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2000-2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
• Satellite-based digital audio radio services begin to grow with the launch of XM rad10
• Wikipedia is launched and becomes a major collaborative resource
• f1pple's iPod is jntmduced
• Microsoft Xbox introduced, beginning competition with Sony's Playstation
• Friendster, an early social networking site, is founded; MySpace (2003) and Fact>book
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• The~BLaCkberrYismartphone is introduced, supporting web browsing, texting. and t:>-mclll\:
the iPhone (2007) later becomes a market leader
• Popularity of web logs-blogs-continues to grow
• The term Web 2.0, coined in 1999, is increasingly used as a shorthand term to refN to
different web applications that facilitate user interaction, collaboration, and inform.1t10n
sharing
• Skype peer-to-peer Internet telephone network is introduced
• Flickr photo sharing site is launched
• Podcasts become more popular and easier to find and download
• FCC encourages fiber-optic broadband networks
• Google launches project to digitize millions of books
• You Tube. a video pnstjng website_ is frl"n~ed
• First Sony e-book reader is introduced, followed by Kindle (1007) and others
• First of the simple Flip video cameras is introduced
• Twjtter microbloggiog service is f.o..u.rtd.e.Q
2007
• The combination of easy-to-use video cameras, video sharing sites, and growth of \oc~o~t
networking contributes to the rise of viral videos
• Hulu website launched to stream commercial television programs and movie!o
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2008
• Google announces initiative to digitize old newspaper archives
2009
2010
• Social networking sites reach new peak of popularity
• Apple's iPad helps spark revival in the dormant tablet computer market
Sources: Crowley and Heyer (1991); Rogers (1986); Jost (1994a); Shedden (2010); and media account~.