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and finding the best alternatives along the way
Average Lifespan: 6 Years
Total Products: 27,804

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And their top alternatives on the right

  1. Field Trip

    Share your Basecamp activity in Slack

    🚀Sep 2012 - ⚰May 2015

    Lifespan: over 2 years

    Categories: Project Management, Productivity, iPhone, Events

    Field Trip Alternatives

    1. The New Minbox - Organize and collaborate across clouds
    2. Kifi for Teams - Knowledge sharing and collaboration for teams
    3. Flow - Stop managing projects from your inbox.
    4. » All Field Trip alternatives
  2. Orkut

    Orkut for Android, free and safe download. Orkut latest version: The official Orkut app for Android. Orkut is a nice, free multiplatform program (also available for iPhone) that is part of the categ..

    🚀Jan 2004 - ⚰Sep 2014

    Lifespan: over 10 years

    Categories: Social Network, Social Networks, Decentralized Social Network, Community Platform

    Orkut Alternatives

    1. Friendica - Decentralisation - Privacy - Interoperability
    2. Diaspora - The online social world where you are in control.
    3. Facebook - Connect with friends, family and other people you know. Share photos and videos, send messages and get updates.
    4. » All Orkut alternatives
  3. Google TV

    Google TV is a discontinued smart TV platform from Google co-developed by Intel, Sony, and Logitech.

    🚀Oct 2010 - ⚰Jun 2014

    Lifespan: over 3 years

    Categories: TV Application, Online TV, TV, Video Streaming

    Google TV Alternatives

    1. Disney+ - Disney's new streaming service
    2. Apple TV - New Apple TV running tvOS
    3. Netflix - See what's next. Watch anywhere. Cancel anytime.
    4. » All Google TV alternatives
  4. Google Currents

    Google's enterprise replacement for Google+

    🚀Dec 2011 - ⚰Nov 2013

    Lifespan: almost 2 years

    Categories: Communication, Project Management, Enterprise Communication, Group Chat & Notifications

    Google Currents Alternatives

    1. Workplace by Facebook - Connect everyone in your company and turn ideas into action.
    2. Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams provides the enterprise-level security, compliance and management features you expect from Office 365, including broad support for compliance standards, and eDiscovery and legal hold for channels, chats, and files.
    3. Skype for Slack - Move your slack discussions to a group skype call
    4. » All Google Currents alternatives
  5. Google Checkout

    Google Checkout was an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. It was discontinued on November 20, 2013 and the service moved to Google Wallet.

    🚀Jun 2006 - ⚰Nov 2013

    Lifespan: over 7 years

    Reason: Moved to "Google Wallet"

    Categories: Online Payments

  6. iGoogle

    iGoogle is your personalized Google page.

    🚀May 2005 - ⚰Nov 2013

    Lifespan: over 8 years

    Categories: Bookmark Manager, Favorites, Bookmarks, Startpage

    iGoogle Alternatives

    1. Netvibes - First personalized dashboard publishing platform for the Web. Digital life managment, Widget distribution services and brand observation rooms.
    2. start.me - A Modern-day bookmark manager. A place for your favorites. A news feed (RSS) reader. A browser startpage. A portal for your team.
    3. Protopage - The best iGoogle alternative. Chris Pirillo calls Protopage "The best designed".
    4. » All iGoogle alternatives
  7. Google Reader

    Google Reader was an RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs.

    🚀Oct 2005 - ⚰Jul 2013

    Lifespan: over 7 years

    Reason: Declined use

    Categories: RSS Reader, Feed Reader, News & Books, RSS

    News References

    1. 📰 Google has announced yet another spring cleaning of its various services, and this time around, the company is giving the axe to its Google Reader RSS aggregator. The service, which originally launched back in 2005, will be officially put out to pasture on July 1st, 2013. Reader has gone through a number of iterations, but it had not been significantly updated in a long time. ~ theverge.com
  8. Google Talk

    An instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication.

    🚀Aug 2005 - ⚰May 2013

    Lifespan: over 7 years

    Categories: Communication, Internet Calls, Chat, Group Chat & Notifications

    Google Talk Alternatives

    1. Skype - Stay in touch with your family and friends for free on Skype. Download Skype today to chat and call on desktop and mobile.
    2. Trillian - Trillian is a decentralized and federated instant messaging platform that lets your whole company send private and group messages, keep tabs on what co-workers are doing, share files, and much more.
    3. Adium - Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.
    4. » All Google Talk alternatives
  9. Picnik

    Picnik is an online photo editing service that allows users to edit images, add styles to imported images and all the basic editing tools including cropping and resizing an image.

    🚀Jan 2007 - ⚰Apr 2013

    Lifespan: over 6 years

    Categories: Photo & Video, Marketing Videos, Video, Video Maker

    Picnik Alternatives

    1. Bitstrips - Bitstrips is fun and engaging app that lets you create your own comic strips right from your mobile device. It's essentially a social network that allows its users to share self-made comics as opposed to photos, memes, videos, or other posts.
    2. Mixbook - Mixbook is an online photo design tool and product service that allows customers to design customized photo books, cards, calendars, and photo prints through its online interface.
    3. Flyr - Today's airfares, tomorrow's bargain.
    4. » All Picnik alternatives
  10. Google Mini

    Google Enterprise Search helps employees and customers find what they need, fast. Get more out of your intranet and extranet.

    🚀Dec 2007 - ⚰Dec 2012

    Lifespan: about 5 years

    Categories: Market Research, Chatbots, AI Assistant, Business Intelligence

    Google Mini Alternatives

    1. Google Trends - Explore Google trending search topics with Google Trends.
    2. Echo - Golang HTTP server framework
    3. Google Home - Set up, manage, and control your Chromecast, Chromecast Audio and Google Home devices.
    4. » All Google Mini alternatives
  11. OpenRefine

    OpenRefine is a tool for working with messy data: cleaning it, transforming it and extending it with web services and external data.

    🚀Nov 2010 - ⚰Oct 2012

    Lifespan: almost 2 years

    Categories: Big Data, Data Dashboard, Databases, Data Cleansing

    OpenRefine Alternatives

    1. Refinator.xyz - Refinator.xyz: Your data's best friend. Tackle messy datasets effortlessly with powerful data cleansing tools, privacy-first features, and seamless format conversions, all on your desktop
    2. Modern CSV - A CSV editor/viewer
    3. Trifacta - Data Transformation Platform.
    4. » All OpenRefine alternatives
  12. Sparrow

    Sparrow is a minimal e-mail application designed to keep things simple and efficient.

    🚀Feb 2011 - ⚰Oct 2012

    Lifespan: over 1 year

    Categories: Game Engine, Game Development, 3D Game Engine, Customer Service

    Sparrow Alternatives

    1. BitBucket - Bitbucket is a free code hosting site for Mercurial and Git. Manage your development with a hosted wiki, issue tracker and source code.
    2. Amazon GameLift - Amazon Gamelift is a dedicated server platform for online video gaming. Notable customers include High Horse Entertainment, Wargaming Mobile, Gearbox Software, Aon Interactive and Proletariat, Inc... read more.
    3. LibGDX - Libgdx is a Java game development framework that provides a unified API that works across all...
    4. » All Sparrow alternatives

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