It's almost December 31st here in Aussie land so I'm going to jump in with the official New Year's thread. It's been a pretty amazing year for me. VideoSift has been a big part of it.



I'm looking for predictions for 2007. My great big dangerous prediction for 2007 is that YouTube will be surpassed by something better. John Kenneth Galbraith wrote about how incredibly red-hot the telegraph was. Money was pouring in to telegraph companies like crazy, poles going up - stations being built... and then the telephone came out.

I'm getting the same feeling about YouTube et al at the moment. Not to say that the personal video revolution is over, I think it's just getting cranked up. But I'm predicting something that blends the ubiquity of YouTube with the shared bandwidth of BitTorrent, and a peer-to-peer structure.


So have a Sifty, sifty SiftYear. We've got big big Sift plans for 2007, we're looking forward to sharing them with you all.


Also, in the "should old acquaintance be forgot" category, spare a thought for our fallen Siftrades who are MIA -Snake somewhere in LA or New York, JoeDirt, SFJocko (lost in red state territory, somewhere in AZ) and Fletch who removed himself via public comment lobotomy.

(moment of silence)


Now, let's hear those predictions/resolutions.