The Power of "Me"
As I've written before, and many others on the web have as well, the next generation of the web is all about you - the consumer. Most consumers started with a home page (Yahoo, etc.), then an email address (Hotmail, Gmail, etc.) and are now advancing into news / blog aggregation, etc. Today, and throughout 2007, we're going to see announcements from a broad range of companies launching services that are catered entirely to, and driven by the consumer. The next big wave around the consumer is all about content (and YouTube is just the beginning).
As an example, today we announced the launch of the UK's Channel 4's 4oD service, which lets consumers download television shows, movies and other favorite content. We'll see a lot more of this in the coming months (trust me) - it's a great time to be a consumer!
