Died in 2016

15 projects

Yahoo Screen Yahoo's video hub, home of the SNL archive, Community season six and a $42 million write-down, closed in January 2016 2011–2016 Video & Streaming Google Code Google's free host for open source projects, killed by GitHub and by the spammers who moved in when everyone else left 2006–2016 Developer Tools Songza Playlists for the moment you were in, picked by people rather than an algorithm, until Google bought it and melted it into Play Music 2011–2016 Music Streaming Mailbox The email app with the famous reservation queue, bought by Dropbox for about $100 million and shut down three years later 2013–2016 Email & Groups Skype Qik The live phone-video pioneer Skype paid $150 million for, shut down, relaunched as a messaging app, and shut down again 2007–2016 Mobile Apps Picasa Everyone's first photo library 2002–2016 Photo Sharing iMesh Settled, went legal, outlived everyone, left without a word 1999–2016 File Sharing Firefox OS The web as an operating system, aimed at $25 phones 2013–2016 Operating Systems Project Ara Google's modular phone, demoed for three years and never sold 2013–2016 Gadgets & Hardware Sunrise Calendar The calendar app everyone recommended, bought by Microsoft for about $100 million and dismantled into Outlook 2013–2016 Mobile Apps Google Nexus Android the way Google meant it, until Google wanted the whole phone 2010–2016 Phones & Tablets Meerkat The live streaming app that owned SXSW 2015 until Twitter bought Periscope and cut off its friend graph 2015–2016 Video & Streaming Panoramio The Spanish photo map Google bought for Google Earth and closed a decade later, taking millions of geotagged pictures off the map 2005–2016 Photo Sharing What.CD The best music library ever built, erased in an afternoon 2007–2016 File Sharing Yo An app that said one word, raised a million dollars, and became the whole 2014 app economy in miniature 2014–2016 Mobile Apps