 as the community layer on top of the zune ecosystem. the zune card, the wireless song passes between d
15 Oct 2012 Qaiku — a microblog built to save the one it grew up on. when google bought jaiku and let it go stale, a finnish shop called rohea made qaiku to carry the sam
17 Oct 2012 Directgov — britain's attempt at one website for the whole state, live on 1 april 2004 to replace ukonline.gov.uk. you went to it for a car tax question or a pass
19 Oct 2012 Facebook Questions — quora opened to the public in june 2010 and facebook shipped a reply within weeks. questions launched that july as a real question-and-answer product,
19 Oct 2012 Google Music Search — 140 record labels handed over their catalogs and the downloads were free. in march 2009 google china launched a music search with a beijing company ca
19 Oct 2012 The Locker Project — jeremie miller had already written the protocol behind jabber when he opened this repository in december 2010. the idea was a program you ran yourself
20 Oct 2012 Kingfisher Airlines — six thousand people stopped being paid in march 2012 and kept flying anyway until the pilots walked out at the end of september. vijay mallya's airlin
23 Oct 2012 Ceefax — ceefax was the bbc's teletext service. it ran for thirty-eight years inside the vertical blanking interval of the analog tv signal, the unused lines b
25 Oct 2012 Koders — before stack overflow existed and before any code host had a search box worth using, finding out how somebody else had solved your problem meant searc
2012 Megite — by early 2006 the tech blogosphere had a handful of crawlers fighting over the same job, which was working out what everyone was arguing about that mo
26 Oct 2012 Vector Markup Language — two rival proposals landed at the w3c five weeks apart in 1998, one from microsoft and one from adobe. the committee took neither and built svg out of
29 Oct 2012 CubeDuel — fifty thousand votes went in on the first day. adam doppelt and tony wright had built hot or not for your own colleagues, with the faces coming straig
Nov 2012 Piczo — piczo was the personal-website builder for british 13-16 year olds in the bebo years. jim conning launched it from san francisco in 2003, but the user
1 Nov 2012 Sugababes.nl — on 3 october 2012 the front page of sugababes.nl reported nine babes and seventeen dudes online. eleven years earlier the same site had been the place
Nov 2012 High Impact Games — a burbank studio full of insomniac alumni made the ratchet and clank games that fit on a psp, starting with size matters in february 2007 and finishin
Nov 2012 co.cc — 13,551,191 domains on its own counter in october 2012, and a month later none of them resolved. co.cc was a company in goyang, south korea that owned
1 Nov 2012 Google Listen — 580,000 people a month were using it when google decided it was not needed. listen was the first podcast app google ever shipped, out of labs in augus
Nov 2012 Boyfriend Maker — apple took it down in the last week of november 2012, three days after the trade press published transcripts of what the virtual boyfriend had been te
1 Nov 2012 Web Intents — greg billock mailed the obituary to a w3c list at 11:47 on the morning of 1 november 2012, in one paragraph, and nobody argued with him. web intents w
2 Nov 2012 CompUSA — compusa was the place you walked into in the us to buy a beige tower or a stack of cd-r media. the format never really reached turkey. the brand was o
5 Nov 2012 MojaGeneracja.pl — mojageneracja was the social network the gadu-gadu company built on top of the messenger half of poland already left running all day. it opened in feb
6 Nov 2012 Life with PlayStation — life with playstation was the ps3 application sony wrapped around the folding@home client, putting stanford's protein simulations behind a spinning gl
8 Nov 2012 Adobe Flash Lite — flash lite was the mobile subset of macromedia and then adobe flash, built for handsets without enough cpu to run the desktop player. ntt docomo shipp
11 Nov 2012 Final Fantasy XIV (1.0) — square enix shipped a numbered final fantasy as an mmo in september 2010 and it landed at 49 on metacritic, which for that name was less a bad score t
13 Nov 2012 Navteq — navteq spent twenty-seven years building the part you never saw, which is the underlying road data that in-car navigation ran on. it started in 1985 i
16 Nov 2012 Loosecubes — brooklyn, june 2010. campbell mckellar and anna thomas built a marketplace out of a fact every office already knew about itself, which is that there a
19 Nov 2012 vWorker (Rent A Coder) — a marketplace for programming work, opened by ian ippolito in tampa in 2001 under the name rent a coder. you posted a job, coders bid on it blind with
23 Nov 2012 Joystick — joystick started on 9 november 1988 as a thirty two page weekly of cheat codes and reviews, went monthly in january 1990, and spent the next twenty tw
25 Nov 2012 asparaclub — the asahi shimbun wanted a reason for its paper readers to hold an account, so in october 2004 it opened a club named after a vegetable and sorted the
26 Nov 2012 The Totally Rad Show — 760 episodes, the last of them an hour and three minutes long, made by three friends in front of a bedsheet-sized green screen in a garage. it started
28 Nov 2012 Newzbin — newzbin did not host anything. it read usenet and worked out which scattered binary posts belonged to which film, then handed you a small file that to
Nov 2012 EveryScape — waltham, massachusetts spent a decade on the idea that a city should be walkable from a browser, and not from the middle of the road. everyscape stitc
29 Nov 2012 Cover Flow — the rotating 3d album-art carousel that made every steve jobs keynote from 2007 to 2012 feel like the future. invented by andrew coulter enright, impl
30 Nov 2012 City of Heroes — city of heroes was a superhero subscription mmo. ncsoft pulled the plug in november 2012 with about a hundred thousand active subscribers still on the
30 Nov 2012 Ozú — spain got two homegrown search engines in the same year, and ozú was the one with the andalusian name. it arrived in 1996 alongside olé, back when fin
30 Nov 2012 Taiwan Forum — over a million taiwanese accounts, and a music section that kept getting the site raided. 台灣論壇 opened in march 2004 and spent eight years as the large
2012 Lotus Notes — lotus notes was the desktop client for the lotus domino server, the dominant corporate email and groupware stack of the 1990s. ibm bought lotus in 199
1 Dec 2012 Webshots — webshots started in 1995 as a sports-themed screensaver you bought at retail. by 1999 the founders had pulled it onto the web and turned it into one o
Dec 2012 Barnes & Noble Nook Color — the nook color was the device that almost made barnes and noble a hardware company. seven inches, color ips screen, customized android 2.2, $249 at la
Dec 2012 Zoopy — cape town built a south african youtube in 2006 and vodacom liked it enough to buy all of it, in three steps, across two years. in february 2011 the s
Dec 2012 CastTV — edwin ong and alex vikati built a search engine for video in 2006, back when finding a television episode online meant knowing which of forty sites ha
Dec 2012 Paxfire — in august 2011 berkeley researchers published proof that a set of american isps were routing their subscribers' yahoo and bing searches through a midd
Dec 2012 Gougou — the office of the us trade representative put gougou on its notorious markets list on 13 december 2012, and the site was gone before the month ended.
2 Dec 2012 kreuz.net — berlin prosecutors opened an incitement investigation in 2012, and a reward of fifteen thousand euros went up for anyone who could name the people run
3 Dec 2012 Tungle.me — tungle was a scheduling tool that sat on top of whatever calendar you already had and let other people book time with you without the email back-and-f
3 Dec 2012 AdSense for Feeds — the only money feedburner ever made came from an ad slot inside other people's rss. google opened that slot as a public beta in may 2005, two years be
3 Dec 2012 Twistory — twitter's api rewrite in 2012 took a long list of small tools down with it and this was one of them. tijs vrolix built twistory in a belgian town in 2
4 Dec 2012 Fictionwise — the multi-format ebook store that predated the kindle by seven years. founded on 5 june 2000 by brothers steve and scott pendergrast, it sold titles i
5 Dec 2012 FishVille — fishville shipped on facebook 6 november 2009 as zynga's aquarium sibling to farmville. you bought pixel fish, fed them through three growth stages, s
5 Dec 2012 Vampire Wars — vampire wars shipped on facebook in june 2008 as zynga's vampire-themed version of mafia wars. clan-recruitment and turn-based combat, real money for
5 Dec 2012 Treasure Isle — treasure isle shipped on facebook 4 april 2010 as zynga's beach-dig game, the ville-family cousin that swapped fields for sand and gems for coins. ene
5 Dec 2012 RewardVille — twenty-one months is how long zynga ran a loyalty scheme across its own games. rewardville handed out zcoins and zpoints for playing farmville or city
6 Dec 2012 Pobieraczek.pl — thirty thousand complaints arrived in the first nine months and the service ran for three more years after that. pobieraczek sold ten free days of dow
6 Dec 2012 Eurocom — around seventy shipped games in twenty four years, and the front of the box almost never said eurocom. the derby studio did bond, mortal kombat, crash
7 Dec 2012 Adobe Flash Builder — flash builder was the eclipse-based ide adobe sold to flex developers between 2005 and 2012. it started as macromedia flex builder 1.0 in june 2005, w
8 Dec 2012 WSO2 Mashup Server — january 2008, and a sri lankan open source company shipped the first mashup server anybody could download and read the source of. you wrote javascript
9 Dec 2012 Glitch — glitch was a flash-based browser mmo built by tiny speck, the studio stewart butterfield founded after leaving yahoo in 2008. it ran on charm rather t
9 Dec 2012 NZBMatrix — nzbmatrix indexed usenet. it stored no files at all, it read the raw binary groups and produced a small pointer file telling your downloader which sca
11 Dec 2012 Nintendo Power — the official nintendo of america print magazine. born july 1988 with a free 3.6 million copy run mailed out to fun club members. ended at issue 285 in
13 Dec 2012 Sympatico — sympatico was the page that opened when a canadian opened a browser. bell and the other incumbent phone companies launched it on 29 november 1995 alon
14 Dec 2012 Yahoo! Chat — yahoo chat was a separate product from yahoo messenger. it ran in the browser as a java applet and drew its own crowd of regulars, until a 2005 advert
14 Dec 2012 OpenFeint — openfeint was the achievements and leaderboards layer that mobile games bolted on before apple and google shipped their own. you did not choose it. yo
15 Dec 2012 The Daily — the daily was rupert murdoch's bet that people would pay for a newspaper that only existed on an ipad. it launched in early 2011, ran for less than tw
15 Dec 2012 Verizon V CAST — the verizon mobile portal that piped video and music over 3g ev-do straight to feature phones and early smartphones from february 2005 to december 15
17 Dec 2012 Ameba Pico — ameba pico was the english-language port of cyberagent's ameba pigg virtual world, launched on facebook on 11 march 2010 as the first product of cyber
18 Dec 2012 Yahoo! Rikunabi — recruit had the listings and yahoo japan had the audience, so in april 2004 they put both behind a single brand and pointed every yahoo user at it. th
18 Dec 2012 Naneun Ggomsuda — four men in a room in seoul, talking about the president, for twenty months. it was published by ddanzi ilbo rather than by a broadcaster, it averaged
20 Dec 2012 Microsoft Expression Web — microsoft tried to do html the grown-up way after frontpage's reputation collapsed. expression web shipped clean markup, no proprietary tags, no share
20 Dec 2012 Futubra — mail.ru built a russian twitter with a two hundred character limit and pictures attached to everything, opened it in january 2012 and closed it in dec
20 Dec 2012 Microsoft Expression Design — two researchers in hong kong invented skeletal strokes, a way to bend an entire drawing along a curve as if it were a brush loaded with a picture, and
20 Dec 2012 Microsoft Expression Encoder — the free edition is the one that mattered. microsoft shipped expression encoder in september 2007 as the transcoder that fed silverlight, sold a pro v
25 Dec 2012 Dengeki Comic Japan — every issue was free, back catalog included, which was not how japanese comic publishers behaved in 2010. ascii media works put it out on the 25th of
30 Dec 2012 PetVille — petville was a facebook pet simulation game zynga released in 2010, the pet themed sibling of farmville and fishville. you adopted a pixel pet and dec
30 Dec 2012 Installous — goodnight, sweet prince was the opening line of the notice. installous was the piracy half of the jailbreak, a cydia package that browsed an index of
31 Dec 2012 Color — color was a proximity-based photo-sharing app from bill nguyen and peter pham, launched on march 24, 2011 with $41 million in pre-launch funding from
31 Dec 2012 DailyBooth — dailybooth was a photoblogging platform built around a single format. one self-portrait per day, with a caption underneath. it launched in february 20
2012 Mixi — the japanese social network where almost everyone in the country in their twenties had an account at peak. invitation-only entry, a personal diary pag
31 Dec 2012 Yahoo Korea — yahoo korea launched in september 1997 with the home-team advantage of yahoo's global brand. naver took first place in 2003 and daum took second in 20
2012 Vlingo — vlingo was the june 2006 cambridge massachusetts voice assistant by mike phillips and john nguyen. the app shipped on most pre-iphone smartphone platf
2012 Nokia N9 — the n9 was nokia's only meego harmattan phone. it shipped 23 september 2011 in a small set of european and latin-american markets, never reached the u
31 Dec 2012 Newsweek (original print run) — the us news weekly that lived in the same tier as time for 79 years. thomas martyn started it on 17 february 1933. washington post company owned it fr
2012 GameShark — gameshark let you type twelve characters of hexadecimal into a console and change what a game believed about itself. datel built the hardware in engla
31 Dec 2012 Webroot Spy Sweeper — steven thomas and kristen talley started webroot in boulder in july 1997 with a tool that erased browser traces, and five years later they fell into t
Dec 2012 Elluminate — calgary built the virtual classroom that most of the english-speaking education world sat in before anyone had heard of zoom. elluminate opened in 200
2012 Planet Cazmo — skate parks and a personal spaceship, plus more than fifty virtual concerts in 2010 alone. planet cazmo ran from 2007 out of a small company whose pre

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