Date (Launched)

Product

August 2003

MySpace

Description Once the go-to networking hub for teenagers and bands, the sites interface suddenly looked fussy and outdated once Facebooks pared-down site hit the mainstream in 2008.

February 2005

YouTube

Apri 2006

HD DVD

November 2006

Microsoft Zune

January 2007

Windows Vista

July 2008

MobileMe

October 2008

Spotify

May 2009

Google Wave

June 2009

Quora

2009 Twitter

February 2010

Google Buzz

Why it Failed By the end of 2011 users had plummeted by more than half from 54.3m to 24.9m, looking increasingly pitiful as Facebook approaches 1bn global users. But is it necessarily game over? While YouTube is seen as leading the challenge against YouTube is a video-sharing website, on which users traditional media companies, the company itself is struggling can upload, view and share videos. to profit from its digital popularity. Sony did a better job convincing major film studios to release high definition editions of movies for Blu-ray. Analysts HD DVD was one of two formats for high definition believe that when Sony got Warner Brothers to adopt BluDVDs. The other format was Blu-ray. ray exclusively, it won the battle against HD DVD. Zune was a digital media player software for Windows machines, a music subscription service Microsoft, which had access to as much hardware known as a 'Zune Music Pass', music and video development expertise as any company in the world and the streaming services for the Xbox 360 game console capital to support a massive marketing budget for new via the Zune Software, music, TV and movie sales, products failed completely in its attempt to get a large part of and the media software for Windows Phone. the iPod market. Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations by Microsoft for use on personal Apple successfully demonized Vista, Windows XP is too computers, including home and business desktops, entrenched, There wasn't supposed to be a Vista, It broke laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs too much stuff. Designed to enable the remote access and MobileMe could not recover from a miserable debut, management of email, contacts, calendar, photos, performance remained uneven over time, The name failed to and files. resonate, was too expensive. Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service offering digitally restricted streaming of selected Spotify was launched in the USA on 14 July 2011, in music from a range of major and independent record Germany on 13 March 2012, and in Australia and New labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, Zealand on 22 May 2012 excluding away a big chunk of its and Universal. audience early on. Product Schizophrenia - lack of a coherent product definition UI Complexity - uhm... did you consider asking non-geeks for feedback? Platform Complexity - way too many aspects for a small a web-based computing platform and team to support communications protocol designed to merge key Community - the open sourcing process has been slow and features of communications media such as email, painful instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. Federation - or lack thereof Two reasons. First, we already have a site like that Yahoo Answers. Yes, Yahoo Answers is a haven for teenagers A question and answer site, Quora was supposed to asking for homework help, but there are plenty of legitimate build up a foundation of knowledge. You could ask questions, too. And second, a user can get their answer and answer questions, vote for the best answer, better and faster through Google, friends on twitter or choose your areas of expertise, and follow people. Facebook, or emailing a friend. Twitter didn't capitalize on their massive adoption increase Twitter is an online social networking service and and sell. Worse yet, they didn't buy. Twitter features were microblogging service that enables its users to send unsuccessful in comparison to original third-party designs. and read text-based messages of up to 140 Consistently experiencing downtime at a level that is characters, known as "tweets". unacceptable for any major web app. A social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Google and integrated Having decided to abandon Google Wave, the world's into their web-based email program, Gmail users favourite search engine decided to pursue Google Buzz; it could share links, photos, videos, status messages was a service that allowed people to follow you and see and comments organized in "conversations" and status updates, a la Twitter but it was something that never visible in the user's inbox. really caught on, and was soon forgotten.

Status MySpace is now attempting to do what it should have done five years ago as it restructures itself around its greatest differentiator: music.

First Tweets

@biz Listening to some guy reading an article sarcastically out loud about myspace on the train Mar 23, 19:28 2006 @noah posting biz stone vid on youtube. funny Google bought YouTube and started everytime. remembering that livia laughs at BO. showing advertising and partnerships. Mar 25, 19:05 2006

Discontinued. Lost against Blu-ray.

In October 2011, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of all Zune hardware, encouraging users to @Mike_FTW I got a brown Zune!!! Nov 10, 18:17 transition to Windows Phone. 2006 @amiantos Playing around with Vista RC1. Kinda nifty. See no reason to switch from XP though. Sep 11, 03:02 2006

Dead. Succeeded by Windows 7 Dead. Transformed tools through to iCloud.

As of May 2012, the service is available in 16 major countries.

@citizenspace We were just visited by some nice Swedes from Spotify.com. Apr 3, 18:05 2007

Discontinued.

Still around, may linger in purgatory for years, but the future does not look bright.

@jeremy Having a twitter just now. Mar 21, 16:03 2006

June 2010

iPhone 4 'Antennagate'

September 2010

iTunes Ping

Discontinued December 15, 2011 July 16, 2010, at a press conference, Steve Jobs announced that Apple Shortly after the iPhone 4 was launched, some consumers would provide all iPhone 4 owners reported that signal strength of the phone was reduced when with a free case to help solve the The iPhone 4 is a touchscreen slate 3G smartphone touching the lower left edge of the phone, bridging one of the antenna issue and a refund to those developed by Apple Inc. It is the fourth generation two locations which separates the two antennas, resulting in users who had already purchased a iPhone, and successor to the iPhone 3GS. dropped calls in some areas with lower signal reception. Bumper. The idea of integrating a mini-social network inside iTunes is a nice idea, but does anyone actually use it as it was A software-based, music-oriented social networking intended to be used? There isn't any integration with and recommender system service developed and Facebook, and Ping is just another way for Apple to make operated by Apple. even more money out of you. Still active.

Death. 2011

Palm

January 2010

3-D TV

April 2010

Facebook Privacy

March 2010

JooJoo

January 2010

HTC Nexus One

September 2010

Playstation Move

Palm (PALM) produced both a portable wireless device and an operating system for portable hardware devices and desktops. 3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, 2Dplus-depth, or any other form of 3D display. Facebook collects as much data from its visitors as Google and Microsoft. The security team began expanding its efforts to reduce the risks to users' privacy, but privacy concerns remain. A Linux-based tablet computer. Originally, Fusion Garage was working with Michael Arrington to release it as the CrunchPad, but in November 2009 Fusion Garage informed Arrington it would be selling the product alone. Arrington has responded by filing a lawsuit against Fusion Garage. Google's flagship smartphone manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corporation. Uses the Android open source mobile operating system. Features of the phone include the ability to transcribe voice to text, an additional microphone for dynamic noise suppression, and voice guided turn-by-turn navigation to drivers. PlayStation Move is a motion-sensing game controller platform for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). Based around a handheld motion controller wand, PlayStation Move uses the PlayStation Eye camera to track the wand's position, and inertial sensors in the wand to detect its motion. a Canadian telecommunication and wireless equipment company best known as the developer of the BlackBerry smartphone.

Palm couldn't find the formula for over-the-air synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, which business users demand and RIM nailed with its BlackBerry device. Palm also suffered from multiple product delays. After being all the buzz at the trend-making Consumer Electronics Show in January, 3-D television didn't do much of anything this year.

Discontinued. Bought by HP.

Still active.

Roughly half-billion users on the site got really miffed when a Still active. With a few folks actually handful of privacy bugs, among other things, made private left on a protester-created "Quit chat conversations briefly visible to Facebook friends. Facebook Day." Unfortunately, the ill-fated device launched within days of the iPad. In November 2010, Fusion Garage pulled the plug on this oncepromising tablet.

"The entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication." Thus, Fusion Garage took the reigns, and the CrunchPad became the JooJoo.

Google's bold marketing idea to sidestep wireless carriers and sell the Nexus One directly to consumers, who could then choose their own carrier. Advertisements for the device were comparatively scant from carriers, as well as from Google. Despite strong enough reviews, the Nexus One failed to make a lasting impression. Still active.

2011 RIM

February 2011

HP TouchPad

February 2011

Motorolla Xoom

April 2011

Blackberry Playbook

April 2011

Playstation Network Outage

The HP TouchPad is a touchscreen tablet that runs HP webOS, which has several notable features. The TouchPad uses card multitasking found in Palm Pre phones. Android-based tablet computer by Motorola, introduced at CES 2011 on January 5, 2011. It was the first tablet to be sold with Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The BlackBerry PlayBook is a tablet computer made by RIM. The PlayBook is the first device to run BlackBerry Tablet OS, based on QNX Neutrino, and runs apps developed using Adobe AIR. An online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service provided/run by Sony Computer Entertainment for use with the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita video game consoles.

Sony hadnt done a good enough job supporting the hardware with quality titles, and suggested that the PlayStation Move hardware is best relegated to the causal market. It suffered a three-day service outage caused by a backlog of email, and it fiddled while Rome burned. Millions of people, many of them enterprise customers, had no mobile service for three days. The TouchPad's hardware was flawed. It didn't sell. Retailers were sitting on hundreds of thousands of them. Before long, citing the crushing reality of the "tablet effect", then-CEO Lo Apotheker announced that HP was axing the webOS hardware. Of course, TouchPads sold like hotcakes shortly thereafter... when they were marked down to $99. Though the device offered promising features. Motorola managed to ship only 100,000 Xooms in the third quarter of 2011. Honeycomb, for one, was labeled "unstable" and "incomplete". The price was also a deterrent PlayBook developers excluded apps for email, contacts and calendars. Popular apps for social networking and entertainment, such as Facebook and 'Angry Birds,' were also absent from the tablet at launch.

Still active.

The outage cost RIM $50 million in lost sales. 49 days after the TouchPad was launched in the United States, Hewlett-Packard announced that it would discontinue all current hardware devices running webOS

Still active. Selling refurbished only. Still active. RIM said in early December that it lost $485 million due to unsold PlayBooks.

April 2011

Flip Cam

March 2011

Niintendo 3DS

August 2011

Facebook Places

Mini video-recording device by Cisco. A portable game console. The autostereoscopic device is able to project stereoscopic 3D effects without the use of 3D glasses or any additional accessories. It is a feature that lets users "check in" to Facebook using a mobile device to let a user's friends know where they are at the moment.[85] This feature is already known from Foursquare, a social network where users share their geolocation data via mobile phones.

Sony Playstation Network experienced a massive data breach that forced the company to shut down the cloudbased platform for nearly a month in order to fix the security issues. Active. Fixed issue. Cisco's plan to restructure the company involved the shut down of several of its businesses and let go of 550 employees. As well as smartphones making mini video cameras obsolete, sales of such cameras. Discontinued. Lackluster sales in part to the device's high price tag and a limited selection of 3D games. In October, the Japanese game-maker said it would post its first annual loss in three decades. Still active. Cheaper price. Discontinued. Facebook bough Gowalla instead. Though Places as a service flopped, Facebook began Was a huge privacy concern & unavailable at some offering more location-tagging options locations. The check-in service survived only by the roughly for wall posts, photos and status 30 million people who actually used it. updates.