Death Anniversaries, 2015

every grave in this cemetery, by year of death. this page covers 2015.

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2015 AsianAvenue — asianavenue launched july 21, 1997 as one of the first identity-keyed social networks on the open web. it was the asian-american property inside commu
1 Jan 2015 Nokia Ovi Store — the ovi store was nokia's centralized app store for symbian s60 and series 40 devices, launched in may 2009 as the lineup's answer to the apple app st
1 Jan 2015 43 Things — 43 things was the goal-list social network the robot co-op shipped out of seattle in january 2005. you wrote down up to forty-three things you wanted
2015 Netlog — netlog was the belgian social network that scaled across continental europe in the late 2000s and folded into a dating app on the way out. lorenz boga
Jan 2015 Videolog.tv — videolog was the brazilian video-sharing site that ran in portuguese while youtube ran in english. ariel alexandre and edson mackeenzy launched it fro
2015 Bokee — bokee started as blogchina.com in 2002 and coined the mandarin word for blog. it took ten million dollars from bessemer and ggv in 2005 and lost most
2015 Kaboodle — kaboodle was one of the first working social shopping sites: a place where users clipped product links from anywhere on the open web, built themed col
2015 Blip.fm — blip.fm was a twitter-styled music sharing site launched in july 2008 by jeff yasuda and brian venneman under the fuzz artists parent brand. users wou
2015 Rediff Bol — rediff bol was the desktop instant messenger built by rediff.com india ltd, launched in alpha in early 2005 and pitched as a hindi-friendly answer to
2015 Motribe — motribe was a cape town mobile-community platform founded in august 2010 by nic haralambous and vincent maher. it let brands and organizations spin up
2015 Roiworld — roiworld was a south korean casual gaming platform founded in 2003, running high-quality vector flash dress-up games inside a community site with comp
Jan 2015 Amazon Wallet — a phone app from amazon that held your gift cards and store loyalty cards in one place. the catch was that it could not do the one thing people wanted
2015 Blurty — blurty was one of the livejournal clones that sprouted after livejournal opened its code around 2002. it ran the same software, down to the friends li
2015 Cinemagram — cinemagram taught a phone to make a cinemagraph, a photo with one small part still moving, and for a while in 2012 that was the most novel thing in an
2015 Fropper — fropper was india's first real social network, a product from the mumbai people who also built shaadi.com. it launched in 2003 and had its moment befo
2015 Google Wallet (2011) — the original google wallet was google guessing, correctly, that your phone would replace your cards, and then getting blocked at every gate that matte
2015 UberSocial — ubersocial started life as ubertwitter, the most popular way to use twitter on a blackberry. in 2011 twitter caught it bending the rules, editing twee
2015 kahkaha.com — kahkaha.com was one of the first turkish-language entertainment sites and it lasted sixteen years by never deciding what it was. it opened in 1999 as
Jan 2015 Blubster — a developer in his early twenties wrote his own peer-to-peer protocol in madrid in 2001 and put a music search box on top of it. seven years later the
1 Jan 2015 Chipknip — chipknip was a chip on the back of every dutch bank card that held money instead of pointing at it. you loaded it at a machine with your pin, then spe
2015 NetObjects Fusion — netobjects fusion let you drag boxes around a page and it wrote the html underneath, which in 1996 was worth a hundred million dollars of ibm's money.
2015 Toonlet — toonlet was a webcomic site built on the premise that drawing was the thing stopping you. you assembled a character out of premade parts inside a flas
2015 Foinse — pádraig ó céidigh started an irish-language weekly in carraroe in october 1996 and ran it for thirteen years before a funding argument closed it. it c
Jan 2015 GotFrag — the counter-strike news site, started in 2002, back when competitive gaming had no press of its own and no name anyone agreed on. it ran match reports
2015 oneview — a cologne advertising agency built a link saving site in 1998, five years before anybody was calling this social bookmarking. it took a german multime
2015 Podcast Pickle — gary leland launched podcast pickle in march 2005, back when finding a podcast meant somebody had listed it somewhere by hand. by march 2007 the direc
2015 JournalFen — fandom wank was founded on livejournal in october 2002 and deleted for harassment complaints in january 2003. it went to blurty and was deleted again
2015 Passagen — in january 1999 the second most visited website in sweden was not a newspaper or a broadcaster, it was passagen, with 1.46 million visitors and 400,00
2015 Bloggy — jonas lejon, a swedish programmer, watched google buy jaiku and park it, so in september 2008 he put up a replacement close enough that the leavers wo
2015 General Computer Corporation — fifty thousand dollars a month for two years is what atari agreed to pay the students it had just sued, on condition they stopped modifying other comp
2015 Clip.vn — 200,000 visitors came on the first day in february 2007 and 50,000 of them were on the site at the same moment, which the servers did not survive. cli
2015 MacTalk Australia — two strangers met on an overclocking forum and started an australian apple forum on new year's day 2004, and inside two years it was a top ten austral
2015 Nakido — doylestown, pennsylvania is not where you expect a file locker to come from. nakido ran from 2004 to the first weeks of 2015 and claimed 39.6 million
Jan 2015 Kienu — kie.nu reads in japanese as "does not disappear", and the whole pitch was that your files would never be culled to make room. on 11 december 2014 the
1 Jan 2015 Gunshow — 900 strips between september 2008 and january 2015, and most of the world knows two panels of one of them. kc green drew a dog in a burning room on 9
3 Jan 2015 CapGeek — capgeek was a live public database of every nhl player contract that both team front offices and fans treated as authoritative, with the working press
6 Jan 2015 Adobe Buzzword — buzzword was the flex-based online word processor adobe bought from virtual ubiquity in september 2007. it ran inside flash player and looked like a r
9 Jan 2015 Right Media — michael walrath founded right media in march 2003 with noah and jonah goodhart backing it, and built the right media exchange, an open marketplace whe
12 Jan 2015 NimbleTV — nimbletv sold television you had already bought, delivered somewhere else. if you had a new york cable package it verified the account through the ope
12 Jan 2015 Nokia Memories — microsoft bought nokia's phone business in april 2014 and spent the following year switching off the parts with nokia written on them. memories.nokia.
14 Jan 2015 Windows Media Encoder — microsoft renamed the netshow encoder to windows media encoder in october 1999 and then gave it away for fifteen years. the version everybody actually
15 Jan 2015 Google Glass — google glass explorer edition went on sale in april 2013 to a hand-picked group of $1500 early adopters. the device was a head-mounted camera with a t
Jan 2015 Tippr — seattle had a daily deals company in 2010 that was really a patent company wearing a coupon site as a costume. martin tobias built tippr out of a star
19 Jan 2015 Brace.io — squarespace bought brace.io on 17 november 2014 and switched it off nine weeks later, on 19 january 2015, taking every hosted site and every redirect
22 Jan 2015 AyosDito.ph — it launched in march 2009 and the name is tagalog for "ok here". by 2013 it was the second largest classifieds site in the philippines, owned through
22 Jan 2015 SkyMall — skymall was a mail order catalog with one distribution deal behind it: the seat pocket in front of a passenger who had nothing else to do for four hou
26 Jan 2015 Berniaga.com — 701search, a joint venture between norwegian and singaporean media companies, launched berniaga in december 2009 and spent five years running second t
28 Jan 2015 MediaCrush — 375,595 files and fifty petabytes of bandwidth, and then the disks were full. mediacrush was an ad-free media host built in 2013 by drew devault and j
29 Jan 2015 Acompli — acompli was an iOS email app from april 2014. microsoft paid more than two hundred million dollars for it in december 2014. six weeks later the brand
29 Jan 2015 Space Heroes Universe! — the closing notice went up on 21 december 2014, which is a hard week to tell children anything. an australian studio called bubble gum interactive had
29 Jan 2015 Railo — a fork killed it, and the fork came from the same hands. on 29 january 2015 railo's original developer announced lucee, built from the railo 4.2 codeb
Jan 2015 Microsoft Surface RT — surface rt was microsoft's debut consumer tablet. it shipped on windows rt, an arm port of windows 8 that could only run windows store apps and a desk
31 Jan 2015 Transformers Universe — transformers universe never launched. jagex announced it in 2010 as a browser mmo where you would build your own transformer. four years later it came
31 Jan 2015 Sky Active — for sixteen years a british television remote had a button that opened a shopping mall. sky active was the walled garden bolted onto sky digital, wher
1 Feb 2015 Inkblazers — two founders working out of boston and bangkok raised a million dollars in 2011 and built a place where you could host a webcomic for free, keep every
Feb 2015 Dawngate — electronic arts put a new studio called waystone games on a moba in 2013, at the point when every publisher on earth wanted one. dawngate did not copy
Feb 2015 Dreamfilm — a prosecutor in linköping worked out that the cheapest way to close a streaming site is to let one of its administrators go home and tell him what hap
Feb 2015 Spot.us — $340,000 of knight foundation money went into proving that readers would pay a freelancer directly to go report one specific story, and it worked well
2 Feb 2015 Sony Online Entertainment — sony online entertainment was the san diego studio that built the everquest franchise and ran the playstation side of sony's pc mmo business from 1998
2 Feb 2015 SkillPages — skillpages was a dublin social network for finding people by what they could do, a plumber or a photographer, matched to whoever needed them. it start
2 Feb 2015 GreenCine — a mail rental company for the films the big mail rental company did not bother stocking. it started in san francisco in 1999 as a side project inside
3 Feb 2015 Joystiq — joystiq launched the year wow shipped and died the year the polygon generation had already moved on. peter rojas spun it out of engadget because games
3 Feb 2015 Massively — massively was the english-language mmo press during the genre's graveyard decade. it launched out of joystiq in november 2007, covered the death of st
3 Feb 2015 TUAW — tuaw covered every apple keynote from the ipod nano to the apple watch reveal. i was on windows the entire time. when aol pulled the plug in february
5 Feb 2015 ReadWriteWeb — readwriteweb was the tech blog of the web 2.0 decade. richard macmanus started it in new zealand in 2003 as a one-man blog about emerging web technolo
6 Feb 2015 CrunchBang Linux — a british developer called philip newborough took debian, removed the desktop environment, put openbox in its place and shipped it with a black backgr
7 Feb 2015 Muve Music — cricket wireless was an american prepaid carrier running a cdma network, and in january 2011 it started bundling unlimited music downloads into a fift
2015 MegaSWF — a swf file was a program wearing a video's clothes, and almost no host would take one. megaswf took them at 10 GB a file, for free, with a player on t
10 Feb 2015 Magharebia — united states european command started a news website about north africa in 2004, and africom inherited it when africom was created. magharebia publis
13 Feb 2015 Sun News Network — eighty-nine thousand viewers, on one night in august 2011, was the best sun news network ever did. quebecor launched the channel on 18 april 2011 into
16 Feb 2015 Mecom Group — the plan was to buy local newspapers across continental europe with borrowed money, on the theory that nobody in london much cared what a danish or du
18 Feb 2015 Karotz — 18 february 2015 is the day the ears stopped moving. karotz was the third and last of the french internet rabbits, a plastic bunny with wi-fi, a swive
25 Feb 2015 Orange Wednesdays — a mobile network promotion that turned into a national weekday habit. you sent the word film to 241 on a wednesday and the code that came back bought
26 Feb 2015 Computer and Video Games — it was the first magazine anywhere devoted to video games, published in britain from november 1981, covering arcade cabinets and home computers before
28 Feb 2015 EduCities (亞卓市) — taiwan built a city on the web for its schoolchildren and kept it running for fifteen years. 亞卓市 opened on 5 january 2000 out of a learning technology
Mar 2015 Fab.com — jason goldberg pivoted his stalled gay social network fabulis into a daily flash-sale design site in june 2011, and fab.com became the fastest e-comme
Mar 2015 Zooomr — zooomr was a photo sharing site launched in 2005 by kristopher tate, then 17, and michael van veen of bluebridge technologies group. it was pitched as
Mar 2015 dELiA*s — delias was a catalog before it was a website, and for a stretch of the 90s it was the way american teenage girls found clothes. it started in 1993 aim
Mar 2015 Indowebster — indowebster started on 15 april 2007 as a place to put files that indonesian connections could actually reach, and grew into the country's own upload
Mar 2015 Brand.com — a philadelphia firm that sold the removal of bad search results, founded in 2009 as reputation changer and renamed after the 500,000 dollar domain it
Mar 2015 GAW Miners — the sec put it plainly in december 2015. gaw miners sold far more mining power than it owned and paid the early buyers out of what the later buyers ha
Mar 2015 Assustador — 16,899,217 visits in february 2004, every one of them through a front page that was half legal disclaimer and half dare. assustador was where a genera
Mar 2015 DrivePop — unlimited was the entire pitch, and in online backup that word has a habit of outliving the company that prints it. drivepop sold unlimited cloud back
4 Mar 2015 Maxis (Emeryville) — maxis was founded by will wright and jeff braun in 1987, shipped simcity, simcity 2000, the sims, and spore, and ran as the core ea simulation studio
7 Mar 2015 Target Ticket — target put a movie store on the internet in september 2013, priced it roughly like itunes, wrapped it in ultraviolet and aimed the whole thing at fami
9 Mar 2015 GigaOM — gigaom was om malik's long-form tech site, a sister to techcrunch and ars technica through the late 2000s and early 2010s. it had 6.4 million monthly
9 Mar 2015 Nokia Mail — the webmail nokia carried into the microsoft acquisition and did not carry out. it started as ovi mail beta on 13 august 2008 with over 9 million user
10 Mar 2015 Smush.it — two engineers demoed it in boston on 30 september 2008 and yahoo ran it for the next six and a half years: you handed smush.it an image, it ran the go
10 Mar 2015 Favoor — cem bozok and murat polat launched favoor in 2005 and kept it running for ten years. it was a personal start page in german, bookmarks and rss feeds o
11 Mar 2015 Baidu Yi — an internal business restructuring took it out, which is the flattest sentence an operating system has ever died of. baidu announced its own android o
13 Mar 2015 TheFind — facebook announced the purchase and the closure in the same sentence on 13 march 2015. thefind had spent nine years building a shopping search engine
Mar 2015 Central Asia Online — congress killed this one with a line in a budget. the defense bill for fiscal 2014 said no money could be spent on the trans regional web initiative,
15 Mar 2015 BebaPay — a prepaid nfc card for nairobi bus fare, launched on 30 april 2013 by google with equity bank, tapped against a conductor's android handset instead of
15 Mar 2015 もっとTV — japan's five biggest commercial broadcasters agreed on one video service exactly once, and this was it. dentsu wired motto tv into panasonic and toshi
15 Mar 2015 CloudOn — herzliya, 2012: a team streamed a real copy of microsoft word into an ipad browser, pointed it at your dropbox, and handed it over for free. for two y
15 Mar 2015 Google Business Sitebuilder — between 2011 and 2013 google walked into nigeria, kenya, south africa, malaysia and indonesia offering every small business a free website and a free
Mar 2015 Al-Shorfa — congress ordered the program closed in section 344 of the 2014 defense authorization act, and the websites responded by changing their names. al-shorf
18 Mar 2015 Evolution — evolution opened in january 2014 and spent a year being the most reliable market on tor. the site stayed up and the escrow held, which was rare enough
19 Mar 2015 Insound — sixteen years of selling records over the web, profitable for most of them, and the end arrived as a tweet about corporate cost-cutting. warner's ada
19 Mar 2015 Place My Past — upload the family tree file your genealogy program exports and this thing would plot every event in it onto a map, then tell you what the place had be
20 Mar 2015 Industrial Property Digital Library — at ten in the evening on friday 20 march 2015 the japanese government switched off a free public search across ninety-eight million patent and tradema
23 Mar 2015 Karmaloop — karmaloop was the online store that sold streetwear to a generation raised on hip-hop and skate culture, run out of boston by greg selkoe from 1999. a
23 Mar 2015 The Hoopla — the hoopla launched in july 2011 as an australian news and opinion site written for women over thirty five, a readership the rest of the industry had
23 Mar 2015 Aora — aora went nationwide across indonesia in august 2008 with ten channels and the exclusive indonesian rights to the beijing olympics, four of those chan
27 Mar 2015 Blekko — blekko was the slashtag search engine that rich skrenta launched publicly on 1 november 2010, with the pitch of fixing google's spam problem by lettin
29 Mar 2015 Sony Music Unlimited — music unlimited was sony's attempt to run a spotify-class streaming service through the playstation network. it launched as part of the short-lived qr
29 Mar 2015 Rara — rara was a music streaming service that lived and died as a preinstall. it shipped on hp laptops from 2011 and reached 22 million tracks in the catalo
Mar 2015 SETimes — in october 1999 it went up as balkan-info. two renames later the masthead said setimes, and the us european command paid for every version of it. paid
30 Mar 2015 WiMP — wimp was norway's answer to spotify from 2010 to 2015, first for nordic markets and then for audiophiles once the hifi tier shipped in 2013. jay-z bou
31 Mar 2015 PlayStation Home — playstation home was sony's answer to second life, except attached to a console you already owned and a network you were already logged into. open bet
31 Mar 2015 RapidShare — rapidshare was the link in the email forward and the link in the forum post. it was the url a friend on msn would send you because his cousin had ripp
31 Mar 2015 Softcard — the three biggest us carriers got together in 2010 and built a tap-to-pay nfc wallet inside a sim-based secure element. they called it isis. then isis
31 Mar 2015 ChatON — chaton was samsung's messenger answer to whatsapp and imessage, free, cross-platform, preinstalled on every galaxy device from 2011 to 2014. it signed
31 Mar 2015 Multimap.com — multimap was the UK online mapping site that defined "click this link to see the office on a map" between 1996 and the arrival of google maps in '05.
31 Mar 2015 Build-A-Bearville — build-a-bearville was the online world for build-a-bear workshop, the mall chain where children assemble a stuffed animal at the counter. the bear you
31 Mar 2015 Little Printer — berg made a palm-sized thermal printer that woke up and printed you a little newspaper, your weather and a note from a friend, all on a curl of receip
31 Mar 2015 Poupéegirl — poupéegirl was a japanese fashion community where you photographed real clothes you owned, uploaded them, and earned currency to dress up a little car
31 Mar 2015 Taptu — taptu started in cambridge in 2007 as a search engine for phones, back when a phone browser was a compromise and somebody had to build an index that s
Mar 2015 Handbag.com — handbag.com was a british high street chemist and a british newspaper group building a portal for british women, launched on 6 october 1999 with three
31 Mar 2015 Trovebox — a kickstarter in december 2011 funded the idea that your photo library should not be hostage to the company hosting it. jaisen mathai and patrick sant
1 Apr 2015 xinmsn — mediacorp and microsoft merged their singapore web presence into one portal in march 2010 and gave it a name that was half mandarin and half american.
Apr 2015 Piperlime — gap needed something that looked like a startup, so in 2006 it made one up: a name with no meaning attached to a shoe shop with no shelves, fronted by
Apr 2015 EZTV — eztv started in may 2005 as a volunteer television release group and spent ten years as the default place a new episode showed up first. it carried no
Apr 2015 Tech Support Comedy — a denial of service attack took techcomedy.com down in april 2015 and it never came back up. fifteen years of helpdesk workers writing down what custo
Apr 2015 CoralCDN — michael freedman built a content distribution network at nyu, put it on planetlab in march 2004, and let anyone on earth use it for free by typing nin
1 Apr 2015 Nebula, Inc. — the market was not there yet and the company said so on its way out the door. nebula was founded in march 2011 by chris kemp, former cto of nasa ames
1 Apr 2015 Wiki Spot — the people who built davis wiki, a town encyclopedia for davis, california, decided in 2006 that every town should have one and started giving the hos
8 Apr 2015 Aperture — aperture launched in november 2005 as apple's pro answer to adobe lightroom before lightroom existed. the price dropped from $499 to $80 over three ve
8 Apr 2015 iPhoto — iphoto launched in january 2002 as the photo half of the digital hub strategy that itunes had started for music. for thirteen years it was the default
9 Apr 2015 FriendFeed — the social aggregator that pulled together your activity from twenty other services (twitter, flickr, last.fm, delicious, blog rss) into one feed. sma
10 Apr 2015 Buttercoin — april 2015 was a bad month to be a small bitcoin exchange. buttercoin had y combinator behind it, google ventures money, alexis ohanian on the cap tab
11 Apr 2015 LayerVault — allan grinshtein and kelly sutton raised 535,000 dollars in august 2012 to give photoshop files a version history, something designers had asked for r
13 Apr 2015 Yandex.Zakladki — fewer than two thousand people a day were still opening it at the end. yandex launched zakladki in june 2000 as the first russian service for keeping
13 Apr 2015 Amazing Alex — rovio spent 2012 trying to show it was a studio rather than a single hit, and amazing alex was the attempt. it reviewed decently, sold reasonably, and
Apr 2015 Carpooling.com — carpooling.com started as a student project at TU munich in 2001 under the name mitfahrgelegenheit.de. by 2012 it was moving a million people a month
16 Apr 2015 2K Australia — take-two closed its canberra studio on 16 april 2015 and 58 people lost their jobs the same day. it had opened in 2000 as irrational games australia u
20 Apr 2015 Google Helpouts — google helpouts was a marketplace that connected paying users with experts for live video consultations through a hangout. it launched in november 201
20 Apr 2015 Google OpenID 2.0 — tom hughes opened the bug on 11 february 2015 with a title that was also the whole story: google is removing openid 2.0 support on 20th april. thousan
23 Apr 2015 JARING — kuala lumpur got its first connection to the rest of the internet in 1992 over a 64 kbps satellite circuit to stockton, california, and the thing on t
28 Apr 2015 Timbuktu — the email went out on 28 april 2015 and gave customers ninety days to buy a last copy. timbuktu had been letting one macintosh drive another since the
28 Apr 2015 Terra Nova — edward castronova, julian dibbell, dan hunter and greg lastowka started a blog about virtual worlds on 11 september 2003, back when the serious open q
29 Apr 2015 Secret — secret launched on january 30, 2014 from san francisco. david byttow and chrys bader-wechseler raised $34.6 million in fifteen months and shipped an a
30 Apr 2015 FrontierVille — frontierville was the second huge zynga hit after farmville. it launched june 9, 2010 with american-frontier theming, lead designer brian reynolds at
30 Apr 2015 Grooveshark — free music streaming, before spotify made it legal. you searched, found almost any song, played it for free. the catalog was built from user uploads.
30 Apr 2015 OnLive — onlive was the right idea five years too early. the network it needed did not exist outside a handful of us metros, and even there the latency was a c
30 Apr 2015 CityVille — cityville was zynga at its absolute peak. launched on facebook december 2 2010, it grew faster than any app the platform had hosted to that point. by
30 Apr 2015 Kalahari.com — naspers pointed a bookshop at an entire country in 1998 and named it after the largest desert on the continent, because amazon had already taken the l
30 Apr 2015 Moskva.FM — moscow's fm band had about fifty stations on it and moskva.fm recorded all of them at once, continuously, then ran song recognition over the tape so y
30 Apr 2015 Hiveminder — on 4 july 2006 jesse vincent offered five beta accounts to the first five people who commented on his blog, and that was how hiveminder started. best
1 May 2015 Simfy — simfy was the german answer to spotify from may 2010 to may 2015. it operated in dach only, never got the funding to keep up with major-label advances
May 2015 Yandex.Kit — 19 february 2014 is world whale day, and yandex picked it to release an android with no google inside it. кит means whale in russian and kit means a c
May 2015 IBM OfficeVision — lotus notes killed officevision, and ibm bought lotus in 1995 partly so that it could. underneath the brand was profs, the mainframe office system ibm
1 May 2015 RSS Graffiti — sixteen point four million dollars, mostly in cash, bought demand media a facebook autoposter in august 2011. four years later the same product was pu
5 May 2015 oDesk — odysseas tsatalos and stratis karamanlakis launched odesk in 2003 out of silicon valley as a remote-work bidding board with built-in time tracking. th
5 May 2015 Wattage — a year of development and $250,000 of friends-and-family money went into wattage, and the thing its founder is still complimented on is the pitch deck
7 May 2015 Baidu Space — baidu space (百度空间) was the search company's answer to the profile-network category that renren and qzone were dominating in mid-2000s china. it launch
12 May 2015 Foresight Linux — ten years of chasing gnome upstream ended with one email from michael k. johnson, sent for the foresight linux council late on 11 may 2015 eastern tim
14 May 2015 Samsung Gear Live — june 2014: google put two watches on one stage at i/o and said android ran on wrists now. samsung's lasted eleven months in the store and then went aw
May 2015 Killfrog — in 1999 kevin swearingen started it out of a basement in denver, on a power mac that was already out of date, and named it after his email address. th
17 May 2015 Kids' WB — it died on the same date twice. the saturday morning block ended on 17 may 2008 when the network under it had already been merged away, and kidswb.com
2015 Gazo-ch — on 23 may 2007 the police arrested the man who ran the servers rather than the people who had uploaded to them, and japanese image boards began closin
22 May 2015 Mandriva Linux — the linux you put on your computer in the early 2000s if you wanted to leave windows without leaving the desktop. mandrake started in july 1998 out of
28 May 2015 Adobe Photoshop Touch — adobe tried to put photoshop on a tablet four years before the ipad pro existed. the result was a ten-dollar app with seven layers, jagged selection t
31 May 2015 Codehaus — bob mcwhirter registered codehaus.org on 26 february 2003 and turned it into a home for java open-source projects that did not want to live on sourcef
1 Jun 2015 Urbanspoon — the slot-machine restaurant app for the early iphone. founded in 2006 in seattle by three ex-jobster engineers. iac bought it in 2009 and zomato bough
Jun 2015 Playlist.com (ProjectPlaylist) — playlist.com started as projectplaylist in february 2006, a browser-based music site that let anyone build a playlist of tracks linked from anywhere o
Jun 2015 Lucky — lucky was condé nast's shopping magazine for women, launched by kim france in december 2000 as a monthly that treated the newsstand itself as a print
1 Jun 2015 Gitorious — it launched in january 2008, months before github, and it hosted free software the way free software wanted to be hosted, fully open under the agpl. t
Jun 2015 SSL 3.0 — netscape shipped ssl 3.0 in november 1996 to replace a version that had been broken almost immediately, and it worked well enough that the web ran on
1 Jun 2015 Blogilista.fi — twelve thousand three hundred finnish blogs were on it when sanoma bought the thing in 2007, and it had started two years before that as a spin-off fr
Jun 2015 Adblock Edge — 824,411 firefox users had adblock edge installed in may 2015, and the listing they installed it from already carried a line saying the addon would be
2 Jun 2015 OMGTorrent — on a tuesday morning in june 2015 the site simply stopped answering, and it took two days for anyone to publish why. the section de recherche in reims
3 Jun 2015 Branch — small new york conversation tool. you started a thread, invited a handful of people you actually wanted to hear from, the rest could read but not post
3 Jun 2015 SodaHead — jason feffer, who had been vp of operations at myspace in the early years, and his childhood friend michael glazer launched sodahead in 2007 as a poll
5 Jun 2015 The Button — the reddit admin who built this went on to make wordle six years later, and the same instinct is in both: one action per person, no way to buy more of
9 Jun 2015 Pomf.se — "this month a whopping 12 000 unique people used pomf and i made 0$." that line sat on the front page in march 2013, which tells you the whole busines
12 Jun 2015 Umano — dropbox bought the people who built umano on 12 may 2015 and the app was given thirty more days. for the thirty-one months before that, umano paid voi
14 Jun 2015 Friendster — the first social network most americans signed up for. peak around 2003. by 2005 myspace had eaten its lunch. it pivoted to a gaming portal aimed at s
14 Jun 2015 Instacast — instacast was a podcast app for iphone and later the mac, made by the small german studio vemedio. it arrived in 2011, back when apple's own podcast a
24 Jun 2015 Circa News — circa was a mobile-first news app launched in october 2012 by matt galligan and ben huh, with arsenio santos as cto. it broke news stories into atomic
24 Jun 2015 General Sentiment — a letter to shareholders dated 24 june 2015 told them that general sentiment had terminated its half-dozen staff and suspended operations after failin
29 Jun 2015 AfterElton.com — afterelton launched in january 2005 to cover how gay men actually appeared on american television, at a point when that coverage did not exist anywher
30 Jun 2015 Yahoo! Maps — yahoo maps existed for almost twenty years and ended on the same day as yahoo pipes, in a quiet june 2015 announcement. it was a north america driving
30 Jun 2015 Tempo Smart Calendar — iOS-only smart calendar from tempo AI, an sri international spinoff in the same darpa-funded calo lineage that produced siri. launched 13 february 201
30 Jun 2015 BAM-Portal — seventy million records sat behind one search box, and then they did not. bam-portal went online in 2006, built by a consortium of german state librar
30 Jun 2015 Destiny of Spirits — on 25 march 2015, one year and five days after the japanese launch, sony gave the servers a closing date. destiny of spirits was a free vita game that
30 Jun 2015 Internet Public Library — a graduate seminar at the university of michigan put its coursework on the web on 17 march 1995 and called it a public library. for twenty years libra
Jun 2015 PledgeBank — "i'll do it, but only if you'll help" was the entire product, printed under the logo in italics so nobody could miss it. mysociety put it online on 13
30 Jun 2015 ShopLocket — toronto, 2011: katherine hague and andrew louis built an embeddable checkout for people who had exactly one thing to sell, and found their market amon
Jul 2015 Urturn — $13.4 million went into a lausanne startup in may 2013 to build templates that teenagers could drop their own photos into. urturn had already spent tw
Jul 2015 Fotoalbum.hu — in july 2015 a hungarian photo site holding nineteen million pictures stopped answering, and the notice that went up called the problem temporary. the
3 Jul 2015 Wareztuga — for four years the most used streaming site in portugal was an unlicensed one, and for a lot of that time it was not even accepting new members. warez
8 Jul 2015 The Dissolve — the dissolve was a film criticism site that ex-av-club editors launched under pitchfork in 2013. it published long-form reviews of new releases and th
8 Jul 2015 GEMM — a marketplace for second-hand cds and records that went online in 1994, a year before ebay existed, run out of la jolla by roger raffee and jim hall.
8 Jul 2015 Film4oD — fifty pence bought forty-eight hours with a film, which in november 2010 made channel 4's rental shop the cheapest legal way to watch one in britain.
10 Jul 2015 Metroflog — kohali, a small buenos aires operation, launched metroflog in 2006 as a fotolog clone tailored to the spanish-speaking web. one image per day with a g
10 Jul 2015 SoundTracking — steve jang had already helped build imeem when he started schematic labs in 2010, and the app that came out of it in march 2011 did one small thing: i
14 Jul 2015 Need for Speed World — need for speed world took the maps out of most wanted and carbon, put every player on them at the same time, and sold the shortcut. it went fully free
14 Jul 2015 Battlefield Play4Free — battlefield play4free opened as an open beta on 4 april 2011 and never left that label. easy studios in stockholm built it on the battlefield 2 engine
14 Jul 2015 FIFA World — fifa world was ea testing whether ultimate team could stand on its own without a sixty dollar game underneath it. free to play, pc only, aimed at mark
14 Jul 2015 Battlefield Heroes — stockholm built a battlefield game that looked like a saturday cartoon and started from a web page, which in 2009 was a genuinely strange thing to att
14 Jul 2015 Streamus — a twenty-five-year-old in california shipped a chrome extension in february 2014 that turned youtube into a music player with a queue, and three hundr
15 Jul 2015 PlayStation Mobile — playstation mobile was sony's attempt to put a playstation-branded storefront onto android phones and the ps vita at the same time. it launched on oct
15 Jul 2015 Leap Transit — leap wanted to make the city bus feel like a startup office on wheels. refurbished coaches with leather seats and cold-pressed juice ran between san f
15 Jul 2015 Darkode — darkode was a password-protected english-language forum where malware and stolen card numbers changed hands, and europol called it the most prolific o
17 Jul 2015 Geeknet — a stanford graduate student named larry augustin started selling linux workstations in november 1993. the company he built off that changed its name f
21 Jul 2015 Entitle (eReatah) — entitle was the ebook subscription that let you keep the books. two a month for ten dollars, up to four for twenty. launched as ereatah in 2013, rebra
23 Jul 2015 Internet America — internet america sold dial-up in texas from january 1995 and answered the phone on 1-800-be-a-geek. it went public in december 1998 and spent 1999 buy
Jul 2015 Dapper — in 2006 you could drag a box around part of any web page and get back an rss feed the site had never agreed to publish. yahoo bought dapper in october
28 Jul 2015 Adobe FormsCentral — adobe formscentral was adobe's answer to jotform and wufoo, released in 2011 and shut in 2015. it lived inside acrobat xi pro as a companion form-buil
29 Jul 2015 Windows Media Center — windows media center was microsoft's bet that the family TV needed a beige tower with a remote control, an IR blaster, and a tv tuner card from a thir
29 Jul 2015 Microsoft Sound Recorder — the small grey window with a tape-deck slider and a single red record button. it lived in every copy of windows from 3.0 through windows 7, ate sixty
29 Jul 2015 Microsoft ActiveX — activex was microsoft's bet that the web would run binary com components inside internet explorer with full local execution rights. it shipped in 1996
29 Jul 2015 Windows Photo Viewer — the double-click default for a decade and a half on every windows machine. shipped inside windows xp in 2001 as windows picture and fax viewer, rename
29 Jul 2015 WinHelp — before every program's manual lived on somebody's web server, it lived in a .hlp file sitting next to the executable. winhelp arrived with windows 3.0
29 Jul 2015 Windows Easy Transfer — there was a special usb cable for this. microsoft shipped a wizard in vista that packed your documents and your account settings into an archive and u
30 Jul 2015 T-Online — t-online was deutsche telekom's twenty-year attempt to own the german consumer internet from the dial-up up. at 2001 peak it was europe's biggest isp,
30 Jul 2015 Emojli — emojli was a messaging app with one rule taken to its silliest end: everything had to be emoji. your username was emoji and your messages were emoji,
31 Jul 2015 Homejoy — homejoy was an on-demand home cleaning marketplace founded in 2010 in san francisco by adora and aaron cheung, y combinator alumni who pivoted from a
Jul 2015 TeleFragged — telefragged was where the first generation of quake fan sites lived. it opened in 1997 as a hosting network with a daily news page and a hit counter t
31 Jul 2015 .an — the netherlands antilles got two letters in the root zone in 1993 and stopped being a country on 10 october 2010. the domain outlived the state by nea
31 Jul 2015 Kissing Suzy Kolber — mike tunison was the last full-time employee of a blog that had once been six people writing for free, and on 31 july 2015 he published a goodbye and
31 Jul 2015 Swefilmer — roughly a quarter of everything sweden streamed online went through one unlicensed site, and the site was two men and an advertising account. swefilme
1 Aug 2015 Firedoglake — firedoglake started as jane hamsher's blog in december 2004 and turned into something closer to a newsroom. it covered the plame affair well enough to
1 Aug 2015 glbtq.com — a publisher named wik wikholm started the project in 2000 on the theory that the largest encyclopedia of queer culture and history did not exist and s
Aug 2015 Openfilm — a video site for independent film, public from 22 july 2008, that refused to be youtube. submissions were screened before they went up and the stated
Aug 2015 AllVoices — amra tareen was a venture capitalist before she started allvoices in 2008, and it shows in how the thing was built: a wire service where the wire is e
Aug 2015 Indiagames — five people in mumbai in 1999, around 300 by 2009 with offices on three continents. vishal gondal's indiagames made the first spider-man game for mobi
4 Aug 2015 Google Catalogs — google catalogs launched on 16 august 2011 as an ipad app that reproduced the american mail-order catalog on a screen. nordstrom and l.l.bean shipped
9 Aug 2015 Google Flu Trends — google.org launched it in november 2008 on a genuinely good idea: people search for their symptoms before they see a doctor, so the queries arrive abo
12 Aug 2015 Xunlei Kankan — it had one hundred and thirty six million monthly visitors and almost no recognition outside its own country, which is a shape the english-speaking we
12 Aug 2015 Amplify Tablet — rupert murdoch's news corp put something close to a billion dollars into selling technology to american schools, and the amplify tablet was the hardwa
14 Aug 2015 Infinite Crisis — one hundred and forty one days separated the launch of infinite crisis from the day its servers went dark. turbine, the studio behind asheron's call a
15 Aug 2015 Frontback — a photo-sharing gimmick that arrived a year before the front-and-back camera became a native ios feature everyone shared without an app. frontback lau
15 Aug 2015 Google Moderator — google moderator was a box you dropped a question into and a list everyone else voted on, so the best question rose instead of the loudest asker. the
19 Aug 2015 Microsoft Tag — microsoft tag was a higher-density colored-triangle barcode that microsoft research thought could out-compete the qr code. it lost on two fronts: qr c
19 Aug 2015 Geoloqi — amber case and aaron parecki built a platform in portland that let an application know when a phone crossed a line drawn on a map, without flattening
20 Aug 2015 Blip.tv — blip was the video host for the people youtube did not pay yet. independent web series, vodcasts, gaming shows. it ran from 2005 to 2015 with about 50
20 Aug 2015 Molotok.ru — the russian ebay, named for the auctioneer's hammer, opened in december 1999 with a pager sold for eight hundred rubles. at its height it carried fift
20 Aug 2015 Zhuaxia — xu yirong came back from stanford at the end of 2005 and built an rss reader that people in beijing were soon calling a disruptor of the four big chin
24 Aug 2015 Time Cube — gene ray put one page on the web in 1997 and spent eighteen years making it longer. the claim was that each rotation of the earth contains four simult
24 Aug 2015 Şehir Fırsatı — a berlin clone factory started it and chicago closed it. şehir fırsatı launched in april 2010 as citydeal's turkish site, and groupon bought citydeal
25 Aug 2015 Rentboy.com — rentboy was one of the longest-running gay male-escort classifieds sites on the open web, and it died on a summer tuesday in 2015 when homeland securi
26 Aug 2015 Agora — for about a year agora was the largest illegal market on the internet, bigger than silk road ever managed, and it got there mostly by being the one no
27 Aug 2015 Lavaboom — an insolvency filing in cologne ended lavaboom in august 2015, four months after its public beta finally opened. the premise was that lavabit's closur
28 Aug 2015 Sellaband — sellaband let fans put money into a band they believed in, buying "parts" at ten dollars each, and once a band hit fifty thousand dollars it got a rea
Aug 2015 Amazon Fire Phone — amazon fire phone was bezos's bet that he could turn a phone into a shopping terminal and sell it at flagship prices. it shipped on 25 july 2014 as an
Aug 2015 Adobe Edge Reflow — adobe edge reflow was a visual layout tool for responsive web design that let you draw media-query breakpoints on a canvas and watch the layout reflow
31 Aug 2015 Starbright World — on 8 november 1995 four american hospitals switched on a 3d virtual world built so that children with chronic illness could meet each other without le
Sep 2015 Gaikai — gaikai was the cloud gaming startup that david perry founded in november 2008, a year after onlive launched. the pitch was the same as onlive's, strea
Sep 2015 NPAPI — npapi was the netscape plugin api. it shipped in navigator 2.0 in 1995 as the way for plugins to load inside a browser and it stayed the plugin archit
Sep 2015 reQall — reqall started as a phd project about human memory and turned into a voice-note service you could phone. you spoke a task, it came back transcribed an
3 Sep 2015 Face of Mankind — face of mankind was a science-fiction mmo that cared more about roleplay and player politics than about combat. a german studio, duplex systems, built
3 Sep 2015 Cink — nick denton spent five minutes on the phone with szily lászló in september 2015, and that was cink. gawker media's only hungarian outlet had launched
3 Sep 2015 Stypi — google bought etherpad in december 2009, folded it into wave, and open-sourced the leftovers on the way out. eighteen months later jason chen and byro
12 Sep 2015 SublimeVideo — on 26 january 2010 a small swiss company posted a link to a video player demo and the web spent a week arguing about it. jilion turned that demo into
Sep 2015 Looksery — looksery was a face-tracking app out of odesa that could find and reshape your face in a live camera feed, back in 2014 when phones were barely fast e
15 Sep 2015 Clix — the portal half of a portuguese internet provider, opened in october 1999 on free dial-up where the only bill was the phone call. it came with a mailb
22 Sep 2015 Quirky — quirky was ben kaufman's crowdsourced invention platform. you submitted an idea, the community voted on it, and if it passed the bar the quirky team b
24 Sep 2015 Headweb — 24 september 2015 is the day headweb's customers opened an email telling them the website had been replaced by plejmo and their apps had been replaced
26 Sep 2015 This Is My Jam — one song. that was the gimmick. you picked one song from soundcloud or youtube, posted it as your jam, it stayed up for seven days. the founders were
Sep 2015 Cyworld — the south korean social network that nearly every twenty-something in the country used at peak. you got a minihompy, a personal page with a decoratabl
30 Sep 2015 Yahoo Pipes — yahoo's 2007 visual programming tool for wiring web feeds and apis together. you opened the editor in your browser, dragged modules onto a canvas, con
30 Sep 2015 Club Nintendo — club nintendo was the customer-loyalty program that asked you to punch the serial number off every nintendo game and console into a website. you got p
30 Sep 2015 StarBand — before starband, satellite internet meant a dish that could only receive. you downloaded from orbit and uploaded through a modem on the phone line, wh
30 Sep 2015 Evernote Food — chris o'neill took over as evernote's ceo in july 2015 and started cutting almost immediately. food was one of the first out, announced on 26 august a
30 Sep 2015 Timeful — nearly seven million dollars went into an iphone app that read your calendar and worked out when you were actually going to do the things on your list
30 Sep 2015 Mozilla Appmaker — the tool was made of bricks and the bricks were html tags. mozilla's appmaker let somebody who could not write code assemble a working phone app in a
30 Sep 2015 Mozilla Popcorn Maker — brett gaylor, who ran the project, described it in one line: a web page that makes other web pages. mozilla shipped popcorn maker 1.0 at mozfest in lo
30 Sep 2015 Skillfeed — shutterstock spent two years trying to sell lessons instead of pictures. skillfeed opened on 4 june 2013 with ten thousand videos and a nineteen dolla
Oct 2015 GameTap — gametap was the turner broadcasting subscription that streamed classic atari titles and arcade ports to broadband households in north america. blake l
Oct 2015 Gather.com — gather was a boston community for grown-up conversation about news and culture, founded by tom gerace in 2005. its twist was reward points, small cred
Oct 2015 Open Cobalt — the andrew w. mellon foundation and the national science foundation paid for a metaverse that needed no servers at all. julian lombardi and mark p. mc
5 Oct 2015 Hellas Online — athens, 1993: a company starts selling dial-up access to anybody who wants it, which in greece at that point almost nobody does. twenty-two years late
5 Oct 2015 Endaga — in a village in papua, indonesia, a box roughly the size of a microwave oven ran a cellular network that the village itself owned and charged for. end
6 Oct 2015 Mitro — vijay pandurangan, evan jones and adam hilss built a password manager, sold themselves to twitter in july 2014, published the entire codebase on the w
7 Oct 2015 Amazon Music Importer — amazon music importer was a small adobe air desktop application that scanned your local itunes or windows media library and pushed the mp3 and aac fil
8 Oct 2015 Comcast Personal Web Pages — home.comcast.net slash tilde your-username was a real address that millions of american households had and most of them never used. twenty five megaby
9 Oct 2015 HopStop — hopstop was the canonical pre-google-maps-transit app in new york. you typed a from and a to, the site told you which subway line to take, where to wa
10 Oct 2015 Kanbox — kanbox was the closest thing china had to dropbox, founded in beijing in 2011 and carrying more than fifteen million users when alibaba bought it in s
13 Oct 2015 Amazon Destinations — amazon tried to sell you a hotel room for a weekend near home, booked the same way you bought everything else from them. it ran on travel.amazon.com a
15 Oct 2015 XULRunner — mozilla stopped backing xulrunner in july 2015 and shipped the last build, 41.0.2, on 15 october. it was the mozilla platform packaged on its own, so
16 Oct 2015 OneDrive Groups — a shared calendar and fifteen gigabytes of storage held in common by a list of people, launched on 2 december 2008 as windows live groups and renamed
16 Oct 2015 Ticker.tv — 119 west 72nd street in manhattan is the address on the only surviving profile of ticker.tv, a financial video network that opened in december 2014 an
17 Oct 2015 US Airways — flight 1939 left philadelphia on the evening of 16 october 2015 and landed back at the same airport before six the next morning after going around by
22 Oct 2015 Deathswitch — david eagleman wrote a short piece for nature in 2006 about email that fires after you die, and then he went and built it. deathswitch asked you for a
22 Oct 2015 MUZU.TV — a dublin company that tried to be youtube for music videos by doing the licensing first instead of the takedowns later. every video was cleared with a
28 Oct 2015 Socialcam — socialcam was a short mobile video app spun out of the justin.tv ecosystem in 2011, built by michael seibel and two co-founders. it made shooting and
29 Oct 2015 Karaoke Joysound — on 29 october 2015 konami switched off the song servers and a karaoke machine turned back into a plastic microphone. karaoke joysound rented you track
29 Oct 2015 Idea a Day — the last idea ever posted to idea a day was a home furnishings shop called man up, filed on 29 october 2015 under the name becky hamilton. before that
30 Oct 2015 Grantland — grantland was a sports-and-pop-culture site bill simmons founded inside espn in june 2011. simmons brought in a roster of writers that turned it into
30 Oct 2015 YIFY — a computer science student in auckland started compressing movies in 2010 and named the releases after himself. by 2013 yify was the most searched ter
31 Oct 2015 Ukash — skrill bought it, folded it into the austrian competitor it had already bought a year earlier, and the last vouchers stopped working on 31 october 201
31 Oct 2015 Windows Anytime Upgrade — on windows 7 the home premium disc and the ultimate disc held the same files. the difference between the editions was a product key, and windows anyti
Nov 2015 MOLOME — an instagram clone that chose symbian first, which tells you both how ambitious and how stranded it was. one thai computer-engineering graduate built
1 Nov 2015 Crocodoc — crocodoc turned a word file or a pdf into html and svg so it opened in a browser tab with no plugin and no download, which in 2010 was a thing almost
Nov 2015 CNN iReport — ireport was cnn's offer to the audience: send your own footage to the biggest news brand on earth, with no editor standing in the way. it opened in 20
Nov 2015 SingldOut — forty percent of the chemistry of attraction, allegedly, legible from a cheek swab. singldout launched in july 2014 out of california, mailed dna kits
Nov 2015 PerfectMatch.com — pepper schwartz spent thirty years studying how couples actually work and then turned it into a questionnaire, and for about five years that questionn
Nov 2015 Mobile My Life — 1,174,811 registered members and 1,902,832 posts, which is what the counter at the bottom of the front page said in january 2010, by which point the f
Nov 2015 Valleywag — valleywag launched in february 2006 as gawker's tech-industry vertical, edited initially by nick douglas and then through a rotation of owen thomas an
2 Nov 2015 TextSecure — an android app that encrypted your text messages, then stopped caring about text messages and encrypted your internet ones instead. built by moxie mar
8 Nov 2015 Dick Figures — $313,411 came out of a kickstarter so that two animators could make a feature film about two stick men named red and blue, and it worked: the movie sh
11 Nov 2015 Screenr — screenr was a free browser-based screencast tool that ran on a java applet. articulate, the e-learning software company, gave it away as a lead produc
Nov 2015 MTV Iggy — three cable channels died first, switched off together on 30 april 2007, and mtv iggy was the website that replaced them. from october 2008 it ran glo
15 Nov 2015 Wuala — wuala was a swiss encrypted cloud storage service launched in august 2008 by dominik grolimund and luzius meisser out of eth zurich. the early version
18 Nov 2015 Carmen Sandiego — carmen sandiego started in april 1985 as broderbund's first internally developed title and ran for thirty years as a geography-and-history detective f
Nov 2015 Zano — zano was a palm-sized autonomous drone that promised to follow you around and film in hd, all steered from a phone. torquing group raised over 2.3 mil
18 Nov 2015 Mega Filmes HD — cerquilho, in the interior of são paulo state, was where the biggest pirate streaming site in brazil got its mail. marcos cardoso came back from fourt
22 Nov 2015 EverythingMe — thirty-five million dollars bought an android home screen that rearranged itself by the time of day and where you were standing, and never bought a wa
2015 IndexMaster — in 2000 the american association of law libraries handed its best new product of the year award to a website that sold you the index of a book instead
25 Nov 2015 A&P — fifteen thousand seven hundred and nine stores in 1930, selling $2.9 billion of groceries, which made it the largest retailer anywhere. a&p worked out
25 Nov 2015 Sosh — san francisco got a concierge app in 2010 that read like a well-connected friend instead of a directory, and for five years that was worth sixteen mil
27 Nov 2015 Mastertronic — mastertronic worked out in 1983 that a game did not have to be sold in a computer shop, and put cassettes at a pound ninety nine on the same racks as
Nov 2015 Adobe Edge Animate — edge animate was adobe's official answer to "what do you use now that flash is going away." it shipped a preview on august 1 2011 and hit 1.0 in septe
30 Nov 2015 Beats Music — beats music was the streaming service jimmy iovine and dr. dre launched on january 21 2014 from los angeles, with trent reznor as chief creative offic
30 Nov 2015 Soulcalibur: Lost Swords — bandai namco put a soulcalibur on the playstation 3 for free in 2014 and took the other player out of it. every fight was against the computer, and yo
30 Nov 2015 Fanhattan — the remote had no buttons on it, only a touch surface and a shape you could find in the dark, and that remote is the part of fan tv anyone still descr
30 Nov 2015 Pixable — new york, 2009. three mit students built an app that read your facebook photos and worked out which ones you actually wanted to see. singtel paid 26.5
Dec 2015 Cokemachineglow — cokemachineglow was a canadian music criticism site started in 2002 by a rotating group of writers led by scott reid. by 2006 the washington city pape
Dec 2015 Details — details was the new york men's monthly that ran for thirty-three years across two different lives. it launched in 1982 as annie flanders' downtown cul
1 Dec 2015 Docstoc — docstoc opened in october 2007 as somewhere to upload a document and embed it in a blog post, and it filled up with the paperwork of running a small a
Dec 2015 onGamers — cbs interactive hired an esports team in 2013 and put onGamers into beta that november, betting that professional gaming was ready for a properly fund
Dec 2015 Cotonete — portugal's own internet radio, opened in july 2001 by media capital rádios with ten themed stations and a catalog of more than 10,000 songs a listener
Dec 2015 Trove — graham holdings sold the washington post to jeff bezos in 2013 and kept the software department. that department was renamed trove, and it spent two m
Dec 2015 Flytenow — the faa did not fine flytenow or raid it. it wrote a letter. in 2014 the agency's chief counsel decided that a private pilot posting a planned trip on
4 Dec 2015 Hawaii Health Connector — two hundred and five million dollars in federal grants went into hawaii's own health insurance exchange and about one hundred and thirty million of it
7 Dec 2015 Zite — zite was the personalized news reader that learned what you read and adjusted what it showed you. it shipped on the ipad in march 2011, cnn bought it
7 Dec 2015 Facebook Slingshot — slingshot was facebook's second swing at snapchat after the 2013 poke flop. the hook was reciprocity, a sling sat locked on your screen until you sent
7 Dec 2015 Fuhu — 158,957 percent of three-year growth put this company at number one on the inc. 500 in 2013, and it went back to number one in 2014. the nabi was an a
7 Dec 2015 Facebook Riff — eight months, start to finish, and no update in between. riff shipped on 1 april 2015 as a facebook app for making one video out of many people: you s
10 Dec 2015 MUZ.RU — six million dollars bought a catalog of more than a million licensed tracks, deals with universal, sony, warner and emi, and a place inside windows me
2015 YasakTube — turkey blocked youtube on 5 may 2008. four months later a site opened calling itself yasaktube, which translates as bannedtube, and spent two years re
14 Dec 2015 Opera Link — opera link made its desktop debut with opera 9.5 on 12 june 2008 and kept your bookmarks and speed dial identical across every copy of opera you were
15 Dec 2015 Topsy — topsy labs spent eight years indexing every public tweet on the planet. it sold itself to apple for around two hundred and twenty-five million dollars
15 Dec 2015 Metaio — metaio was the munich augmented-reality spinoff from the technical university of munich, founded in 2003. the company licensed an ar software developm
15 Dec 2015 Answerbag — answerbag was one of the first english-language q&a sites, founded 2003 by joel downs. demand media bought it for three million dollars in 2006 as par
18 Dec 2015 Amazon Local — amazon local was amazon's four-year attempt at the daily-deals business, launched in june 2011 first as a livingsocial-powered coupon feed and then as
20 Dec 2015 Prismatic — prismatic was a personalized news reader built by bradford cross and aria haghighi, founded in 2010 and opened to the public in june 2012. instead of
22 Dec 2015 Rdio — the prettiest music streaming service of the early 2010s. founded by the skype co-founders. great design. paid model. real curation. lost to spotify o
22 Dec 2015 Stratos Card — stratos was the ann arbor bluetooth smart card founded in 2012 by thiago olson and chris bartenstein. across three funding rounds it raised about $6.6
23 Dec 2015 Facebook Rooms — facebook rooms launched in october 2014 out of the creative labs incubator. it let anyone start a topic room with a pseudonym, invite via qr code, and
27 Dec 2015 Tianji — derek ling started tianji in 2005 to be the place chinese professionals kept their careers, and for a while the numbers said it was working. hundreds
30 Dec 2015 Carrier IQ — 150 million handsets carried it and almost none of their owners knew the name until a connecticut android developer filmed it logging his keystrokes i
30 Dec 2015 Nodejitsu — forever and node-http-proxy came out of this company and are still sitting in node projects today. nodejitsu was the first platform as a service for n
2015 Faceparty — faceparty was the british answer to the youth social network, four years before myspace. it claimed about six million accounts at peak. in may 2008 it
2015 Forum signatures — the animated banners, glittery name renders, custom anime characters, and long quote collections that hung at the bottom of every forum post from 1998
Dec 2015 MessageMe — messageme launched march 12, 2013 from a san francisco team of four founders. it reached one million users in ten days and five million in seventy fiv
31 Dec 2015 Pulse News — pulse was a stanford class project that became one of the most-downloaded news apps of the early ipad era. steve jobs named it on stage at wwdc 2010 f
Dec 2015 Word Lens — word lens was the augmented reality demo that turned every iphone owner into a tourist in 2011. you pointed the camera at a spanish menu and the app r
2015 HP TouchSmart — hp's touchsmart line started at ces 2007 with the iq770, a 19-inch all-in-one desktop you were supposed to poke at like a kiosk. it ran windows vista
2015 iBibo — ibibo launched in january 2007 in gurgaon as an indian social network funded by naspers, the south african media group. ashish kashyap built it as the
2015 Yfrog — the imageshack-run twitter photo host, launched february 2009, dead by the end of 2015. peaked at about 29% of twitter photo-sharing in 2011 with a ye
31 Dec 2015 Sidecar — sidecar was the original peer-to-peer rideshare app. sunil paul founded it in september 2011 with jahan khanna and adrian fortino, shipped before uber
2015 MAIET Entertainment — maiet was a seoul studio of five people that grew into the maker of gunz: the duel, a third person shooter whose players found animation cancels in th
2015 Nokia Xpress — ninety percent was the number nokia printed on the box. xpress browser did not fetch a web page to your phone, it fetched the page to a nokia server a
2015 OpenFoundry — the ministry of science and technology funded openfoundry on three-year cycles, and in january 2015 it decided to move the money somewhere else. that
2015 Woogi World — a non-profit called children's way built a browser world in 2008 whose entire reason for existing was to teach eight year olds how to behave on the in
31 Dec 2015 The Witcher Battle Arena — eleven months is how long cd projekt red stayed in the mobile moba business. the witcher battle arena shipped on android and ios on 22 january 2015 wi
2015 Blue Hampshire — ten thousand posts and a hundred thousand comments about the politics of one small state, which carried nationally because that state votes first. blu
31 Dec 2015 Reference Manager — two beutlers wrote it in 1982, a hematologist and his son, and it shipped for cp/m before most researchers had a hard disk. thomson bought their compa
31 Dec 2015 The Dead Authors Podcast — paul f. tompkins ran it in character as h. g. wells, hauling dead writers out of a time machine once a month on a stage in los angeles, and the money
2015 CyberFight.ru — asus walked away in july 2012, and it took with it the one thing cyberfight.ru had that no competitor could copy: a quarterly tournament with a real s
31 Dec 2015 Shutdownify — on 19 august 2015 a company appeared offering startups a dignified way to announce that they were closing. the only page it ever served was the announ

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