Died in 2011

14 projects

Microsoft Kin Dead in 48 days 2010–2011 Phones & Tablets Windows Live Spaces 30 million blogs, and Microsoft expected 1% to move 2004–2011 Blogging & Web Publishing Floppy disk Forty years of the disk everyone saved to, from the IBM 8-inch to the last 3.5-inch Sony boxes in 2011 1971–2011 Storage & Media Formats Flock The social web browser: Firefox, then Chromium, with Facebook and Twitter in the sidebar, bought by Zynga and closed in 2011 2005–2011 Web Browsers T-Mobile Sidekick The swivel-screen phone whose life lived on Danger's servers, and died with them 2002–2011 Phones & Tablets HP TouchPad Killed 49 days after launch 2011–2011 Phones & Tablets Palm Pre The comeback phone that invented the card interface and could not save Palm 2009–2011 Phones & Tablets Revver The first video site that paid the people who made the videos, sold to a company that stopped paying them 2005–2011 Video & Streaming Aardvark Ask a question over instant messenger and a friend of a friend who actually knew the answer wrote back within minutes, until Google bought it and put it on the spring-cleaning list 2009–2011 Search Engines & Directories Google Desktop Google search for your own hard drive, plus a sidebar of gadgets, retired when the cloud made it pointless 2004–2011 Desktop Software Google Gears Made the web work offline, then handed the idea to HTML5 2007–2011 Developer Tools Google Sidewiki A comment box Google bolted onto every website in the world, whether the owner wanted it or not 2009–2011 Online Services Google Buzz The launch that put Google under 20 years of privacy audits 2010–2011 Social Networks Star Wars Galaxies The Star Wars MMO its players never forgave for the New Game Enhancements 2003–2011 Games