As predicted, Youtube buzzes right off the scale
In December, I made a number of 'predictions' for 2006.
So far, I think I'm doing pretty well...On the 'YouTube' prediction I wrote:
"Youtube will buzz right off the scale"
To be honest, this really was no brainer...if you too played with YouTube at all last year, it would be clear that it was destined for great things. As it's turned out, it has been a phenomenal year for the company, but they've surpassed even my expectations, by about a billion. Mark Cuban thinks Google is crazy. Maybe so - but maybe anyone who wants to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful has to be.
(btw, congrats to Michael Arrington for the confirmation of the rumour)
Update: Check out this video of the two founders of YouTube announcing the Google aqcuisition on, er, YouTube.
Update II: Scoble asks: "What if Microsoft had bought Google?"
Update III: Here's the conf call transcript.