Checking My 2007 Predictions »

By Rob Safuto on Dec 29, 2007 in Social Media | 0 Comments

I made some predictions at the end of 2006 in a post titled, The Free Video Meal Will End In 2007. Well did it? Sort of. Let’s take a look at each one.
Prediction #1: Some of the players mentioned above will not exist by the end of 2007. They will either go away as a [...]

The Free Video Meal Will End In 2007 »

By Rob Safuto on Dec 31, 2006 in Analysis, Social Media, Video Blogging | 2 Comments

Back in April Mike Arrington of TechCrunch opined that online video sites were “breeding like rabbits.” By the end of the year we had the huge $1.5 billion acquisition of YouTube by Google. Can anyone deny that 2006 was the year that online video came of age?
We’ve also saw the rise of sites like Blip.tv, [...]