Died in 2012

19 projects

Kazaa The post-Napster free-for-all 2001–2012 File Sharing Loopt Sam Altman's first company: see where your friends are, years before phones could 2006–2012 Mobile Apps Google Health Google tried to be the place you kept your medical records, found that almost nobody wanted one, and closed it in 2012 2008–2012 Online Services Jaiku A month older than Twitter, bought by Google, shelved 2006–2012 Social Networks Megaupload The file locker the FBI took down 2005–2012 File Sharing Gowalla The prettier check-in app from Austin that lost the SXSW war to Foursquare, was bought by Facebook for its team and switched off three months later 2009–2012 Mobile Apps Picnik The photo editor in your browser, bought by Google and closed two years later 2007–2012 Photo Sharing Google Wave Email, reinvented too hard 2009–2012 Web Technologies & Tools Knol Google's signed, ad-sharing answer to Wikipedia, opened in 2008 and closed in 2012 2008–2012 Reference & Learning Windows Mobile A tiny Windows with a Start button, reset to zero by its own maker 2000–2012 Operating Systems Xperia Play The PlayStation phone: a slide-out gamepad on an Android handset, one model, one year, no Android 4.0 2011–2012 Phones & Tablets MobileMe The Apple service Steve Jobs apologised for 2008–2012 Online Services Meebo Every messenger, in one browser tab 2005–2012 Messengers Digg The front page of the web, until v4 2004–2012 Social Networks MeeGo Nokia and Intel's Linux phone, abandoned the year its best device shipped 2010–2012 Operating Systems Google Notebook Clip text and links from the web into online notebooks, from a 2006 browser extension to a 2012 export into Docs 2006–2012 Online Services Google Video Google's own YouTube, made redundant the day Google bought YouTube 2005–2012 Video & Streaming iTunes Ping Apple built a social network inside iTunes, launched it without Facebook and without the songs, and closed it after two years of silence 2010–2012 Social Networks Color Forty-one million dollars before launch, an app nobody understood, and a shutdown within two years: the cautionary tale of the 2011 app boom 2011–2012 Mobile Apps