Tom Guarriello marks four years since his first YouTube vlog, noting how video blogging went from a niche activity with almost no community to millions of creators posting daily life, cooking, and cat videos. He celebrates Video Blogging Week 2010 and the platform's rapid growth.
Hey, it's Tom Guarriello. It's Video Blogging Week 2010 on the internet, and today is the 4th anniversary of my very first video blog on YouTube. Now, 4 years ago when I started blogging and when many of you who are watching this started blogging there was no Video Blogging Week. There was barely video blogging. Um, and imagine— none of us could have imagined where we would have gotten to in 4 years. Millions of people now making videos, chronicling their lives, fooling around, cooking, cats, you know, all of that stuff, all of that stuff on the internet. Because we now have the capacity to communicate with one another. And it's only been 4 years for me, and, you know, maybe some of you have been around a little longer than that, but I think that's probably about it, about 4 years. Imagine 4 years from now as that curve continues to grow and more and more people discover how interesting it is to connect with one another using this medium that we're just now starting to understand. There are more and more great experiments taking place on— in video nowadays on the internet, and I just think it's great. And so happy Video Blogging Week 2010, and as always, see ya out there.
