MITX AWARDS 2006: WE WON!!

November 9th, 2006
MITX 2006 WINNER

Compete.com won the award for Best “Community/Blogs”!

Overall it was a fun night. Acceptance speeches were short, the host [Mike Birbiglia] was pretty funny, and the ceremony finished on time.

Check out blog.compete.com when you get a chance.


MITX Awards this Wednesday!

November 6th, 2006

Hope to see you there!

In the running:

  1. Spherion Career Blog – The Big Time
    Backbone Media for Spherion
  2. Compete Consumer Services
    Compete.com
  3. HeyLetsGo Web site
    Corey McPherson Nash for HeyLetsGo
  4. New Site Launch July 2006
    Gather.com
  5. Complex.com
    Pixel Bridge Inc. for Complex


MITX Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Boston Copley Place Marriott [map]


GooTube: Male Restroom Etiquette

October 25th, 2006

haha!


GooTube: Crazy Frog Bros

October 24th, 2006

WOAH!


Bottom-line: YouTube vs MySpace Growth – No Contest!

October 23rd, 2006
Originally published on the Compete Blog on 18 Oct 2006

When I was writing my Google Video vs. YouTube analysis (maybe someone at Google read the analysis and acted on it ;-)), YouTube’s growth trajectory simply astounded me, which in turn compelled me to compare it against – MySpace.com – another viral phenomenon.

Here is what I discovered:

In the chart above, YouTube when compared to MySpace doesn’t look too impressive. In August, YouTube was less than half the size of MySpace.

Now take a look at the chart below. In this chart, YouTube is IMPRESSIVE! YouTube’s growth has vastly outpaced that of MySpace in its early days. Makes me wonder how much YouTube is going to grow in the next 12, 6, or even 3 months. In August, YouTube was the 18th most popular website in the United States.

Bottom-line:

Will YouTube break the Top 10 within 12 months (~50 million visitors)? I think it is more likely that YouTube will hit that milestone than not. We’ll just have to wait and watch.