Died in 2015
17 projects
Ovi
Nokia's "door" to internet services, an app store, maps, mail and music brand for the Symbian years, dropped in 2011 and closed for good in 2015
2007–2015
Online Services
PlayStation Home
Sony's empty metaverse, fifteen years early
2008–2015
Game Platforms & Services
FriendFeed
The feed that taught Facebook to Like
2007–2015
Social Networks
Aperture
Apple's professional photo manager, the first of its kind, dropped for Photos and finally unable to launch
2005–2015
Desktop Software
Grooveshark
All the music, none of the licences
2007–2015
Music Streaming
OnLive
Cloud gaming, a decade too early
2010–2015
Game Platforms & Services
Secret
Anonymous confessions from your own contacts, worth $100 million for about a year
2014–2015
Mobile Apps
Xfire
The gamer's buddy list
2004–2015
Game Platforms & Services
Friendster
The social network that came first
2002–2015
Social Networks
Windows Media Center
The living-room PC that arrived before streaming
2002–2015
Media Players
Emojli
The social network where your username and every message had to be emoji, built as a joke, closed eleven months later
2014–2015
Social Networks
Blip
Where web series lived before YouTube channels, bought by Maker Studios and deleted a year later
2005–2015
Video & Streaming
Amazon Fire Phone
Amazon's 3D phone, $199 in July, 99 cents by September, $170 million written off by October
2014–2015
Phones & Tablets
Yahoo! Pipes
Visual programming for the web, twelve years before it was fashionable
2007–2015
Developer Tools
Zune
Microsoft's answer to the iPod, five years late
2006–2015
Gadgets & Hardware
Beats Music
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine's curated streaming service, bought by Apple after four months and folded into Apple Music
2014–2015
Music Streaming
Rdio
The prettiest streaming service that ever lost
2010–2015
Music Streaming