http://technologizer.com/2009/04/23/whatever-happened-to-the-top-15-properties-of-april-1999/
Sunday, April 26, 2009
A Decade Ago...
Some of these company names may mean nothing to you, but it speaks to how quickly things are evolving. Many of these top 15 companies were search engines that competed for our business. Google won...The rest that still matter have e-mail services attached. Did anything on the 1999 list surprise you? Any thoughts that which companies on the current list willl slide and why? I think lists like these remind me to never hitch my horse to one internet idea since capitalism eats so many of these projects for dinner.
http://technologizer.com/2009/04/23/whatever-happened-to-the-top-15-properties-of-april-1999/
http://technologizer.com/2009/04/23/whatever-happened-to-the-top-15-properties-of-april-1999/
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This article reminded me of an episode on VH1, it gave a little information about each site and mentioned how active it is and what rank it is. I was interested in the Blue Mountain site, I liked that it had electronical cards you can send. The most common is google which is no surprise as everyone knows google, actually if someone asks me a question and I don't know I say google it! people use wikipedia alot too. It is amazing to see how quickly facebook has came to popularity. After reading the comments i agree with Bob that it is important to have a varity of sources to recieve information from. I never realized that capitalism can effect so many different aspects,of course it surrounds our institutions but it is even altering out technology.
ReplyDeleteI keep thinking back to that youtube video of Mark Zuckerberg when he said something to the extent of "Facebook will never go away, it will just evolve". I think that just like with what happened to MySpace, something better will come along and Facebook will become old news. People won't even want to be associated with the name FB if a "cooler" site exists. I actually got my first FB spam message in my inbox today. Sad day. Hopefully it's not headed down the same spam-filled, cheap looking path that MySpace went down.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the others on the 2005 list, I think that most of them are such empires that they will continue to buy up the newest, trendiest sites and maintain pretty constant positions on the top 15 list.