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.

Michael Connolly, a product unit manager on MSN Spaces, adds onto the China discussion with a post titled “Running a Service in China.” Here’s a quote from his post: “In China, there is a unique issue for our entire industry: there are certain aspects of speech in China that are regulated by the government.  We’ve made a choice to run a service in China, and to do that, we need to adhere to local regulations and laws. “

I was talking with Jason Calacanis (founder of Weblogsinc.com) yesterday and he told me that AOL was sending a bunch of bloggers to CES to cover that, particularly on their Engadget site. The next few days on Engadget and its competitors, Gizmodo, and Gear Live, should be darn interesting.