The big thing in 2006 to be communication?

Don Dodge, former exec at AltaVista and Napster, tells us what the next big thing in 2006 will be. YouTube is something that’s just gotten on my radar screen. I’ve seen lots of blogs lately saying “I love YouTube.” Video is big this year. I got my video camera here at CES. Will have to see what I find.

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  1. There’s also putfile.com and video.google.com, although both have some bizarre search relavancy algorithms which makes for some interesting hits.

    Hope this encourages some news sites to quit requiring membership just to see RM slideshows.

  2. There’s also putfile.com and video.google.com, although both have some bizarre search relavancy algorithms which makes for some interesting hits.

    Hope this encourages some news sites to quit requiring membership just to see RM slideshows.

  3. The Web: Women vs. men online
    CHICAGO, Jan. 4 (UPI) — Men and women use the Internet rather differently, with women employing e-mail more often than men to communicate with family and friends, but with men logging online more frequently to obtain news or sports updates, experts tell United Press International’s The Web.

    A report released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project indicates that men pursue many Internet activities more intensively than women and that men are still “first out of the blocks” in trying the latest technologies. By Gene Koprowski

  4. The Web: Women vs. men online
    CHICAGO, Jan. 4 (UPI) — Men and women use the Internet rather differently, with women employing e-mail more often than men to communicate with family and friends, but with men logging online more frequently to obtain news or sports updates, experts tell United Press International’s The Web.

    A report released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project indicates that men pursue many Internet activities more intensively than women and that men are still “first out of the blocks” in trying the latest technologies. By Gene Koprowski

  5. When are you going to fix the bad video quality for mac users at channel 9. I would watch a lot more of it, if it would stream in a better quality. I just don’t want to download the whole movie every time just to see in an adequate quality.

  6. When are you going to fix the bad video quality for mac users at channel 9. I would watch a lot more of it, if it would stream in a better quality. I just don’t want to download the whole movie every time just to see in an adequate quality.

  7. The Next Big Thing in 2006

    It is all about communication. I started thinking about the highlights of 2005 and what might be big in 2006. As I synthesized the list, the common thread was communication and connection. Blogs were big in 2005 and will continue to explode in 2006. T…

  8. CES summarized in one word: video

    Lost Remote post: New TV software will blow away today’s TV CNET: The Next Big Things Via Scobelizer/Don Dodge: The Next Big Thing: Communication