Nickname: Mike

Review: Miniclip.com has 30 million users per month worldwide, more than Facebook.

Date reviewed: Dec 14, 2006 10:14 PM

Nickname: Lawrence Haye

Review: The next step will most likely be internet TV not to be confused with IPTV(a delivery model for TV). The big 4 free TV channels provide content supported by advertisment using this model there is no reason why Goo-Tube can't become the fifth network combining Google's advertisment prowess with YouTube's content and social network. Allowing users too create personalized channels of content paid for by video ads. Google + YouTube= Internet TV

Date reviewed: Oct 16, 2006 12:26 AM

Nickname: FJ

Review: The obvious solution for the media companies is to get into the retail business for their content, instead of overpaying for a bubble-wrapped start-up or cooking up a deal to pump up somebody else's site. ABC, NBC, CBS and MLB all have the right idea; they have the bait, they can learn to fish; they don't have to roll over and play dead for the likes of Google just because it takes a while to draw customers. The whole point of the Internet is disintermediation, no? Well, put it to use. Cut the middleman out of the deal and do it yourself or end up where the music studios are in relation to Apple, letting the tail wag the dog. The technology to build a YouTube site is off-the-shelf and readily available from Microsoft and others. Surely it is no accident that Google's plunge into YouTube came right after Microsoft announced their Soapbox beta.

Date reviewed: Oct 12, 2006 11:54 PM

Nickname: guy

Review: The days of John Malone doing a reverse split and losing 90% of the stock value are over and so is old media. It takes a leader like Google with brains and money to make an acquisition. So where are the wireless roll-ups? Where is search with tm words and pictures? Where are mobile mashups? The world is asleep and Murdoch will alienate MySpace members with NewsCorp's Fox content and bureaucracy and financial clout and business savvy. Remember friendster? As the USA is no longer a world leader we can now all look outside the USA for the next big thing.

Date reviewed: Oct 12, 2006 4:41 PM

Nickname: Robin

Review: Seems like micro cities are popping up everywhere. Citypixel.com is really the best of the breed if this is to be the next big thing. Facebook is like stalkernet and it takes forever to load profiles on MySpace.

Date reviewed: Oct 12, 2006 3:50 PM

Nickname: a head

Review: However, what if the uploaders shared the advertising revenue?

Date reviewed: Oct 12, 2006 3:04 PM

Nickname: martin smithers

Review: If a site like Youtube is worth that much money, just imagine what wonderful site like BusinessWeek.com must be worth! You guys would be squillionaires!

Date reviewed: Oct 12, 2006 2:33 PM

Nickname: Kerry

Review: Watch out, citypixel.com and stuffspace.com are moving up fast! But my fav is still FaceBook, clean, easy to use and lots of people that you can find easy.

Date reviewed: Oct 12, 2006 2:03 PM

Nickname: jd2009

Review: The YouTube acquisition price seems really, really high to me. Other than some decent ad revenue, I can't see how you're going to further monetize this property - do you think traditional video content creators are just going to sit back and say "yeah, you can stream our content on your site and take a nice cut of the ad revenue too"? To me, YouTube is a cool place to find some intersting videos made by average people like me. Try to make some extra cash by changing/extending that concept in the wrong way and you'll lose a big portion of your audience. I think the MySpace acquisition will be a much beter investment in the long run. It's basically your online equivalent of Starbucks. THE place online to hang out, meet friends, do some reading or write about yourself.

Date reviewed: Oct 12, 2006 1:42 PM