Died in 2013

16 projects

Seesmic Loic Le Meur's video Twitter that became a Twitter client that became a Salesforce app and was finally sold to HootSuite for its users 2007–2013 Social Networks Audiogalaxy Killed by a filter it agreed to install itself 1998–2013 File Sharing Formspring Ask me anything, anonymously: the Q and A site that reached 30 million accounts, then drowned in the harassment its own anonymity produced 2009–2013 Social Networks Posterous Blogging by sending an email, bought and switched off 2008–2013 Blogging & Web Publishing Google Reader The web, in one place 2005–2013 Web Technologies & Tools AltaVista Search, before Google 1995–2013 Search Engines & Directories Astrid The to-do app with the friendly squid, four million users, bought by Yahoo and closed 96 days later 2008–2013 Mobile Apps Bebo The $850 million write-off 2005–2013 Social Networks Google Latitude See where your friends are on a map: Google's location sharing, four years ahead of its time and folded into Google+ in 2013 2009–2013 Mobile Apps MSN TV WebTV: the internet on your television through a set-top box, bought by Microsoft in 1997, switched off in 2013 1996–2013 Online Services isoHunt One man, seven years of litigation, $110 million 2003–2013 File Sharing iGoogle Your homepage, back when you had one 2005–2013 Web Technologies & Tools Sparrow The mail app people happily paid for, bought by Google and left to rot in the App Store 2011–2013 Email & Groups Turntable.fm The site where strangers took turns DJing to a room of cartoon avatars, killed in 2013 by the price of the music it played 2011–2013 Music Streaming Everpix The photo service that solved the problem everyone had and ran out of money anyway, and then published its entire post-mortem for others to learn from 2011–2013 Photo Sharing Winamp It really whips the llama's ass 1997–2013 Media Players