Web & Flow: The List
Posted on November 20, 2009
As preparation for our stop-motion animation project on the history of web companies in San Francisco, we’re putting together a timeline of companies and the years they showed up. Please drop us a comment with anyone we’ve forgotten or to add your company. We’re not saying everyone will make it in the final video, but we don’t want to forget anything important!
| Organic | 1993 |
| CNET Networks Inc | 1993 |
| Studio Archetype | ? |
| Craigslist | 1995 |
| Ave a Razorfish | 1995 |
| Salon.com | 1995 |
| Hot Studio | 1997 |
| Esurance Inc | 1998 |
| Salesforce.com | 1999 |
| Linden Lab | 1999 |
| Live Journal | 1999 |
| Stamen Design | 2001 |
| Adaptive Path | 2001 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | 2001 |
| Six Apart Headquarters | 2001 |
| Mule Design Studio | 2001 |
| Three Rings Design | 2001 |
| Zinio | 2001 |
| Technorati | 2002 |
| Bolt | Peters User Experience | 2002 |
| Yelp, Inc. | 2004 |
| Digg Inc | 2004 |
| Flickr | 2004 |
| Bit Torrent Inc | 2004 |
| Current TV LLC | 2005 |
| Blurb Inc | 2005 |
| Metaweb Technologies Inc | 2005 |
| Kiva.org | 2005 |
| Bebo Inc | 2005 |
| 2006 | |
| Kongregate | 2006 |
| Justin.tv | 2006 |
| Big in Europe (CompFight) | 2006 |
| Zynga | 2007 |
| Get Satisfaction | 2007 |
| SlideShare Inc | 2007 |
| 80/20 Studio | 2008 |
| Kicker Studio | 2008 |
| Mochi Media | 2009 |
| Small Batch Inc. | 2009 |
Dec 11, 2009
Your list covers just two angles of the web scene in SF, and perhaps that on purpose. There’s design agencies and there’s startups. For more completeness, I wonder if you should include web enablers like Laughing Squid and Engine Yard, development firms like Pivotal Labs and media companies like MySpace and Wired.
Was ZDNet in SF prior to the CNET merger?
Also, just for fun, have a couple of dot-bomb blow ups appear for 3 frames ;-)
Dec 14, 2009
Clicktime.com started in 1999. We spun off of Mann Consulting which was in SOMA by 1995, building web and multimedia projects during the early days in South Park (and long before the first boom/bust).
Dec 14, 2009
[...] HELP US WITH HISTORY » [...]
Dec 30, 2009
LookSmart. Founded in Australia by Evan and Tracy Thornley, moved to SF in 1997 (?). Right before the dotcom crash, a pretender to search supremacy, with an eye on Yahoo! as the company to beat. Still in business at http://www.looksmart.com but having morphed from a search engine developed by human editors into a search ad network. When I worked there from 1998 to 2000, we were right there in the thick of things off South Park, in the fantastic, renovated warehouse on 2nd Street that the company still occupies. Would you want images of the old home pages that we developed way back when?