2010 to 2011 Timeline Outline
Biological Journals to Require Data-Archiving
(January 2010)
"The Never-Ending Language Learning System"
(January 2010)
"Whatever Happened to Second Life?"
(January 4, 2010)
3 Billion iPhone and iPod Apps Were Downloaded in less than 18 Months
(January 5, 2010)
"The World's First Full-Size Robotic Girlfriend"
(January 9, 2010)
After the Earthquake in Haiti, Donating by SMS Text
(January 13, 2010)
World Texting Competition is Won by Koreans
(January 14, 2010)
Exploit Code for Attacks on Google Released on the Internet
(January 15, 2010)
Introduction of Apple's iPad
(January 27, 2010)
Social Media Interviews the President
(February 1, 2010)
Facebook has 400,000,000 Users
(February 4, 2010)
Modifiable eBook Editions of Textbooks
(February 22, 2010)
The First Superman Comic Book sells for $1,000,000.
(February 22, 2010)
The Sociology of Wikipedians
(March 2010)
The First Brain-Computer Interface Product Offered for Sale
(March 2 –
March 6, 2010)
Google Pulls its Search Engine Out of Mainland China
(March 22, 2010)
The Vatican Library Plans the Scanning of all its Manuscripts into the FITS Document Format
(March 24, 2010)
The Holy Grail of Holy Grails, Comicbook-wise
(March 29, 2010)
Probably the First Fully Visually Satisfying Interactive eBook
(April 5, 2010)
U.S. Book Sales in 2009: $23.9 Billion
(April 7, 2010)
The First Pulitizer Prizes for Internet Journalism
(April 12, 2010)
Google Announces "Replay" for Twitter
(April 14, 2010)
The Library of Congress to Preserve All "Tweets"
(April 14, 2010)
"The Data-Driven Life"
(April 20, 2010)
Google Acknowledges that it Collected Wi-Fi Information Along with Cartographic and Imaging Information
(April 27 –
June 10, 2010)
Using the Twitter Archive for Historical Research
(April 30, 2010)
General Statistics on the U.S. Book Publishing Industry
(May 6, 2010)
Google Introduces Translation Feature for Google Goggles
(May 6, 2010)
The First Internet Addresses in Non-Latin Characters
(May 6, 2010)
The Most Successful Art Forger Ever
(May 12 –
August 22, 2010)
Cell Phones Are Now Used More for Data than Speech
(May 13, 2010)
After Five Years, More Than Two Billion Views Per Day
(May 16, 2010)
Social Networking Added to Reading Electronic Books
(June 12, 2010)
Flipboard, "Your Personalized, Social Magazine"
(July 2010)
Spam Declines from 90% of Email Traffic to Only 72.9%
(July 2010 –
June 2011)
"The First Image of the Entire Universe"
(July 5, 2010)
For the First Time E-books Outsell Digital Books on Amazon.com
(July 19, 2010)
Facebook has 500,000,000 Users.
(July 21, 2010)
Wikileaks Installs an "Insurance File"
(July 29, 2010)
Data on Mobile Networks is Doubling Each Year
(August 1, 2010)
"Every Two Days We Create as Much Information as We Did up to 2003"
(August 4, 2010)
There are "129,864,880" Different Books in the World
(August 5, 2010)
The 2010 Social Networking "World Map"
(August 5, 2010)
Google Introduces "Google Instant"
(September 8, 2010)
eBook Edition Released Prior to Hardcover Edition
(September 8, 2010)
The First Recording of Ancient Asian Melodies
(September 15, 2010)
Possibly the First Academic Library with No Physical Books
(September 19, 2010)
NCBI Introduces Images, a Database of More than 2.5 Million Images in Biomedical Literature
(October 2010)
Instagram is Founded
(October 2010 –
December 17, 2012)
"The Social Network"
(October 1, 2010)
Google Books Scanned More than 15 Million Books in 6 Years
(October 14, 2010)
Paperbecause.com Makes the Case for Using Paper
(October 27, 2010)
3G Wireless Telephony in Mt. Everest Region of Nepal
(October 29, 2010)
Twitter Has 175 Million Users
(October 30, 2010)
8,900,000 Robots are Operating World Wide
(November 2010)
The First MRI Video of Childbirth
(November 2010 –
June 2012)
Kinect for Xbox
(November 4, 2010)
Towards a New Digital Legal Information Environment
(November 9, 2010)
An Apple 1 Computer Sells for $210,000
(November 23, 2010)
$1,300,000,000 Verdict in Software Copyright Infringement Suit Partially Vacated
(November 23, 2010 –
September 1, 2011)
The Wikileaks U. S. Diplomatic Cables Leak
(November 28 –
December 8, 2010)
Google Earth 6: Enhanced 3D, 3D Trees, Enhanced Historical Imagery
(November 30, 2010)
The Google Earth Engine
(December 2, 2010)
Seventy Online Databases that "Define Our Planet"
(December 3, 2010)
The Google eBookstore Opens
(December 6, 2010)
The Website of MasterCard is Hacked by Wikileaks Supporters
(December 8, 2010)
Bestsellers on eBook Readers: Romance Novels
(December 9, 2010)
U.S. E-Book Sales Predicted to Reach $1,000,000,000 in 2010
(December 11, 2010)
The Digital Public Library of America
(December 13, 2010)
Culturomics Introduced by the Cultural Observatory
(December 16, 2010)
3D Maps for Android Mobil Devices
(December 16, 2010)
An Interactive Pop-Up Children's Book App for the iPhone & iPad
(December 16, 2010)
eBooks Represent 9-10% of Trade-Book Sales
(December 23, 2010)
Founder of Wikileaks to Publish his Autobiography
(December 27, 2010)
Facebook is the Most Searched for and Most Visited Website in America
(December 29, 2010)
