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EPIC 2015, the updated version of the flash movie, EPIC 2014, is released by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson in Jan. 2005. -
- “Chill, blogophiles; you’re not the first to do what you’re doing.”
USA Today, Jan. 26, 2005. - “Personal Radio Via Podcasting Grows More Popular.”
NPR, Jan. 31, 2005. - More than six million people, or 5% of all Internet users, use RSS feeds to get some of their news and classified listings. 27% of Internet users say they read blogs. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project)
- YouTube is founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim on Feb. 15, 2005.
- “Microsoft @ 30.” History Timeline, Microsoft, 2005.
- “A short history of blogging.”
The Blog Herald, March 6, 2005. - Chicagocrime.org, one of the original map mashups, is started by Adrian Holovaty in May 2005. (See also: “In memory of chicagocrime.org.” Adrian Holovaty.com, January 31, 2008.)
- As of early 2005, Craigslist features more than 120 city Web pages around the world. An estimated five million people place classified ads a month. (Source: Presstime/Craigslist)
- On April 23, 2005 the first YouTube video is uploaded to the site. (See also: “YouTube’s First Video Uploaded Five Years Ago Today.” Stan Schroeder, Mashable, Apr. 23, 2010.)
- 33% of regular Internet users ages 18 to 34 prefer getting their news online. (Source:Â Presstime/Jupitermedia)
- The aggregated blog and news Web site, the Huffington Post, is founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti. (Related: “Dazzle, Yes. But Can They Blog? For Arianna Huffington, The Stars Come Out to Post.” Washington Post, May 9, 2005.)
- More than three million people worldwide are using some form of the BlackBerry personal e-mail system. (Source: Presstime)
- In May 2005 Google introduces a new AdSense program that invites bloggers to share revenue from targeted Web page ads.
- The NowPublic user-generated participatory news network is founded during 2005.
- Google Earth is launched on June 28, 2005.
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“ Mix, Match, And Mutate: Mash-ups — homespun combinations of mainstream services — are altering the Net.” BusinessWeek, July 25, 2005. - Soundslides, a multimedia program created by Joe Weiss is released during 2005.
- “Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web.”
Yahoo!, 2005. - “We Are the Web.” Kevin Kelly, Wired, August 2005.
- “Craig Newmark: The Net’s Free Force.”
BusinessWeek, Aug. 15, 2005. - “Personal Computer Museum Ontario Canada Opening.” Rogers Television, Sept. 2005. Posted on YouTube.
- “Flash journalism:
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The Apple iTunes store begins offering videos and TV shows in October 2005. (The iTunes music store opened for Mac users on April 28, 2003.) -
Ning is launched in October 2005. Ning helps users create their own social networks. The company was founded a year earlier in October 2004 by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini. (In 1993 Andreessen lead the group of computer programmers who developed the Mosaic browser.) -
Sixty-eight percent of American adults, or about 137 million people, use the Internet, up from 63% one year ago. Thirty-two percent of American adults, or about 65 million people, do not go online. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project) -
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- “The Year of the Podcast.”
Slate, Dec. 30, 2005 - Almost one in five U.S. Internet users owns a camera phone. 40% of teens use a mobile phoneservice. (Source: InfoTrends/CAP Ventures) Additional Resources
- Pew Reports
“The State of Blogging.”
Jan. 2, 2005.
“The Future of the Internet.”
Jan. 9, 2005.
“A decade of adoption: How the internet has woven itself into American life.”
Jan. 25, 2005.
“Tech Term Awareness.”
July 20, 2005.
“Broadband Adoption in the United States: Growing but Slowing.”
Sept. 21, 2005.
“Digital Divisions.”
Oct. 5, 2005. | | THE MEDIA - “Look into cyberspace and the picture for journalism seems fractured. There is real hope in the numbers of people who seek news online, particularly the young, a group that shows scant interest in traditional media. The capability of people to get what they want when they want it, and to manipulate it, edit it and seek more depth, could bring a needed revival to journalism. The economic numbers are also growing – and dramatically – each year.” (Source: “The State of the News Media: Online Section.” Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2005.)
- “Blog-Gate.”
CJR, Jan./Feb. 2005. -
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“ Online to the future.” Ten year anniversary of the Australian newspaper Web site, “The Age.” April 19, 2005. -
More than a dozen newspapers and magazines have recently started podcasts, such as the Denver Post, Lawrence Journal-World, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Philadelphia Daily News, the Washington Post, Newsweek and Forbes. (Source: “ Papers Turn to ‘Podcasting’ In Bid to Draw More Readers.” Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2005.) -
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Many of the multimedia projects posted on news Web sites are built with Flash. As of June 2005, video-capable Flash players were already installed on more than 90% of computers browsing the Web in North America, Europe and Asia. (Source: Macromedia study) -
On July 7, 2005, passengers use their cell phones to photograph the chaos and damage after terrorists bomb the London underground subway and a London bus. Traditional media soon share these images with the world. -
Under extreme conditions, in print and online, the New Orleans Times Picayune and the Biloxi-Gulfport Sun Herald tell the tragic story of Hurricane Katrina. The storm hit southeast Louisiana on August 29, 2005. -
CBS News begins its new blog, Public Eye on Sept. 12, 2005. (Later, on Jan. 3, 2006, ABC World News Tonight anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff will begin their new blog, The World Newser. Charles Gibson, when he becomes the new anchor, contributes to the blog.) -
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A number of media companies made online related acquisitions during 2005. The New York Times purchased About.com; The Washington Post acquired Slate; Dow Jones bought CBS MarketWatch; Knight Ridder, the Tribune Company and Gannett purchased a controlling stake in Topix.net. The largest deal was News Corporation’s $500 million acquisition of the parent company of MySpace.com. -
By the end of 2005, 50 million Americans got news online during a typical day, a sizable increase since 2002. Much of that growth has been fueled by the rise in home broadband connections over the last four years. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project)Awards -
(Source: NAA‘s The Source)
“In 2005, unique visitors to newspaper Web sites represented on average more than one-third (46 million) of all Internet users over the course of a month. Unique visitors jumped 21 percent from January 2005 to December 2005, and page views increased by 43 percent over that period.” |
